New Def Leppard debuts at number five

Def Leppard's new album, Songs From the Sparkle Lounge, debuted at Number Five this week, marking the band's 11th consecutive Top 20 album. It has been catching some buzz thanks to the single "Nine Lives," featuring country singer Tim McGraw. The set was recorded last year at vocalist Joe Elliot's Dublin studio. But the material was mostly written in 2006 while Def Leppard was on tour and dubbed their backstage area "The Sparkle Lounge." Elliot tells us how the most recent tracks came about: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "What we tend to do with in this one is like 'Alright, let's sit down and try write some songs.' If we were out buying records these are kind of songs we want to buy. We just sat down and wrote songs that we thought were meaningful songs. That's why there are songs on the album that are individually written by people because they just took the song and rolled with it, which we've never really done much in the past."

All songs from the new album can be requested online.

After finishing the European dates, Def Leppard kicks off a U.S. summer tour August 1st in Nashville.
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