Do you remember any more about working on Def Leppards Pyromania?
TD: I remember a lot about that, yeah. Pyromania and, also, Hysteria I did a little bit of work on. BE: Oh, that I didn’t realize. TD: Well, I’d known Mutt Lange for awhile. He was a partner in Zomba, who were my publishing company. In fact, indirectly, I owe a lot to him for just getting discovered, because I’d sent some tapes in to Zomba, and they played them for Mutt, and Mutt said, “Well, the keyboard playing is fantastic. Is he available to come and do this Foreigner album I’m working on?” At the time, I was living as a busker and totally destitute, so it was very nice to get a call from New York, saying, “Would you come over and do a few days special work?” And then, when that album came out, my keyboard playing was very prominent and was a big change for Foreigner, and it was massive on the radio and stuff, and it attracted a lot of attention for me. And the flip side of it was that I’d also written a song for Lene Lovich that was getting played in colleges and in clubs… BE: “Ne
