If it's a success, they'll add more stuff in it, and we’re totally up for that.
![when does rock of ages movie come out when does rock of ages movie come out](http://letysmovierec.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Last-Summer.jpg)
I do believe they are going to revisit the play after the movie comes out. They actually went through all the proper channels, and everything got sorted out. "They didn't get it ready in time, and with the movie it's a whole different set of rules. "It went through the legal things, but they hadn't got it sorted out in time the play was going up, although it was the title of one of our songs," he explained. Two re-recorded DEF LEPPARD songs, "Rock Of Ages" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me", made it into the "Rock Of Ages" movie adaptation co-starring Tom Cruise as self-absorbed rocker Stacee Jaxx. In a 2012 interview with Attention Deficit Delirium, DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen suggested that legal issues were the reason the band's music wasn't included in the original musical. "Cut forward like 10 years, and some moron - I use the word not lightly, moron - comes up with the phrase 'hair metal' and we're going, 'Dude, we couldn't have been so far removed from that if we tried.' Literally, while everybody else is poncing around Sunset Boulevard doing whatever they did, we were in Holland living next to a windmill recording the 'Hysteria' album."Įlliott added that the "Rock Of Ages" request felt like an attempt to include DEF LEPPARD's music in "a play based on everything that we stood against." "We were always getting lumped in with this so-called new wave of British heavy metal when we first started out 40 years ago," Elliott said. That's exactly right."Īccording to Elliott, part of the reason DEF LEPPARD was reluctant to have its music included is the fact that they were unfairly compared to the "hair-metal" bands of the '80s. "People are going to go, 'Ah, it's good enough for you now, but it wasn't then.' Well, yeah.
![when does rock of ages movie come out when does rock of ages movie come out](https://s.movieinsider.com/images/p/75/93091_m1338767449.jpg)
"There isn't a person alive that's never changed their mind," Elliott said. Joe Elliott spoke to The New York Times about DEF LEPPARD's decision to finally allow the producers of the musical "Rock Of Ages" to use its songs as the show returns for a limited run in New York celebrating its 10th anniversary.