{"id":40078,"date":"2024-05-30T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=40078"},"modified":"2024-05-30T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:27:06","slug":"def-leppard-guitarist-phil-collen-and-bassist-rick-savage-go-deep-with-rock-candy-mag-on-the-making-of-their-classic-pyromania-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/def-leppard-guitarist-phil-collen-and-bassist-rick-savage-go-deep-with-rock-candy-mag-on-the-making-of-their-classic-pyromania-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and bassist Rick Savage go deep with Rock Candy Mag on the making of their classic \u2018Pyromania\u2019 album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWE THOUGHT, \u2018NOBODY\u2019S MADE A RECORD LIKE THIS!\u2019\u201d<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and bassist Rick Savage go deep with Rock Candy Mag<br \/>\non the making of their classic \u2018Pyromania\u2019 album.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40079\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pr2024-05-30-rcm-01-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"828\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/omjLHCNGvRE?si=-tSM1YoX105aNLje\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nRock Candy Magazine Issue 44 Out Now Featuring RUSH and DEF LEPPARD<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MAY 30, 2024 &#8211;\u00a0Def Leppard\u2019s \u2018Pyromania\u2019 became a genuine phenomenon in 1983 when it sold a staggering 10 million copies in the United States alone. Guitarist Phil Collen and bassist Rick Savage spoke to Rock Candy Mag editor Howard Johnson at length about the long and arduous process of making this masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur producer Mutt Lange said to me, \u2018Yeah, you\u2019re a good rock band. But if you want to be great\u2026\u201d says Collen. Leppard spent the best part of the year of 1982 painstakingly crafting the songs for \u2018Pyromania\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew this project was going to be a long haul because we were aiming to expand riff ideas into songs that transcended the metal fraternity,\u201d explains Savage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember someone from the record company asking Mutt why the album was taking so long,\u201d recalls Collen. \u201cHe said, \u2018So you\u2019ll be talking about it in 40 years\u2019 time.\u2019 He wasn\u2019t wrong!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 10 pages, Rock Candy Mag uncovers the full story behind the making of \u2018Pyromania\u2019 with a level of detail that will thrill fans of the band and give all readers an unprecedented view of a bona fide rock classic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never really know how well an album is going to do,\u201d says Savage. \u201cBut I was 100 per cent confident we\u2019d made the right record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the 10-page Def Leppard \u2018Pyromania\u2019 feature in issue 44 of Rock Candy Mag, together with the 24-page Rush cover story and in-depth investigations of Kix, Black \u2019N Blue, Slayer, Gun, Megaforce Records, and more. For more details visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockcandymag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.rockcandymag.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>ABOUT ROCK CANDY MAG<\/strong><br \/>\nRock Candy Mag is a 100-page, full-colour bi-monthly rock mag, created in the UK. It covers the sights, sounds and smells from the greatest era in hard rock music, the \u201970s and \u201980s. The brainchild of: respected UK rock journalists Derek Oliver, Howard Johnson and Malcolm Dome \u2013 all frontline writers for the legendary Kerrang! magazine in the golden era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For all inquiries, contact:<br \/>\nMICHAEL BRANDVOLD MARKETING &amp; MANAGEMENT<br \/>\nMichael Brandvold | me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California. Having launched Michael Brandvold Marketing to leverage his years of experience to provide direction to large and small clients in the areas of online &amp; social marketing as well as e-commerce and customer acquisition and retention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael\u2019s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com\u2019s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking VIP ticket program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael has also managed the online efforts for Jordan Rudess, Greg Kihn, KISS, ACCEPT, SOiL, Tantric, Killer Dwarfs, Dream Theater, Little Caesar, Narada Michael Walden, Motley Cr\u00fce, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna and Britney Spears to name only a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are interested in speaking with Michael about what he can do to assist with your marketing needs contact him online at\u00a0me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWE THOUGHT, \u2018NOBODY\u2019S MADE A RECORD LIKE THIS!\u2019\u201d Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and bassist Rick Savage go deep with Rock Candy Mag on the making of their classic \u2018Pyromania\u2019 album. Rock Candy Magazine Issue 44 Out Now Featuring RUSH and DEF LEPPARD MAY 30, 2024 &#8211;\u00a0Def Leppard\u2019s \u2018Pyromania\u2019 became a genuine phenomenon in 1983 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":40079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3355],"tags":[3670,3360,3362,3361,3363,1713,3669,3671,3666,2901,3668,3667,3375,1702],"class_list":["post-40078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-marketing-2","category-press-releases","tag-alex-lifeson","tag-announcements","tag-client-announcements","tag-client-news","tag-client-press-releases","tag-def-leppard","tag-geddy-lee","tag-neil-peart","tag-phil-collen","tag-press-releases","tag-pyromania","tag-rick-savage","tag-rock-candy-magazine","tag-rush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pr2024-05-30-rcm-01-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40080,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40078\/revisions\/40080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}