Emergency Causes Phil Collen To Leave Def Leppard Tour

A family emergency has caused Phil Collen to leave the Def Leppard tour. Trixter guitarist Steve Brown is filling in until Phil can resume work with the band. Blabbermouth notes that Collen's wife is pregnant.

Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott made a video statement about 30 minutes before the Hershey, PA stop announcing Collen's absence "for tonight and the immediate future." Hopefully everything is okay and Phil will be back with the band soon.

Phil Collen - Delta Deep

Phil Collen has left Def Leppard's tour: https://t.co/gSbhvmK5S8

— UltimateClassicRock (@UltClassicRock) May 26, 2018

Comments

[Kixchix]

Hope all is ok with Phil and family. He seems like an amiable and reasonable bloke. If it relates to his wife’s pregnancy (gossip is all I have to this statement) many indicators point towards complications. If that be the case, best thoughts to Phill and his family. Either way it’s probably not a “good” situation. Hope all is well as can be.

[Him]

I make fun of Oi(ly) Boy. But I do hope all is well with his family. So I second Kixchix's comments.