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"The source material may be way past prime Bon Jovi, but that's almost irrelevant": Jon Bon Jovi gets by with a little help from his friends on revised version of Forever album

Bruce Springsteen, Joe Elliott, Avril Lavigne, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and more clamber aboard the legendary Forever train from New Jersey

“He sings on all our stuff. You hear him on AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Shania’s stuff. He has the best voice in the room”: Phil Collen says Mutt Lange is an ace vocalist who can nail it in one take – and it’s the same with guitar

“He sings on all our stuff. You hear him on AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Shania’s stuff. He has the best voice in the room”: Phil Collen says Mutt Lange is an ace vocalist who can nail it in one take – and it’s the same with guitar

For Collen, working with Lange is like “going to school for your favourite subject” but recreating the studio magic live on Def Leppard tracks such as Live Bites can be very tricky at first

"Really, really cool... his guitar style is so unique and he really didn't let us down”: Def Leppard’s Phil Collen on their collab with Tom Morello

"Really, really cool... his guitar style is so unique and he really didn't let us down”: Def Leppard’s Phil Collen on their collab with Tom Morello

Tom Morello guests with Def Leppard on their new single

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Glam session: Def Leppard and Tom Morello join forces for new song Just Like '73

Morello has got his Whammy out but he keeps it melodic

“He sings on all our stuff. You hear him on AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Shania’s stuff. He has the best voice in the room”: Phil Collen says Mutt Lange is an ace vocalist who can nail it in one take – and it’s the same with guitar

For Collen, working with Lange is like “going to school for your favourite subject” but recreating the studio magic live on Def Leppard tracks such as Live Bites can be very tricky at first

"It went a bit too poppy, a bit too happy… I used to really cringe when I heard it": Def Leppard's Hysteria is a perfect $4.5 million rock album – but guitarist Phil Collen had issues with one of its songs in particular

Classic 2012 interview: Phil Collen talks through every song on Def Leppard's 25 million-selling Hysteria

"When we saw the bill afterward, that's why we're in this room now": Joe Elliot offers a tour of the home studio he built to save Def Leppard money after the cost of making Hysteria

Its Neve 8424 console proved to be a great investment for the vocalist and Leppard sound engineer Ronan McHugh

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Phil Collen talks Def Leppard's orchestral maneuvers, Rockman amps, Mutt Lange… and why he wants the band to play in the round again

Phil Collen talks Def Leppard's orchestral maneuvers, Rockman amps, Mutt Lange… and why he wants the band to play in the round again

Interview: "What would I do if I was starting out now? I would play the opening of a letter"

Phil Collen remembers how he was secretly auditioned for Def Leppard during the making of Pyromania without knowing it

Phil Collen remembers how he was secretly auditioned for Def Leppard during the making of Pyromania without knowing it

He also reflects on why he thinks the band's Britishness helped them break America with the song Photograph

Joe Elliott duets with a younger version of himself on new Def Leppard album

Joe Elliott duets with a younger version of himself on new Def Leppard album

Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says singing with his younger self on forthcoming orchestral album Drastic Symphonies was like "singing with a ghost that's still alive"

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