East Coast Live is available now, you can pick it up for yourself here.

GuitarWorld.com presents the exclusive premiere of the newest live video from Phil Collen’s ferocious blues band.

 

Delta Deep—the bluesy side project from Def Leppard’s Phil Collen, Stone Temple Pilot’s Robert DeLeo, frontwoman Debbi Blackwell-Cook and drummer Forrest Robinson—just released a new live album, East Coast Live. To celebrate, the band teamed up with Guitar World to premiere the video for one of the album’s best tracks, “Whiskey.” You can watch it above.

“I originally came up with this chord sequence about forty years ago, when I learnt all of these cool jazz chords,” Collen said of “Whiskey.” “However, it didn’t really have any relevance until we started writing the first Delta Deep album then I just started singing ‘I found me this place, where the whiskey drinks the blues’ and Debbi Blackwell-Cook just saw the whole story of the song totally mapped out for her, as she’d just lost her son to gun violence, and it wrote itself for her.”

 

Just announced! Due to overwhelming demand we have added a second London show at the SSE Arena, Wembley on 18 December. 
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Late 2018 will see the band deliver what many UK and Eire fans have been waiting for… the“HYSTERIA” album performed in full plus other Def Leppard hits across eleven arena dates in December 2018 with special guest CHEAP TRICK!

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The band’s digital song sales jumped 1,422 percent on Jan. 19, while the act’s on-demand audio streams rose 379 percent.

On-demand audio streams of Def Leppard’s catalog of songs rose 379 percent in the first day of its wide availability on streaming services on Friday (Jan. 19), according to Nielsen Music.

The rock band, which had been a long-running holdout on major streaming services before 2018 with the majority of its catalog unavailable to the most consumers, earned 596,000 on-demand audio streams for its songs on Jan. 19. Additionally, Def Leppard videos received 482,000 clicks, a boost of 47 percent.

In all, Def Leppard’s music — audio and video combined — was streamed 1.1 million times on on-demand services on Jan. 19, up from 453,000 in Jan. 18, 73 percent of which was via video views. Conversely, 55 percent of the band’s Jan. 19 streams came from on-demand audio services….

READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON BILLBOARD.COM HERE

Attention UK & Ireland: pre-sale tickets for the Hysteria Tour go on sale Wednesday, 24 January at 9AM local for Rock Brigade Fan Club Members! Sign up here for access: defleppardrockbrigade.com

Check out this great new interview with Rick Allen & Jim Kerr of Q104.3 New York!

“I honestly feel like he was not only the first proper guitar player but also the best…”

2018 is going to be a big year for Phil Collen. Right now, he’s on the G3 tour with Joe Satriani and John Petrucci – an invitation only awarded to the finest axemen on planet earth, joining an elite list that includes Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Johnson, Paul Gilbert, Guthrie Govan and more. 

But comes year’s end, he’ll be conquering UK arenas with classic rock legends Def Leppard, performing one of the biggest-selling rock albums of all-time – 1987 masterpiece Hysteria – in its entirety. While most of his bandmates would count the Sheffield date as their hometown show, the Hackney-born guitarist has his eyes on the London O2 Arena date – headlining the capital’s biggest indoor venue for the first time in his career…

READ THE FULL STORY ON MUSIC RADAR HERE

Joe Elliott and Neal Schon are LIVE with Eddie Trunk on Sirius XM to answer all your questions about their bands’ upcoming joint tour! Check it out below.

On this day 35 years ago, we released Pyromania! What was your favorite song on the album?
Now available for streaming HERE

 

Check it out! Def Leppard is featured on the homepage of USA Today.

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Exclusive: Def Leppard’s entire catalog to stream beginning Friday

Def Leppard has finally given Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music and Amazon and seven other digital music platforms  the OK to Pour Some Sugar on listeners: The British hard rock act’s entire catalog will be available to stream on Friday.

What took them so long?

For one, streaming hadn’t yet been invented  when they signed their last record deal, and two, they weren’t hurting for money.

Thanks to non-stop touring and steady sales of their back catalog over the course of the last decade, singer Joe Elliott says, “We were doing OK and we weren’t really missing anything.“

Plus, Elliott, 58, and his bandmates also wanted to wait out “the digital streaming thing” a little and get a better sense of whether the business model was here to stay or a short-term fad. (He notes that Def Leppard were also iTunes holdouts who didn’t put any of their tracks online until their first live album, 2011’s Mirror Ball.)

READ THE FULL STORY ON USA TODAY HERE

 

Read Def Leppard’s Latest Feature on Rolling Stone HERE

Def Leppard Explain Why They Finally Embraced Streaming
“We weren’t going to be victims of the industry,” singer Joe Elliott says

For years, Def Leppard were well situated among the ranks of Garth Brooks and Tool as holdouts on streaming services – artists with large, multiplatinum catalogues that still didn’t feel comfortable with the pros and cons of subscription-based music schemes. The hard rockers had long been at war with their label, Universal, about the topic, even recording self-described “forgeries” of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Rock of Ages” that were self-released so they would earn what they considered a fair wage. “We just sent [the label] a letter saying, ‘No matter what you want, you are going to get “no” as an answer, so don’t ask,'” Elliott said in 2012.

But things have changed. Beginning Friday, fans can stream all of the band’s major releases, going back to their 1979 debut, The Def Leppard E.P., on all major streaming services. “We needed the right deal for the band,” frontman Joe Elliott tells Rolling Stone. “We weren’t going to be victims of the industry. We signed our deal with Mercury many, many decades ago when there was no digital part of the record deal. So when [our contract ended] in 2009, we were free to do whatever we wanted to do. We were so busy touring and not worrying about the back catalogue – because people were still buying CDs – that we weren’t sure about [embracing] streaming.”

Read the full story on Rolling Stone HERE