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Joe Elliott and Phil Collen of Def Leppard are featured performers on “Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute To Bad Company,” the inaugural official tribute album dedicated to the legendary band Bad Company, as per Blabbermouth. This project commemorates the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and their more than fifty-year musical legacy.
Elliott and Collen reinterpret Bad Company‘s “Seagull” with a compelling and emotionally intense rendition. Their version emphasizes a robust, heartfelt approach, performed alongside original band members Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke, highlighting their admiration for the iconic group.
In the accompanying video, Elliott and Collen express their respect and admiration for Bad Company.
Paul Rodgers’s voice, he could pretty much do anything he wanted. He’s got one of those classic archetype voices that you want. He was one of those early blues rock singers that everyone tried to emulate. So I think you would listen to him. You’d listen to the stories he would tell. So that’s why it would put that over. And they were cool. That was the thing about them. Free were really cool when they came out, and Bad Company just pushed that even a little bit further. So, there was a coolness factor to it as well. And his voice just slayed it. – Phil Collen
Paul Rodgers is indeed one of the greatest rock vocalists of all time, and the reason for that is he’s not inspired by rock. He was inspired by R&B. If you talk to Paul Rodgers, he’ll tell you that the people he grew up listening to was Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, and he turned it into rock. People like me from the next generation down, we sang rock influenced by rock, so it was always gonna be more second generation. I took absolutely nothing except admiration from Paul Rodgers because I don’t have anything like his voice. He’s a soul singer. I’m not. I can sing a Paul Rodgerssong — in fact, I’ve sung a couple. I did ‘Little Bit Of Love’ by Free on [Def Leppard’s] ‘Yeah!’ album. In fact, Paul really likes our version of that. And, of course, more recently, ‘Seagull’ for this Bad Company tribute album, which is coincidentally called ‘Can’t Get Enough’. So massive amounts of admiration. Stage presence — I actually thought his stage presence when he was fronting Queen was more extravagant than he ever was in Bad Co, ’cause he occasionally played guitar and more so than any footage I ever saw of Free. So, again, but two different styles, I didn’t really take anything from it other than I just admired it. – Joe Elliott
