As they say, this comes straight from the horse's mouth. Defleppard.com has announced that the band's news album, Songs from The Sparkle Lounge, has been pushed back from its tentative March release to a new May release. As they themselves say it "it's one of the constants in the history of Def Leppard", that of having albums either a) take 4 years to make or b) be constantly pushed back. Of course, it's no Chinese Democracy, but it is still something which fans always must endure in order for our favorite bands to give us something that they truly believe is the best material that they can possibly create at this point in their careers.
Def Leppard's last release, 2002's X, was not received as well as it could've been, but that was mainly the fault of their record company, Universal, who didn't back up the album with a proper marketing campaign, but that's a topic for another day. Strangely enough, there is a track in that album which was a single, had a video (a very well-produced video), and was probably one of their best tracks ever, but guess what? Now, this is weird. The song Long Long Way To Go is probably one of their best and was not written by them! The credits go to W. Hector and S. Robson, but who these guys are, I've no idea. An internet search gives no clue as to who these songwriters are, but I believe Def Lep fans owe a thanks to them for giving such a great song to such a great band.
Right now, it's anybody's guess whether the new album will contain songs by anybody else besides the Leps, but if they do, let's hope the quality is as high as one Long Long Way To Go.
Def Leppard's last release, 2002's X, was not received as well as it could've been, but that was mainly the fault of their record company, Universal, who didn't back up the album with a proper marketing campaign, but that's a topic for another day. Strangely enough, there is a track in that album which was a single, had a video (a very well-produced video), and was probably one of their best tracks ever, but guess what? Now, this is weird. The song Long Long Way To Go is probably one of their best and was not written by them! The credits go to W. Hector and S. Robson, but who these guys are, I've no idea. An internet search gives no clue as to who these songwriters are, but I believe Def Lep fans owe a thanks to them for giving such a great song to such a great band.
Right now, it's anybody's guess whether the new album will contain songs by anybody else besides the Leps, but if they do, let's hope the quality is as high as one Long Long Way To Go.
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