WHAT WOULD DEF LEPPARD DO?

WOLFPACK OF ONE SINGLES CLUB: NINETEEN
Winningly your mate and mine, Winter Olympics bass player Nick Dutton got married to the equally excellent Miss Joanne Howell the other month. Just before he did so we were chatting about our very metal West Midlands upbringing. As Kidderminster kids we'd not consider taking any action (homework, golf lessons, talking to girls) until we'd discussed at length whether what we were doing was 'metal' or not. Nick says that if he still thought like that he'd never have managed to get married. I, sometimes, still find myself asking.

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We could feel it in the metal clubs, our days were numbered and we knew. We’d soon be thrown out like the ticket stubs we got signed by Motley Crue. We were dinosaurs who saw the comet coming, we knew that we’d soon be extinct. We realised that we’d look pretty f*cking funny to a future generation’s kids.

So we cut our hair, got proper jobs and we hang around in coffee shops, discussing Nevermind with the older guys, when all we really wanted to find out was.

Is this metal, is this true? Is this what Def Leppard would do?
Would they give up this easily, or would they pour some sugar on me?

The high street stores are selling metal vests to ironic Hoxton tools. The cast of Hollyoaks are dressed in Megadeth, when I somehow doubt, (don’t you?)

They ever drove around in market towns with the Maiden up and the windows down, in their parents car, with their air guitars turned up to twelve and strafing the crowd.

Is this metal, is this true? Is this what Def Leppard would do? Would they give up this easily? Or do Pour Some Sugar on me? Is this metal? Is this fake? When you’ve got decisions to make, do you sit back with a drink and work out what def Leppard would think?

I do. I still do.

And I want, and I need, and I love, Animal…