Like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes return they did though with new frontman Steve Hogarth in tow. This was a defining point and one from which there was possibly no return. It was a moment akin to Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis. Having risen to the level of arena band on the back of a series of ever more successful albums, albeit forever labelled as unfashionable, the cards were marked and after what would be a final tour in support of their new album, Clutching At Straws, their singer Fish left the band. Marillion faced this problem when their lead singer left. They become the albatross around your neck and you’re forever destined to fight off those ever-tiring questions from lazy journalists and even fans. The loss of a key member tends to be the case here (although one could also point at a hit single that bears no relation to anything else in a band’s catalogue). Other moments become the defining point of a whole career and a band faces an uphill task in moving on. Def Leppard faced their fair share of these and one would have to be hard hearted to not to recognise how they rose again in the face of such adversity. Perhaps the moments that mean the most are the accidental ones or the ones that you have no hand in altering. Some moments are subtle, others hit like a sledgehammer, they all leave some sort of impact. Most bands only manage one, whereas others become a byword for happenstance and live from day to day under an endless parade of media scrutiny as they lurch from one “happening” to another. There are certain key moments in a band’s life which end up defining them for the rest of their career.
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