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Def Leppard took the stage at Blossom Music Center on August 24, 2011, with special guests Heart! And what a concert!

Heart kicked off the show and played a lot of their awesome hits, like Barracuda, These Dreams and Alone. Of course, they threw in their new song, WTF. They rocked the show and got the audience amped up for Def Leppard.

Def Leppard appeared on stage with their new song, Undefeated, and the crowd went wild. Here is the list of songs they played for us:

Undefeated
Let’s Get Rocked
Animal
Foolin’
Love Bites
Bass Solo
Rock On
(David Essex cover)
Rocket
Two Steps Behind
Bringin’ on the Heartbreak
Switch 625
Hysteria
Armageddon It
Photograph
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Encore:
Rock of Ages

We loved every minute of the concert! We’d be remiss in not wishing guitarist Vivian “The New Guy” Campbell, a happy belated birthday!

Heart and Def Leppard rocked the stage, leaving us wanting more. I have to imagine it’s hard to walk away from thousands of screaming fans… Joe Elliott ended the concert by saying that if we keep coming back, so will they. Thanks Joe, we will hold you to that!

Photos Courtesy Of Anita Stout

Happy birthday to Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott! The British singer turns 51 today!

While the band is on a bit of a break, Joe has been busy with his side project, the Down N Outz [listen to their music here]. The band consists of Joe from Def Leppard, Ronnie Garrity from Raw Glory, and Paul Guerin, Guy Griffin, and Keith Weir from The Quireboys.

On a personal note, Joe and his wife Kristine welcomed a son Finlay in December 2009.

Happy birthday Joe! What’s your favorite Def Leppard song???

Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott’s side project Down N’ Outz has a video for their new song, England Rocks. The song is obviously modeled after Cleveland Rocks, but we’ll still take it.

Have a watch, after the jump! (continue reading…)

Eighties (and now) rockers Def Leppard have signed a new deal with Primary Wave, which will see them doing cartoons.

After the success of their summer tour, they are planning on reaching the next generation of kids through an animated television show. The series would follow the toon versions of the musicians in various adventures.

Also on the horizon is a deal to include a computer game along with iPhone applications.

Image Credit: Bauer-Griffin

New Kids On The Block fans will be as pleased as punch to learn that the group have announced their “Full Service” Tour dates.

May 28: Atlanta (Lakewood Amphitheatre)
May 29: Birmingham, Ala. (Verizon Wireless Music Center)
May 30: Tampa, Fla. (Ford Amphitheater)
May 31: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Cruzan Amphitheater)
June 2: Charlotte, N.C. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
June 3: Raleigh, N.C. (Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion )
June 5: Virginia Beach, Va. (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)
June 6: Camden, N.J. (Susquehanna Bank Center)
June 7: Washington, D.C. (Nissan Pavilion)
June 10: Scranton, Pa. (Toyota Pavilion)
June 11: Pittsburgh (Post-Gazette Pavilion)
June 12: Wantagh, N.Y. (Nikon at Jones Beach Theater)
June 13: Holmdel, N.J. (PNC Bank Arts Center)
June 14: Buffalo, N.Y. (Darien Lake Performing Arts Center)
June 16: Saratoga, N.Y. (Saratoga Performing Arts Center)
June 18: Uncasville, Conn. (Mohegan Sun)
June 19: Boston (Comcast Center)
June 21: Toronto (Molson Amphitheater)
June 23: Cleveland (Blossom Music Center)
June 25: Detroit (DTE Energy Music Center)
June 26: Chicago (First Midwest Bank Amphitheater)
June 27: Cincinnati ( Riverbend Music Center)
June 28: INDIANAPOLIS (Verizon Amphitheater)
July 1: St. Louis (Verizon Wireless)
July 2: Memphis, Tenn. (Mud Island Ampitheater)
July 3: Wichita, Kans. (Hartman Arena)
July 7: Seattle (White River Amphitheatre)
July 9: San Francisco (Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord)
July 10: Irvine, Calif. (Verizon Wireless Ampitheater)
July 11: Las Vegas (The Pearl)
July 12: Phoenix (Cricket Wireless Pavilion)
July 15: Denver (Fiddler’s Green)
July 17: Dallas (Superpages.com Center)
July 18: Houston (Cynthia Mitchell Woods Pavilion)

I know the only tour I plan on going to see in June is Def Leppard on June 25th.

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Now you know that this is a concert that even I would be able to pass up. And they’re coming to Blossom, too. Woot.

Def Leppard, Poison, and Cheap Trick are joining up for a what I’m calling an “Economic Crisis Package Tour“. The tour involves all three bands touring together for an 80′s extravaganza that will have each band performing their classic hits (and some new stuff) for one low price.

They must know times are tough!

Joe Elliott says, “We’re going out with three bands, which limits the amount of time we can play to about 90 minutes. When you do your greatest hits and some new material or extra stuff you might throw in, you have got to push and shove and clamp down.”

Click here for the full tour dates. Now if all the guys would get together for a song, that would be rockin’. “And baby I’m not f-f-f-foolin’!”

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Def Leppard’s song, “Pour Some Sugar On Me” made a cameo in the new T-Mobile commercial. Yes, I guess there’s someone you can call to give you the proper lyrics to the song. Nice.

Image Credit: Bauer-Griffin

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There are seven auctions on eBay now for you and/or a guest to have a nice dinner with Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell. There are ten slots available for the dinner, which will take place at a restaurant in Los Angeles on March 7, 2009.

The higher the bid, the closer the seat to Vivian. So bid high, the auction goes to benefit CreateNow!, which is a mentoring through music program for abused and neglected children in California.

All of the auctions are set to end on March 20th. The seats at the dinner are still affordable, so if you’re in the L.A. area, what are you waiting for?!

Hat Tip: Scott at TheRockDose

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Joe Elliott has apologized to hockey fans after placing the Stanley Cup upside down on a podium on the 10th. We said it then that the world isn’t going to end.

In a statement, he says, “I will, as always, take full responsibility for what happened because I have big pucks. However, someone at the NHL should have known better and informed me first instead of keeping the Stanley Cup under lock and key until the last minute. The practice runs the day before with a coffeemaker went swimmingly because it, like every other sporting cup I’ve ever seen, was wider at the top than the base. Like most of my fellow Brits, I’d never seen it before until it was handed to me sideways, by which time I had a 50/50 chance of getting it right. Whoops.”

Like I’ve said, it’s all good. Eff hockey, make another record!

There’s a big “epic fail” fuss over the way that Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott handled the Stanley Cup at the launch of the new hockey season last night. Oh noes! I guess the world is going to end now, isn’t it?

When the cup was brought out, Joe picked it up and placed it on the podium upside down. Yes, that was the flub.

Of the incident, Joe says, “We’re soccer boys, what do we know?”

It’s all good Joe, your music still rocks.

This is Phil Collen’s (guitarist for Def Leppard) side project Man Raze, with their first video. The song is called Can’t Find My Own Way. I still have mixed feelings on this song, even though you gotta love Phil’s voice.

What do you think?