Joe Elliott: might not be making a lot of use of his free bus pass.
Portrait: Ross Halfin
On February 7, 1984, Def Leppard’s year-long Pyromania tour ended in Bangkok, Thailand. Forty years on, the British hard-rock institution have no fewer than seven songs from that record - plus brand new 2024 single Just Like ’73, featuring Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello - in the set-list for their Summer Stadium Tour, a co-headlining run across the US with Journey. Leppard Frontman Joe Elliott gives us the lowdown on that and more.
We didn’t have a ‘Def Leppard ft. Tom Morello’ single on our 2024 bingo card. How did that come about?