The amazing story behind Def Leppard and their breakthrough hit Photograph from their 1983 smash 10 million selling album Pyromania. Joe Elliott and company had to recruit a new guitarist when their current player was coming to recordings intoxicated. They tapped Phil Collen and he ended up saving the album with killer solos. Super producer Mutt Lange set the band straight and they had their first smash hit… Was the song about a Hollywood starlet? Joe Elliott has told several different stories… Find out which one’s true next.
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Some like it hot. Some like it heavy. But with today’s breakthrough hit, you get it both ways. From a blazing inferno of an album, this incendiary rocker glistened with just enough pop sheen to win over mainstream audiences. Allegedly it was inspired by history’s ultimate bombshell blonde... But whether it was about a pop culture pin up didn’t matter half as much as the fact that this song flat out rocked. It’s a classic car stereo, blast it out your speakers track that has to be cranked to 11... coming up... NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. In this show we breakdown songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career and gave them the momentum to rocket to long term success. On previous episodes we have covered Cum on Feel the Noize by Quiet Riot, Nobody’s Fool by Cinderella, and Silent Lucidity by Queensryche. Today we are diving deep into a song that kicked open the door for an up-and-coming band called Def Leppard. The song? Photograph from 1983’s Pyromania.
As Def Leppard gathered at Battle’s Park Gate studios in 1982 to continue work on their third album Pyromania, it was obvious guitarist Pete Willis was out of sync with the rest of the band. Yeah, musically things seemed to be going okay. Pete had already co-written multiple songs for the record and had laid down some rhythm guitar tracks.But at the same time, Willis was sinking deep into an alcoholic stupor. According to lead singer Joe Elliot, Willis was quite a nice chap sober, but he was one hell of a nasty drunk. And as his drinking increased, so did the disruptions in the studio. When Willis started arguing about recording techniques with the band’s producer Mutt Lange, an expert at the peak of his profession, Joe realized something had to give.
This was Def Leppard’s second outing with Lange. And to the guys, he may as well have been another member of the band. Mutt played every instrument except the drums, he was a songwriter, an engineer, and had already produced best-selling albums for AC/DC and Foreigner. Everyone knew they had something massive with Pyromania. And Willis’ behavior, if unchecked, was going to chase Mutt out of the studio and cost them their big break.
Said Joe Elliot, “We knew we were making something really special in the studio, and so when our producer, Mutt Lange, started getting concerned about Pete, we knew something had to give pretty soon...
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