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Def Leppard's Joe Elliott looks back on the story behind their first UK and US hit single, Animal, from 1987.

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00:16My recollection of animal is fading somewhat because it's a long time ago.
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00:36The one thing about that song, as opposed to everything else on the album or anybody that's ever been in a band and had a song that they've lived with for a while but then ended up rewriting parts of it, I sang the lead vocal to a completely different backing track.
00:51It was vastly different.
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01:27I remember we were there when Live Aid was on, we were there for the Bastille day and
01:31we were working in this little studio and I did the vocal, we spent a couple of days
01:34just experimenting with it and then nailing it down.
01:38And then when we took the tapes back to Holland where we went to finish the album off, between
01:42Holland and Dublin, we kind of grew tired of the backing track, but everybody was commenting
01:48on how much they liked the lead vocal, so I think it would have been much, just said
01:52well look, what I'm going to do is I'm going to strip all the track off and just leave
01:56the vocal playing against the drums, I want you guys to just play underneath and see
02:01what you come up with and totally updated the song to the point where it's almost timeless
02:06now, whereas before it was starting to age even before it was released in its original form.
02:26I'm going to keep you playing against the building and when it was arranged and I how I
02:32would exist.
02:33And then I decided to take the timed gotcha to the552 reiterated that, and then kill me inside,
02:36when you were everything we hubbed.
02:38Now we found a lot of questions, I have a lot of questions that was finally answered details,
02:41and we just came back and a lot of questions, I have a lot of questions when I quit, and so now you
02:46have a tapestry single criticize weren't whatever.
02:47At the same time there was any act, but...
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