Columbus Alive Interviewd Phil Collen

The Columbus Alive gave a positive outlook on Def Leppard's upcoming album whose title is still yet to be set in stone as the band continues to tour and possibly working on the new album in between gigs.

Columbus Alive said that what you hear on the new CD will be much like what you hear on this tour and for some bands, it's hardly news but for Def Leppard this could be a revelation. Perhaps this is the album that will make people sit up and take notice, much like the album that went multi platinum Hysteria and made them a huge success. However, I think in order to achieve the success Hysteria had and more, the album name, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge just won't do it.

Def Leppard has quite a challenge ahead of them if they want to even equal Hysteria. Between Pyromania and Hysteria the band sold over 15 million albums and in order for this new album to come even close, they will have to work their asses off. Phil Collen says there are no ballads on this album. Def Leppard is well known for their amazing ballads such as Love Bites, Long Long Way to go and of course the ever popular Two Steps Behind which is always a nice acoustic performance at a Def Leppard show but let's hope that they stuck to their roots and not try and be like other bands because the reasons Def Leppard are a huge success is because they hold a unique sound and there is only ONE band that sounds like Def Leppard and that is Def Leppard.

I've always been a fan of their music and I have my favorites and don't hate anything they do BUT in order for Def Leppard to achieve super status like they did with Hysteria, they will have to be three times as good and actually lock the door behind them until this album is done to sheer perfection and write, rewrite and rewrite again to make it perfect BUT with Def Leppard, perfection is their goal.

The real judge will be the fans and even if fans find it the best Album Def Leppard will ever do again, one of the keys to their success will be promotion. The lack of promotion for their last four albums has been pathetic. With the bands own management pulling the promotion for their album X , cutting off the oxygen supply and ending its life with one swift motion and the barely surviving Slang album, even if the new album is forty times better than Hysteria or Pyromania or High and Dry, if the management doesn't get it promoted, it will be dead before it can draw a breath and its up to us too to promote the new albums because it is a team effort with Def Leppard's talents and our admiration of those talents.

After all, if they weren't talented, there would be no Def Leppard. The radio stations are also responsible for promotion as well and most radio stations when it comes to bands like Def Leppard, live in the past and won't play anything past Hysteria and think Def Leppard is a band of the past when that is far from the truth.

The radio stations live in the time when Def Leppard became a household name and think that they stopped making albums after Hysteria. The fans need to call the radio stations and music channels on TV and demand Def Leppard, demand they play something that is not a ghost of the past and make them aware that Def Leppard HAS made albums past Hysteria and make them listen and perhaps then, they will emerge into the present and once more make Def Leppard a band that has always been a Superstar, a Super star again. To read the article from Alive, click this link. ALIVE