Def Leppard earning respect again

In July last year, Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen were holding court in a studio, telling a roomful of journalists that their new album, X, was made with an ear for the charts.

A year later, in advance of the band's Canadian tour, what does Collen say about the disc that was meant to find a place beside 1987's mammoth Hysteria in every home?

"Some you win and some you don't."

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