Def Leppard have been flying the flag for Britain overseas for a good few years. Forged in 1977 in the steel city of Sheffield, Leppard rose out of the influential New Wave Of British Heavy Metal to become the nation’s biggest rock export since Led Zeppelin, selling more than 100 million albums. “We’ve always been proud to be a British band,” singer Joe Elliott told us in 2008. “Most of our influences are British – Queen, Bowie, Bolan. Culturally it’s where we’re anchored.”
