![]() Initially this was gruesome rubbernecking combined with genuine curiosity as to how Allen would play the drums single-handedly. When I watched Def Leppard videos with friends in 1988, the thing we were most interested in was something that wasn’t there: Rick Allen’s left arm. And then I remembered that things are about to get considerably more tasteless.) ![]() (I was going to call it a “severance package” before good taste intervened. I would hazard that 99% of the world’s rock bands would cut their one-armed drummer loose before people were singing “Auld Lang Syne,” some with a more generous check than others. I should say up front that I am still a big fan of Def Leppard’s music, and that I hugely admire the band for the way they retained drummer Rick Allen as a member, even after he lost his left arm (in a car crash on New Year’s Eve, 1984). He doesn’t actually say they’re including the videos so they can pad out the countdown’s running time, but that’s the gist of it: “There are quite a few top-notch videos that you won’t see on this little countdown because they made it in just a little too late for the slow person who makes up our list to put them on, but they could easily be in the top 100 of 1989–like, for example, ‘Armageddon It’ from Def Leppard.” Kevin Seal explains that the top-100 countdown will, in fact, have more than 100 songs in it.
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