BOB: Thank goodness, it's bad enough with me in my skates tonight. You'll wear anything Joe, we know about you.

JOE: Wear it on the bus.

PHIL: Yeah, I guess so.

BOB: We'll talk to Chrissy in Southern Illinois. Hi, how are you?

Chrissy: Hi, how are you? Hi Phil, Hi Joe. I was wondering - I understand you recently hired a man from the Netherlands to be your official webmaster. I was wondering how you feel about that and if you plan to be more involved with the site now and also how important do you think the Internet and mailing lists like DefNet are to promoting bands today?

PHIL: Mark, who's in Holland, has actually been like a fan since he was about 2 years old or something like that. We have kinda known him off and on over the years and it was brought to our attention cause he was doing such a good job. Apparently everyone and all the fans we spoke to said, the Mark Senff site is fantastic. So it kinda came full circle and it naturally went to him. Because there is a lot of problems with fan clubs and sites in some cases and they've just had their run. It's always been our intention to try and get a bit more involved. We'd like that.

JOE: We've always had a lot of bad luck when it comes to fan clubs and stuff like that. It always seems to go wrong no matter what we try and do, it just always falls on its face. It's like we're the most professional band in one respect and we appear on the face of things like this that we are the most unprofessional. It's not for want of trying. Mark's site, being a fan doing it, was so comprehensibly much better than anything we'd ever seen before. Me and Phil discuss this ages ago about why don't we just get him to be our official guy because he's so good and eventually that is what it's turned out to be. We do plan to get a lot more involved in it. It should be a lot easier because he's so enthusiastic to do it, it's not a job, it's not somebody saying, you've got Def Leppard and I don't want them, I want Britney Spears. He wants to do this, so it's a labor of love for him.

PHIL: Plus he knows more about us then we do which is great. He's got all the facts and figures, he's got it down. Good luck. Let's just hope this turns into something.

BOB: And of course, the other part of what Chrissy said; the importance of being on the Internet and it's invaluable. You need that presence without a doubt.

PHIL: Absolutely.

BOB: Well, I am not leaving here without playing my favorite DL song. This is Hysteria.

PHIL: OK cool.

BOB: Def Leppard here with you tonight on Rockline. We're with Joe Elliott and Phil Collen. Joe is in Chicago and Phil here in our Rockline studios. Rocklineradio.com. You can see me and Phil and the vaunted Rockline crew, waving and making the fools out of themselves that comes so naturally. Look who's talking, huh? Everyone who gets on the air tonight gets a copy of Euphoria courtesy of Island Records. Back with your calls and the band in a moment.

BOB: Welcome Tanya now in Travers City Michigan. Hi Tanya.

TANYA: Hi Phil, Hi Joe. I am so nervous. I just wanted to let you know that you guys are so great. My whole family loves you, all three of my kids. They're fourteen down to three. My three year old is listening to you guys. I just wanted to let you know we've seen you guys twice so far on the tour, we are going to see you at Pine Knobs and so far we haven't heard you guys play Back in Your Face and we were wondering if you guys would play that for us that night?

PHIL: We played it in Texas. We played it in Corpus Christi if I'm not mistaken.

JOE: You're not mistaken.

PHIL: And we played it a couple of times up in Canada maybe, I'm not sure. It's one of those songs we were just testing out to see how it would go down. I don't know if we'll be playing it yet on the States bit.

BOB: Well, if you do, play it at Pine Knob and then Tanya will be very happy there. Tanya, what is it about that song that appeals to you?

TANYA: I love the beat, it's just really great. I just love the guitar, I love the sound of Joe's voice. It's just so great. And my three year old just walks around singing it. She sings everything. It's just a good song, I really like it.

JOE: We tested it in Canada because it was a similar kind of feel to the Gary Glitter, Rock and Roll part 2 which they use at the ice hockey games. We heard a rumor that it was a getting played because they dropped the Glitter one for his misdemeanors that he suffered a few months back.

BOB: Those weren't misdemeanors, those were felonies.

PHIL: laughs.

BOB: Do you know where he's living now?

PHIL: No.

BOB: Cuba.

JOE: A boat in Spain.

BOB: He's living in Cuba.

JOE: He's on a boat in Spain according to the English papers awhile back with his wig off. He looks pretty sad.

BOB: Oh, man. Laughing. It's the dis Gary Glitter portion of Rockline tonight. Thank you very much. We are going to talk to Morgan in Portland Oregon. Hi Morgan.

MORGAN: Hi. Hi Joe, Hi Phil. I just want to say that I am a musician and I started playing guitar because of how much I loved you when I was 12 years old. I traveled like 900 miles to see you guys last summer and it was like the best thing that ever happened to me. I think you guys are great and my question is for Joe. I saw an interview with you about 10 years ago and you were saying how you were on your way home and you missed the bus and you wound up running into a couple of guys and they were talking about oh we have a band and we need a lead singer and you were hooking up with them. My question is I wondered where do you think life would have taken you if you had not missed the bus that day and what do you think life would have been like for you had it not been for DL and where you would be right now?

