Drastic Symphonies

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But for the fact that this band's been together. This line-ups been together 31 years. It was good to be able to Question: Even with all that Def Leppard has accomplished in 40-plus years, how surreal was it to have the Royal Philharmonic playing your songs?

But he did take it to another level which was quite impressive because he had to rearrange his own strings." But I think as good as Heartbreak sounds. Switch takes it to a completely different stratosphere really." So, as the questions at the start asked: Why? Easy. Because a great song is a great song – there are loads of them here. And even more crucial, because they wanted to, and were gifted enough to pull it off. Swisscharts.com – Def Leppard with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Drastic Symphonies". Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 May 2023.So and I think that again by having just a couple of songs that are literally less than a year old." Phil Collen: “It’s a new Def Leppard album, it’s a greatest hits plus album with some songs rarely heard before, it’s a live RPO album and we think it’s perfect. We’re so proud of how ‘Drastic Symphonies’ turned out and can’t wait to share it to the world.” than anything that we did since. You now there was a lot more orchestration done on guitars from Pyromania onwards And Love Bites was a great example of a melody that was like just a bitch for me to like try and do.

And it was the same thing with the ones that we did on Love And Hate Collide which were done by Michael Kamen." And we really sing them live. So again another thing we're really proud of 'cause we work our asses off So it's one of the few songs that does sound like, not that we just plonked an orchestra on top. But we just I did a duet with myself from 40 years ago. It’s the most bizarre thing I’ve ever done. But it was great fun. The timing and the phrasing came to me instantly — it’s like it never left my DNA — but it was one of the strangest things I’ve ever done.” We were in awe watching these guys,” Joe says. “Everything sounded so perfect. I remember being down the front at an AC/DC gig at the Sheffield Top Rank in 1976. All I could hear was Angus. And I couldn’t hear for three days afterwards. But with the orchestra, the balances were never out of sync – from the cellos all the way down to a little plinky triangle. You’re just standing there thinking, ‘These guys know what they’re doing.’”done string arrangements on them. And I was going to him well you did such a stellar job how are you gonna top yourself?." And when we weren't working with Mutt any more it's like we would come up with songs like that where Sav smiles at the memory. “I don’t normally get caught up in the emotion,” he says. “But in that particular moment, it just hit me. I looked around thought: this is bloody Abbey Road, this is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and they’re playing my song! It’s something I never could have dreamed of. So it was pretty emotional for me. In all these years I’ve been in this business, doing what we do, that was one of the greatest few minutes of my career.

It’s been over 30 years (since he died). Hardly a day goes by when his name doesn’t come up or you see him in a photo to approve legacy artwork. He’s always there. My dad died in 2012 and he’s always there too. I think about Steve a lot, but it doesn’t pain me. I don’t like dwelling on it too long because in my mind, I find it disrespectful to Viv (Campbell). We’re for sure a better band musically and vocally since Viv joined and that’s no slight on Steve. In a perfect world, Steve might not be in the band anymore, but he’d be alive. If the whole orchestra just pissed off and left me in the empty room, I might have had a little tinkle on a piano or something,” he says. “But I’m not going to do it in front of somebody that’s studied for years to hone their craft. That would be like me trying to play for Argentina in the World Cup!”But as soon as those three words get spoken everybody eyes light up and goes can you imagine, because listen to it but what we had the opportunity to do here was put an album out that is a lot more now than it would have been And we could've kept going but it's like why do that you know. Why do that when you've got this amazing album. So Gods Of War, spectacular yeah." We decided to create something special where we would have something classic but present it in a brand-new way that would involve making everything work in the context of ‘Drastic Symphonies’. Recording new parts, remixing previous sounds, taking some of our instruments out so the orchestra could breathe and literally making a new album. It was an amazingly inspirational process culminating in the live recording of the RPO at Abbey Road studios in London. An absolute team effort that took a good part of a year. The next two are big hits. These are going to tell you if there’s any point, any thought or if they’d just phoned the thing in Jovi style.