Rick Allen
Rick Allen
Drummer with the rock band Def Leppard, known for his talents despite the complete loss of his left arm early in his career.
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth1 November 1963
CityDronfield, England
emphasis good larger life nice return
The emphasis is back on really good songs. And it's nice to return to our larger than life sound.
encouragement play people
If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play
dublin
I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
albums appreciate buy buying fact given grammy industry means mtv nice people recognized records though
We do appreciate this kind of success, and it means more to us than a Grammy or an MTV Award. It means the people who buy your records have given (the award) to you. Though it's nice to be recognized with industry awards, the fact that people are buying the albums still means so much.
anybody aware based credible evidence source three
There is no evidence that I have been aware of, or anybody has made me aware of. I mean, we had Glendon here for two-and-a-half, three years and he's just not a real credible source for information, based on our experience.
funny glad others past seen time
But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.
booze brought certainly
I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.
aware beneficial maybe obviously time wanting
I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it.
casualty forgot major
But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.