This Leppard changes spots
The man who belted out songs such as Hysteria and Love Bites that rocked the Billboard charts for weeks is a trite sheepish when you mention how he lip-synced his greatest hits in 1998, for a show in Mumbai. "Yes it was quite shoddy, but we were fed wrong information right before the show and were told that we were to mime for a 30-minute TV show," says Joe Elliott, lead vocalist of Def Leppard. "Which is why we want to tour India and make amends," he adds, saying that no promoter has approached them yet.
On a promotional tour across America and Europe for their tenth studio album X, the singer claims that the band has lost none of its Pyromania fire. "In fact, we've never been better than this. Look at every other band that has been around as long as we have, and you see falling hair and expanding waistlines. But we're here to stay," says Elliott.