Backstreet Boys Given Props By Def Leppard

SweetDAngel at BSBblvd.coom says, "I'm a HUGE Def Leppard fan and I was just on there official site looking around. I came across an interview with their bass player, Rick Savage, where he mentions BSB. I probably like BSB so much because they remind me a lot of Def because of their layered harmonies. Nick's solo album is extremely Def Leppard sounding."

Here is the part of the interview where Savage mentions BSB.

He is asked, "Teaming up with the Swedish songwriters and certain others, what was the theory behind that? Were you trying to get into the untapped gay market or deliberately appeal to a younger market, or just a different song writing perspective totally?"

Savage responds, "'Untapped gay market'!!! I'll tell you what it was. When I first heard the songs and I heard some of the other songs that those guys had written, they just sounded like mini-Mutt Lange's. The ideas, the way they structured the songs - Andreas Carlsson, Per Aldeheim and obviously Max Martin. They used to be in hardrock bands when they were younger and were very much influenced by what Def Leppard were doing in the eighties. And they've taken that on to such an extent that Max Martin made Backstreet Boys very famous. A lot of the Backstreet Boys stuff, if you listen to it, is very much like a lot of stuff Def Leppard do, minus the guitars. "POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME" could've been a Backstreet Boys song. The big Backstreet Boys song - "LARGER THAN LIFE" I think it's called - but, given to us, we could've done it and people wouldn't have thought it was completely different."

To find it, follow the link and scroll down to GORDON REPORTS. Then go to GORDON INTERVIEWS SAV (PART 1). Click on view. Then you're at the interview. The BSB part of the interview is about 5 questions from the bottom.

Link: http://www.defleppard.com/backstage/index_gordon.html

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