COMPLETELY without warning, Sheffield titans Def Leppard have released new music.
Intended to mark the start of a Las Vegas residency, “Rejoice” has been posted on all streaming platforms by Universal.
In a media release announcing the single, singer Joe Elliott was quoted as saying: “This song’s been an amazing journey from concept to conclusion. I said to Phil [Collen] one day, ‘I’ve got this idea for a lyric where the narrator is at absolute rock bottom and wants to rise up to a higher level. Do you have a musical piece that might match with that?’ And he said, ‘As it happens, yes I do.'”
Guitarist Collen adds: ” “I had this riff, this idea for a song a while ago actually, so when Joe came to me I created this drum loop based with a tribal sound and it fit perfectly with this other arrangement I had.
“I sent it to Joe and it was like magic — he sang straight over the top of it. And that’s how the song was formed.
“Then we gave it to Ronan [McHugh] who’d done a proper drum loop with different sounds. It all started gelling and just sounded like a powerful chant. We love it. It’s hard rock for us. It’s got a bit more of an ‘oomph’ than stuff we’ve been doing for a while. It’s kind of magical.”
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