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Look for Phil Collen backstage (or onstage for that matter) on the current Def Leppard world tour and chances are you'll see his beautiful wife, Helen, tending to business nearby. Married last summer ...
In 1982, Phil Collen was appointed Def Leppard’s newest electric guitar player following the departure of Pete Willis. That ...
Forty years is the ruby anniversary – and Phil Collen is certainly looking at his with Def Leppard through understandably rose-colored glasses. "We kind of take that approach with the band ...
Def Leppard has been shredding stages for more than 40 years, but the band’s hunger to electrify fans keeps escalating. The quintet of Joe Elliott (vocals), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen ...
Seeing Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple may have cast the die for 14-year-old Phil Collen in terms of getting ... glam rock that sucked in the future Def Leppard guitarist and the rest of his ...
Phil Collen was obsessed with all things American. The music, be it rock or blues, were major influences, but of particular interest to the guitarist of heavy metal glam band Def Leppard were the ...
Phil Collen has described working with Mutt Lange as “like going to school for your favourite subject,” crediting the super-producer as not only being instrumental in helping Def Leppard find ...
When Phil Collen was growing up in London in the 1960s, comic books weren’t as popular as they were in the U.S. But the Def Leppard guitarist was a fan anyway. “Some of the news agents would ...
Classic Rock Magazine recently put Def Leppard's Phil Collen through the exercise of making an '80s mixtape, and while you could think the guitarist might load it up with some '80s hard hitters ...
the forthcoming graphic novel co-written by Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and Eliot Rahal, drawn by Alex Schlitz, coloured by Fabi Marques, and lettered by Andworld Design. This single issue ...