Tens of thousands of music lovers flocked to Hylands Park in Chelmsford, UK, for this year’s Radio 2 In The Park festival, with Def Leppard as the main act on Sunday night (September 7). As reported by blabbermouth.net, in an interview with The Telegraph, Joe Elliott, the singer of the band, was asked if he ever imagined his band, which formed with Iron Maiden and Saxon as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement in the 1980s, would become a Radio 2 act.
Well, seeing as Radio 2 is now a grown-up Radio 1, I would hope so. If they’re going to play Oasis and Blur, and Bon Jovi and Queen and Bowie, why not? We’ve had hit singles — 17 of them. We’re not Golden Earring with the one, or Argent with the two. We’ve had a few. So I would hope we would be on Radio 2.