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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere’s what Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones taught Def Leppard<\/p>\n
Phil Collen, Joe Elliott and Rick Savage of Def Leppard chat with USA TODAY’s Melissa Ruggieri about the band’s new album and upcoming tour.<\/p>\n
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. \u2013 The Rolling Stones<\/a> are speaking in \u201cForeign Tongues.\u201d<\/p>\n On May 5, the rock icons announced their 25th studio album \u201cForeign Tongues<\/a>\u201d (out July 10), which they teased with two bluesy new songs: rollicking lead single \u201cIn the Stars<\/a>\u201d and the tempestuous \u201cRough and Twisted<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n That same day, Mick Jagger<\/a>, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood touched down at the Weylin in Williamsburg for an afternoon launch party, greeting fans at the cavernous, historic former bank-turned-event space. Inside, projections of the Stones\u2019 famous tongue-and-lips logo danced across the ceiling, and guests were served a selection of passed hors d’oeuvres and cocktails poured with the group\u2019s signature Crossfire Hurricane rum<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The band joined superfan Conan O\u2019Brien for a freewheeling, roughly half-hour conversation, in which they discussed the recording process and how they stay vital more than 60 years into the Stones\u2019 career together. O\u2019Brien began by asking Jagger, 82, how he still sounds exactly as he did when he was in his 20s.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I was taking a lot of drugs back in 1968,\u201d Jagger quipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an intervention, by the way,\u201d O\u2019Brien volleyed back.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOh, God, not another one!\u201d Jagger exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. \u201cNo, the secret is practice, I think. It\u2019s simple.\u201d<\/p>\n Richards, 82, meanwhile, spoke at length about he comes up with his classic guitar riffs.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t write em, you can\u2019t force em \u2014 they come to you,\u201d Richards said into his microphone, before apologizing to the crowd that most of his response was inaudible. \u201cI keep waving this thing around! I\u2019m so sorry, ladies and gentlemen.\u201d<\/p>\n Jagger is known for his athletic concert performances, and he shared that will often extend to the studio, where he\u2019ll carry around a hand mic and walk around while recording.\u00a0<\/p>\n