DEF LEPPARD Wanted To Make New Album Flow Like A Classic Record

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen was interviewed on a recent edition of the “Stuck And Gunner” radio show. You can now listen to the chat using the SoundCloud widget below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On DEF LEPPARD‘s new, self-titled album:

“This album has been probably the most inspired album we’ve done since ‘Hysteria’, I think. It came together… It was amazing how it worked. We did it over three sections over a year and a half. We went off on tour in between [and] we’d done all this stuff. And we actually thought we [were] gonna go in just to write a single, but in the process we actually got twelve songs [done]. So it was pretty amazing, the whole thing.”

On the importance of the running order of the songs on an album:

“I think, really, on this record, it’s so strong, and in an era where you haven’t really gotta make albums… And this is funny you mention that, because we… Our running order [for the new album]… We have this song called ‘Blind Faith’ that really sounds like the climax or the finale of an album, and because people don’t do albums, they don’t even worry about stuff like this anymore. We really wanted to make it like an album, so it flowed like a classic album; there’s almost like a concept to it. And we put this song at the back. And it’s some people’s favorite song, and they wanted to put it forward and have it come earlier. But the whole thing flows like a book — you’ve got a front cover and a back cover and this song, ‘Blind Faith’, totally bookends the album perfectly, I think. And everyone one who has heard it since is, like, ‘Wow, this is… What a great flow the record’s got.’ And we actually did go out of our way to try and get that stuff together, so that’s pretty interesting.”

DEF LEPPARD‘s first new studio album since 2008’s “Songs From The Sparkle Lounge” will be released on October 30. The self-titled CD was recorded earlier this year at singer Joe Elliott‘s studio in Dublin, Ireland.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net