While opening up ALICE COOPER's UK tour with his side project MAN RAZE, DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen spoke with Ian Harvey from Expressandstar.com about a number of topics including the recent cancellation of the band's US tour.

“Everyone’s fine,” Collen says. “We were going to take a year off and we decided to take it early. I think we needed a break to be quite honest. We are going to record, Def Leppard’s going to record at some point.

“We only finished the Def Leppard tour about a month ago. We were going to do another leg but we’re not now so that’s enabled Man Raze to do the Alice Cooper British tour at least. Alice Cooper’s people have been brilliant, you know, ‘Whatever you want to do’.”

Read the entire interview here.