“What are the key ingredients for somebody to fit in with this band? One of the things we said was having an encyclopedic knowledge of Monty Python, Blackadder, and Fawlty Towers”
“What are the key ingredients for somebody to fit in with this band? One of the things we said was having an encyclopedic knowledge of Monty Python, Blackadder, and Fawlty Towers.” Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images “That was a very interesting night. We were just giggling to ourselves.”“It’s a very moving piece of work and a recurring theme in my life.”
They persisted after their drummer, Rick Allen, overcame an arm amputation after a car crash in 1985; their original lead guitarist, Steve Clark, died from alcohol poisoning in 1991; and their replacement guitarist, Vivian Campbell, got diagnosed with cancer in 2013.
Most decibel-breaking song If we’re taking everything into consideration, it’s probably “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” because when we play it live, we have a tendency to get louder and louder as the set goes on, and that’s the one song where the crowd will take it over the decibel limit. Even wearing in-ear monitors, which is what I do onstage, I can sometimes not hear us on the chorus because of the crowd. It means a great deal as part of our legacy.
People laugh at “Let’s Get Rocked,” but it wasn’t really written as a comedy song, as in, say, the way “The Laughing Gnome” was by David Bowie. It was supposed to be humorous. I think we possibly went a little overboard with the humor. I’m not the biggest fan of that song these days. It doesn’t really blow me away anymore. I don’t know what it is. There’s a barrier that’s come up between us for the last couple of years where I’m like, Really? There was great humor in “Bad Actress.
We don’t use tapes, it’s all real. It’s three guys singing. It’s the three guys who’ve worked so hard at getting their blend to work the way that Crosby, Stills & Nash did or the way that Queen did. We are in that category of quality. The backing vocals are hugely entertaining and melodic and memorable. It makes me really proud of the rest of the guys for putting in the effort. Because a lot of people, when they sing in bands, they really don’t want to.
We’ve blown it out of the park with this last album, Diamond Star Halos. We had three or four songs before lockdown started in 2020 and nobody was allowed to travel. Me and Phil got on the phone and said, “Well, what are we going to do now?” We both agreed, “Let’s just pour everything onto the table, it doesn’t matter what kind of song it is. Write one on the ukulele if you want, for God’s sake.
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