Def Leppard‘s Live at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas Residency will see the Sheffield band return to the state of Nevada on 3rd February, and they’ve got new music to play. ‘Rejoice’ is out now as their latest single via EMI Records.
“This song’s been an amazing journey from concept to conclusion,” explained frontman Joe Elliott. “I said to Phil one day, ‘I’ve got this idea for a lyric where the narrator is at absolute rock bottom and wants to rise up to a higher level. Do you have a musical piece that might match with that?’ And he said, ‘As it happens, yes I do.'”
“I had this riff, this idea for a song a while ago actually,” added guitarist Phil Collen. “So when Joe came to me I created this drum loop with a tribal sound, and it fit perfectly with this other arrangement I had. I sent it to Joe and it was like magic; he sang straight over the top of it. And that’s how the song was formed.”
“Then we gave it to Ronan [McHugh] who’d done a proper drum loop with different sounds. It all started gelling and just sounded like a powerful chant. We love it. It’s hard rock for us. It’s got a bit more ‘oomph’ than stuff we’ve been doing for a while. It’s kind of magical.”
‘Rejoice’ is available via EMI Records now on all streaming platforms here, and you can check out the official lyric video here at RAMzine.
For those flush enough to get over to Caesars Palace, tickets are available here. Def Leppard will also tour the UK and Europe in June and July 2026, with Extreme as special guests.
