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Philip Kenneth Collen (born 8 December 1957) is an English musician who is best known as the co-lead guitarist for the rock band Def Leppard. Collen joined the band in 1982 during the recording of the Pyromania album. [2]
May 12, 2023 · Def Leppard is out with a new collaborative album with the Royal Philharmonic, 'Drastic Symphonies.' In an interview with GRAMMY.com, guitarist Phil Collen gets in a reflective mood about their early days of hysteria — and euphoria — in the studio.
Mar 26, 2024 · Def Leppard's Phil Collen tells UCR in a March 2024 interview how Mutt Lange helped them make Pyromania an album which became a timeless classic.
To hear Phil Collen tell it, he joined Def Leppard almost by accident. He had loaned the band one of his amps, and when they asked him to play some leads on their upcoming record Pyromania, Collen thought he was just doing his friends a solid.
Sep 24, 2021 · Guitar Showcase 2021: It would be fair to say many great electric guitar players have helped build the Jackson brand into what it is today – though perhaps none more so than Phil Collen, who partnered up with the Californian company in the mid-'80s.
May 9, 2024 · Phil Collen, of London glam rock band Girl, was the perfect replacement. When Leppard began work on Pyromania in 1982, the sound of the decade was still emerging. There were benchmarks – Van Halen, Boston and AC/DC – but no one had yet made the record to define rock in the ’80s.
Oct 27, 2015 · Phil Collen, who has played guitar for Def Leppard since 1982, has written an autobiography with Chris Epting — Adrenalized: Life, Def Leppard, and Beyond — that’s packed with juicy...
Mar 21, 2014 · Three decades into a remarkably successful career, guitarist Phil Collen looks at each day as a new beginning. Best known for his work with rock band Def Leppard, Collen is also involved with a gritty blues-rock trio, Manraze, where he is joined by Paul Cook and Simon Laffy.
In the following interview, guitarist Phil Collen, who joined Def Leppard while they were in the midst of recording Pyromania, discusses the process of creating the groundbreaking album. Recalls Collen, who had previously played with British glam rockers Girl, “Mutt would say to us, ‘Yeah, you can be average, and you can be good.
Mar 28, 2024 · Recalling the price tag for recording Def Leppard's 1987 album, Hysteria, guitarist Phil Collen is still amazed. "Four and a half million dollars!" he says, laughing slightly.
