The footage of the band’s newest single was filmed during the "Def Leppard Live At Caesars Palace: The Las Vegas Residency" series earlier this year.
"This song's been an amazing journey from concept to conclusion,” says Joe Elliott. “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.'"
"I had this riff, this idea for a song a while ago actually,” explains Collen, “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."
The residency featured a mix of Def Leppard’s classic tracks and hits from throughout their career, alongside some surprises in the mix, and included the live debut of their latest single, “Rejoice”, which arrived just ahead of opening night.
Def Leppard return to the road for a summer series of dates across Europe that will open in Rattvik, Sweden on June 13.
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