Leapin' Leppard
It's hardly unusual that Def Leppard would hit the road in support of a new disc.
But the latest release by the British band that spent the 1980s as king of the hard-rock hill is an extraordinary 14-track '70s glam-rock tribute titled "Yeah."
On it, Def Leppard covers songs from Bowie to Blondie, stopping along the way to take in T. Rex, Badfinger, Sweet, Mott the Hoople, the Kinks and Roxy Music.
"We're showing our roots," says guitarist Vivian Campbell, who cut his teeth with metal acts Ronnie James Dio and Rainbow in the 1970s before joining Def Leppard in 1992 after the death of Steve Clark.