We’ve headlined major festivals but Glastonbury is something else – we’d love to do it, says Def Leppard’s Rick Savage
thesun.co.ukTHEY’VE sold over 100million records, been inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and are currently on their biggest ever stadium tour.
But there’s one major event that’s eluded Brit rockers Def Leppard over their 45-year career - Glastonbury Festival. Bassist and founding member Rick Savage, 61, admits the Sheffield five-piece would love to headline Worthy Farm - but feels they still face a fight to win over the Glasto crowd.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun from his home in Portugal, he says: “It would be cool to be accepted in that family of musicians, if you like. “We’ve done Donington; Donington and Def Leppard goes hand in hand, we’ve done the Reading Festival back in the day, but to even be considered to do Glastonbury means something else. “Even after all these years we feel we still need to shed that tag of being in the heavy metal bracket.
We didn’t think we were heavy metal back in the late 70s and we’ve been battling this concept ever since. It is what it is, people perceive you as they want to perceive you, as is their right.” Metallica broke a glass ceiling for heavy metal bands when they headlined the Pyramid Stage in 2014, delivering an epic headbanging set in the face of a fierce backlash from festival purists.
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