When the rest of the band nervously visited him in the hospital, he immediately launched into his plans for playing one-armed. The pair put Allen’s severed arm in the ice and rushed him to the hospital - and the nurse and the policeman ended up getting married.Īn operation to reattach the arm failed when it became infected, but Allen barely missed a beat. But in a weird stroke of good fortune, he was found by a nurse who happened to have a cooler of ice that she was taking to a party.
The car accident that severed the left arm of drummer Rick Allen was horribly unlucky, of course. Rick Allen’s tragic accident spawned an unlikely romance. This type of stuff didn’t happen before with total strangers.” The band ultimately created a special backstage “boiler pass” for sexually eager fans: In the same style as the band’s angular “Def Leppard” logo were the words “Dik Likker.”Ħ. A really hot girl whom I had never seen in my life came up to me, pulled my pants down, and went down on me and didn’t say a word. Collen says, “I was waiting for an elevator in a hotel. Def Leppard had a lewdly named backstage pass reserved especially for eager groupies.ĭef Leppard were astonished to discover that American girls wanted to sleep with them, and would even fellate crew members to gain access. “By the time we came to town, we’d already become rock gods to these kids in places like Norman, Oklahoma, and Monroe, Louisiana, that didn’t always have big bands rolling through.”ĥ.
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“Places that had cable TV had MTV, and places that had MTV had us all the time,” Collen says. The band’s early success was hugely dependent on geography: specifically, on whether your town had been wired for cable television. Our vocals will be more like a screaming chant, which will set them apart.”Ĥ. MTV helped the Leps conquer Middle America. We won’t have lovely harmonies like Styx or Foreigner. The Def Leppard mission statement, from genius producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange: “Def Leppard will be all about great pop songs that resonate with the punk ethos. Hysteria producer Mutt Lange’s aesthetic was anti-harmony, pro-scream.
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