Major-league talent
Thirteen years is a long time to be "the new guy," but Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell is just that.
Campbell joined the English rock band in 1992, after the death of founding guitarist Steve Clark. He had played with Whitesnake and Dio, a couple of pretty well- known rock 'n' roll outfits, but he's found his home with Def Leppard.
"When I was in Whitesnake, there were five different guys from five different nations," Campbell, 42, said. "There was an age disparity of about 17 years between some of the guys and myself. We were from different eras and cultures. The only thing we really had in common was the music.
"With Def Leppard, there's a unity there. We're all within a few years of each other. We grew up listening to the same songs, and we all wanted to play guitar, drums, sing, be in a band. We had the same media and the same sense of humor."