DEF LEPPARD’s PHIL COLLEN Reveals Best Piece Of Advice He Has Ever Gotten In Music Business

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Asked to name the best piece of advice he ever got, Collen said: “I get great advice all the time. Ian Hunter… When Mick Ronson died, we had a benefit at Hammersmith Odeon. And it was Roger Taylor from QUEEN, it was a bunch of guys. Mick Jones from THE CLASH — lots of different bands. Me and Joe [Elliott, DEF LEPPARD] had a band called the CYBERNAUTS, which was [David] Bowie’s Trevor Bolder, Woody Woodmansey on drums, and we’d done all these Bowie songs. When we did that, I was rehearsing with Ian, and Ian said, ‘When you’re at 55, you stop caring, you stop worrying about things as a man.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘You don’t worry if you’re being judged by a 16- or a 20-year-old, no matter how hip they are. You really don’t care.’ And I said, ‘Oh, really? Okay.’ And around 50, or whenever it was, absolutely, you stop worrying about it, and it’s such a brilliant thing.

 

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