North American syndicated rock radio show
"In The Studio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands" celebrates the 30th anniversary of
DEF LEPPARD's 10-times-platinum album
"Pyromania" with lead singer
Joe Elliott, bassist
Rick Savage and guitarist
Phil Collen.
The birth of
MTV would definitely aid in fueling the success of
DEF LEPPARD's third album, which lit the fuse for the pop metal bands so successful throughout the remainder of the decade, but as
Elliott reveals to
"In The Studio" host
Redbeard, it was a challenge throughout the recording sessions to ignite those soon-to-be anthemic songs.
"About halfway through the
'Pyromania' album, I first noticed that it was getting difficult to create something that was as good as the top-notch artists," he said. "We weren't that little band from Sheffield anymore, we had to be better and bigger than
BOSTON,
FOREIGNER… you name it."
The
DEF LEPPARD "Pyromania" "In The Studio" interview is available now to stream using the audio player below.
In a recent online post,
Elliott commented on
"Pyromania"'s 30th anniversary: "Wow... I can't believe it's 30 years since
'Pyromania' came out! It had been a labor of love to make (little did we know in comparison to
'Hysteria', it was a piece of cake!). Multiple studios in London, one guitarist out, one guitarist in, equipment breakdowns, tapes turning transparent because of the thousands of times they were rewound and fast forwarded for multiple overdubs, but we found our sound on this record with the help of a great producer in
Mutt Lange, the new studio technology that we eagerly embraced (unlike many of our peers) and an incredible enthusiasm to 'make a record no one else had ever made. Whether we did or didn't isn't important. What is, is that we had made the record WE wanted to make, it had been percolating in our DNA for six years! We finally sounded like the 'us' we wanted to be!!!"
DEF LEPPARD "Pyromania" "In The Studio" interview (audio):