JOE: This is where fate plays a fantastic role in everybody's life. I mean, it literally was that I missed the bus, I bumped into Pete Willis and there we go. It would have probably taken me to where I had left 20 minutes previously, back to the factory. Actually that factory is gone so I would have ended up someplace else. I don't know, 2.3 kids, heavy mortgage, beer belly, the whole. I don't know. I was just very fortunate and very lucky that I got the opportunity to do what I actually wanted to do what I have always wanted to do. We've worked very hard to get where we've got. It's like snakes and ladders, you've got to take your opportunities and you take the roll of the dice and sometimes you go up and sometimes you go down. But, I don't know, it's impossible to say where it could have taken us. I could sit here and bs everybody and say that it would've happened anyway, but you know, you just don't know. It was just a very fateful day.

BOB: Well, you know, you missed one bus and caught another. What's going on with Pete these days? Are you in touch with him at all?

JOE: Not really, no. One of my friends back in Sheffield, his sister is married to Pete. And so occasionally I hear things and I think that he's just. Pete's one of those guys, great guitar player, but he just didn't have the drive to deal with everything else. We were always, the rest of us always knew from an early age that there was a lot more to being in a band than being in a band. Everything goes with it, you're on show all the time that you are awake basically. You're working all the time you're awake. Whether you're thinking about things that you're doing or thinking about what you're going to do, Pete wasn't really drawn to that kind of lifestyle. He wanted to play the guitar and that was it no matter how many times we tried to explain that you had to put the work in, you have to do interviews, you have to do photos, you have to do this, that and the other. He really wasn't into it and it's a shame because he's a good player, he just didn't play the game.

BOB: Morgan's into it. Plays Bringin' on the Heartbreak.

BOB: We have Jack from the New York City area. Hi, Jack.

JACK: Good evening everyone. I am originally from the former Soviet Union where 15 years ago, I became a true fan of Def Leppard. And now I have a question for the members of my favorite band. Gentlemen, what is the most rewarding aspect of your career at the present time?

JOE: I would say, probably the Diamond Award, that we achieved for the Hysteria album. That was a very

PHIL: I couldn't hear the question actually.

JOE: What was the biggest achievement we've had? Other than, the most rewarding aspect is still being able to go on stage and still be able to put out records and still be called a valid band. But I just think as a gratuitous thing, the Diamond Award, is fantastic. It was not voted for by a panel, it's voted for by 10 million people who bought the album. And to be in the same company as the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John and people like that. Led Zeppelin of course. It was just an astonishing couple of hours in New York. It was great.

BOB: Now, Jack, being from the former Soviet Union, may not know what the Diamond Award is and that's sales of 10 million albums which is remarkable and there aren't that many Diamond Awards out there.

PHIL: I think that that was the first Diamond award actually. There's like 68 artists or 68 albums, so we were really privileged to be amongst that lot.

BOB: Jack thanks for being on and thanks for your call. Is that the US or worldwide?

JOE AND PHIL: Just the US.

BOB: Just US. Unbelievable. Boy that's a lot of CD's moving through the scanner. Back with DL in just a moment.

BOB: And once again, welcome back to Rockline. I'm Bob Coburn. An evening with DL coming to a conclusion in just a couple of moments. Lists concert dates. Do you guys know the web address? Putting you on the spot here.

PHIL: Uh, you have, you have. What is it Joe, help, help.

BOB: Joe, do you know?

JOE: What, our website? www.defleppard.com, I hope.

BOB: You hope. Laughs.

PHIL: If that doesn't work, call us.

BOB: There you go. Yeah, I'm sure, why don't you give your home phone out now Phil?

PHIL: Actually, call Bob and he'll tell you.

BOB: Yeah, there you go, yeah. Bob with the wonderful skates that he's been wearing all night long. You had to be at the beginning of the program to get all that. Joe, it's nice to have you back again and

JOE: Always a pleasure Bob.

BOB: You're always welcome here, you know that. Phil, it was great to see you. What are you going to do in Chicago tonight, Joe? Where are you headed Joe?

JOE: I'm heading back to my girlfriend's parent's house. I'm too cheap to get a hotel.

BOB: laughs. Taking a room at the girlfriend's house. Where do you head into the Los Angeles night, Mr. Collen?

PHIL: I'm actually, Anita, my other half, is doing a play in the Coast Theater in West Hollywood so she starts that this Friday, so I'm going to be seeing that and they've got a rehearsal tomorrow. So, I'm hanging around. I'm up here in Hollywood.

BOB: Well thanks so much for being with us this evening. Thanks to everyone for listening and for calling as well. Thanks to everyone at Q-Prime and Island Records.

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