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Signed colour 10" x 8" photo
of Def Leppard. The photo
is hand signed in black
marker
pen.
Price: £29.99
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Def Leppard
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Biography
Def Leppard are an English rock band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part
of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Rick Savage (bass), Pete Willis
(guitar), and Tony Kenning (drums), all students at Tapton School in Sheffield,
formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1977. Following a chance meeting with Willis
after missing a bus, only 18 at the time, Joe Elliott tried out for the band as
a guitarist. During his audition, however, it was decided that he was better
suited to be the lead singer.
Soon afterward they adopted a name proposed by Elliott, "Deaf Leopard", which
was originally a band name he thought up while writing reviews for imaginary
rock bands in his English class (and in at least partial reference to the band
Led Zeppelin).[4] At Kenning's suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified in
order to make the name seem less like that of a punk band. In January 1978,
Steve Clark joined the band. According to Joe Elliott, he successfully
auditioned for the band by playing Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" in its entirety.
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