Old Interview: Gordon Shearer with Rick Savage

GS: So lets start off with the tour. How's it been going? How have the crowds been?

RS: Crowds have been great…..crowds have been really good. We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album. It's pretty obvious that the people who are coming are people that would have come if we had a new album or not. I mean, a lot of them may have bought the album but we are not really promoting the album any more as such. Certainly as far as the public are concerned. They're just coming because it's Def Leppard, not because it's Def Leppard and they've got a new album to promote or whatever.

GS: What about the numbers?

GS: So the idea of coming to arenas has been vindicated then?

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