Def Leppard Re-Record Old Tracks Following Label Disagreement
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
English rockers Def Leppard are apparently re-recording songs from their back-catalogue, but it won’t be featuring as part of a re-mastered or re-visited CD - and is instead a ploy to get back at Universal Music Group, who are ‘not prepared to pay a fair amount of money’ for the downloads of the tracks.
Tracks such as ‘Pour Some Sugar on Me’ and ‘Rock of Ages’ are already available and the band aren’t stopping there, as they attempt to ‘wrestle’ back control of their career. Leppard will continue to re-record the ‘brand new, exact same versions’ of their tracks until they come up with an agreement with Universal involving the distribution of royalties in regards to the digital downloads of their tracks.
“When you're at loggerheads with an ex-record label who is not prepared to pay you a fair amount of money and we have the right to say, 'Well, you're not doing it,' that's the way it's going to be,” the bands’ frontman Joe Elliott told Billboard. “Our contract is such that they can't do anything with our music without our permission, not a thing. So we just sent them a letter saying, 'No matter what you want, you are going to get "no" as an answer, so don't ask.' That's the way we've left it. We'll just replace our back catalog with brand new, exact same versions of what we did.”
He went on to add that the re-recording sessions haven’t outed the idea of working on brand new tracks, with Elliott saying: “We're constantly thinking about [working on fresh material]. We're going to write on the road, and it'll likely be, 'Hey, I've got this idea for a song' and we'll play it around in the dressing room, and then when the tour's over we'll get together in short bursts and record a song or two, and then we'll start piecing stuff together.”
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