lifestyle TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015 Music & Movies Joe Elliott on maintaining the stamina to play live ef Leppard frontman Joe Elliott understands doesn’t matter anymore. That’s the one thing that’s ‘77, ‘78, there was no such thing as a band that had that the working life of a rock band no longer become a pattern over the last seven or eight years, been around for 35 years. Dcomes with an expiration date. All that’s with (Paul) McCartney still out there and the (Rolling) required is to make great music and stay healthy to Stones still out there, and even Aerosmith and AC/DC AP: How did the new album come about? endure the rigors of the road. Elliott said it was impor- getting up there. Billy Joel, Elton John. These are peo- Elliott: We got together in February 2014 for a tant to tweak the mantra of sex, drugs and roll ‘n’ roll ple that have been around since the ‘60s and they’re month with the full intention of ... just recording a in order to sustain the band’s longevity, which has still selling stadiums out. There’s nobody else that couple of songs, maybe putting out an EP. By the end covered four decades. “At the end of the day, the first seems to be coming through to take over. They’re not of February, we got 12 songs written, so we (were) like thing that needs to go out of that phrase is the drugs. stepping aside, they’re fighting. They’re fighting us, ‘Oh, ahh, I think we’ve got an album here’ by accident The rest can stay, but let’s make rock and roll the and we’re fighting the generation below us. rather than design. important thing,” said Elliot, who will go on a tour of North America with Styx and Tesla this year. The US AP: Why do you keep going back out on the AP: Will you play anything from the new album leg of the tour will kick off June 23 in Tampa, Florida. road? on this tour? Def Leppard was formed in 1977. The English rock Elliott: My generation grew up watching bands Elliott: We won’t be playing any new songs band achieved superstardom in 1983 with live. Yeah, we loved albums, but we never thought because they just end up on YouTube in a really bad “Pyromania,” followed by “Hysteria” a few years later. about how they were made. They just appeared. And version filmed on somebody’s iPhone. We’ll play them These albums generated numerous rock anthems you’d see the tours being announced. ... I think that’s when the album comes out and not just let them drift including “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Foolin.’” In a what attracted me to it. Seeing those people onstage out into the ether. recent interview with The Associated Press, Elliott and how us down on the floor were looking and talked about the band’s continued drive, a new album cheering and going crazy, thinking this is pretty cool. AP: Has there been a shift in the so-called “rock changed. Music is very important, but family is more and that 1976 Jethro Tull song about an aging rocker. I’d like some of that. I think that it’s the attraction of star” lifestyle? Joe Elliott poses dur- important. Let’s be honest, we have to juggle both. It’s playing in front of people and creating music so you Elliott: We weren’t monks in the 1980s, but we ing an interview in a case of getting everybody onboard. — AP AP: Is Jethro Tull’s song “Too Old to Rock and can go out and do that is what keeps us going. weren’t as bad as everybody made out. We aren’t as New York. — AP Roll: Too Young to Die!” still relevant? boring as people might think, but we’re not exactly Elliott: He was probably just in his late 20s when AP: Did you have any idea that you would Motley Crue. ... When we were doing ‘Pyromania’ and he wrote it. Now (Jethro Tull frontman) Ian Anderson remain relevant for so long? ‘Hysteria,’ we were all single and we didn’t have kids. is in his 60s and still making great music. ... Age Elliott: No, not at all. When we first got together in Now we’re all married with children, so life has Malala Yousafzai documentary James McAvoy holds the award for Best British Film. — AP photos Andy Serkis holds the award for Best Actor. bought by Fox Searchlight ox Searchlight has acquired worldwide Utley. “Her bravery in the face of adversity rights to the documentary “He Named brought us to tears. The chance to bring her FMe Malala” for release later year. The story to a global audience will be an honor for movie explores the Pakistani student activist all of us here at Searchlight.” who survived a Taliban assassination attempt, Executive producers include Mohamed Al became a campaigner for teh rights of chil- Mubarak and Michael Garin from Image dren worldwide and was named the Nation Abu Dhabi and Jeff Skoll for Participant youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Media. The film will also launch an interna- “Waiting for Superman” director Davis tional advocacy and fundraising campaign in Guggenheim helmed. The deal covers all mar- partnership with the Malala Fund, Malala’s kets except for French-speaking territories. nonprofit organization working to empower Studiocanal will distribute the film in France. adolescent girls globally through a quality “He Named Me Malala” is produced by secondary education. The deal was brokered Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald under by Fox Searchlight’s Tony Safford, Megan their long-term production partnership with O’Brien and Ray Strache with Julian Zajfen at Image Nation Abu Dhabi and co-financed by Ziffren Brittenham, which represented the Participant Media. “Malala’s incredible journey filmmakers. — Reuters is both heartbreaking and inspiring,” said Fox Searchloght toppers Steve Gilula and Nancy Christopher Nolan holds the award for Best Director as he poses for photogra- Karen Gillan celebrates with her Best Female Thai court lifts ban phers alongside Jessica Chastain. Newcomer Award. on ‘Fast & Furious’ Thai court yesterday lifted a ban on It was not immediately possible to reach the latest installment in “The Fast the court or UIP for comment. Thai fans of Aand the Furious” blockbuster fran- the popular films had reacted furiously to chise, a lawyer said, following a contract news of the ban last week, with thousands dispute with a local actor. “Fast and Furious joining a Facebook page calling for the 7”, due to open in Thai cinemas on April 1, court to lift the injunction. Jaa rose from a was blocked by a court injunction poor background in Thailand’s impover- Thursday after a Thai movie studio filed a ished northeast to become one of the lawsuit alleging that local film star Tony Jaa country’s best-known “Muay Thai” martial was in breach of contract for appearing in artists. He plays a villain in the latest “Fast the film. and Furious” title and has a scene fighting But it will now open in cinemas as longterm franchise star Paul Walker. scheduled tomorrow, Suwat Apaipakdi, a Walker was himself killed in November lawyer for the studio Sahamongkol Film 2013, having completed much of his part in International, told AFP. The Civil Court of filming the seventh installment, when a car Thailand in Bangkok ruled that “the tem- he was riding in with another man crashed porary banning order would affect other and burst into flames. The first “Fast and actors-therefore the court has cancelled Furious” movie appeared in 2001. The the temporary banning”, he said. Suwat series, with its focus on fast cars, tough added that his client is still seeking 1.6 bil- guys, sexy starlets and exotic locales, is one lion baht ($49 million) damages from Jaa, of Hollywood’s most successful global fran- film studio Universal Pictures and local dis- chises. — AFP tributor United International Pictures (UIP) because the actor was committed to Sahamongkol in an exclusive contract until 2023. Olga Kurylenko poses for photographers. Ralph Fiennes holds the award for Empire Legend as he poses for photographers alongside Liam Neeson. Academy buys ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ shuttle for $344,000 t looks like the Academy is ramping up its collec- Clavius by unknown aliens. The model is approxi- students. Other items at the auctions included cos- tion for the upcoming Academy Museum of mately 32” high, 27” wide and 28” deep with a diam- tumes from “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Captain IMotion Pictures, nabbing the Aries 1B Trans- eter of 94”. America: The First Avenger,” “August: Osage County” Lunar Space Shuttle from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” According to the auction house, the director of and “St. Vincent,” along with hundreds more pieces The Academy bought the model at the Premiere the landmark 1968 film, Stanley Kubrick, purposely of memorabilia. The Academy Museum of Motion Prop’s Hollywood Extravaganza Auction on destroyed most of the props, sets, models and cos- Pictures is set to open in late 2017, with construc- Saturday for a sizable $344,000. The shuttle can be tumes from the movie so that they could not be tion set to start this summer. — Reuters seen at length in a memorable sequence in “2001,” used for other films. The shuttle, however, survived, as it transports Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (William with an art teacher acquiring it in 1975 under an Actor Vin Diesel poses during the photo call of the movie ‘Fast and Furious 5’, in Sylvester) from the International Space Station to agreement that the electronics be removed from Rome.