ROGER WATERS - "The Wall" and its creator 2.0
It was the absolute sensory overload. Nobody who attended one of the 219 shows could record everything that happened on stage. A sea of symbolic images, a flood of messages. A Roger Waters completely changed compared to 1980. Everything documented in impressive scenes in the new film "Roger Waters The Wall". eclipsed talked to the Pink Floyd founder about the change of "The Wall" and himself.
THE BEATLES - As the tones learned to walk
![DEF LEPPARD - "We are Rock"](https://www.eclipsed.de/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/DefLeppard_pic-credit_Ross-Halfin%20web.jpg?itok=WEubB7vO "DEF LEPPARD - "We are Rock"")
Joe Elliott, the singer of the band, who belongs to the squad of eloquent English rock stars who radiate glamour and down-to-earthness at the same time, made sure in November 1977 that the band, which he joined at the age of 18, chose "Deaf Leopard" as its name. As a reference to Led Zeppelin, the musicians quickly renamed themselves Def Leppard and in 1980, during the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), were flushed to the top of the movement together with Saxon and Iron Maiden. But while their supposed musical companions, with the exception of Maiden, could not spread their success beyond the old continent, the Leps took a full approach to the rock throne and released "Pyromania" (1983) and "Hysteria" (1987), two of the most successful rock albums of all time. The two works produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange (including AC/DC, Foreigner, Bryan Adams) sold 22 million copies in the USA alone.
They no longer disguise themselves or adapt to any zeitgeist. Rather, they offer exactly what one imagines under the motto and banner of Def Leppard. It already starts with the opener "Let's Go". Not that they don't occasionally add something unexpected or surprising in between...
