In a recent conversation with
Jeremy White, Elliott notes that what genre Def Leppard was tagged with varied wildly depending on the time and location of the journalist doing it.
"So it's an interesting thing that people always lumped us into [NWOBHM]," Elliott said. "In America, for example, we got lumped into the hair metal thing. All of a sudden, we disappeared at the end of 1983 [after
Rick Allen's car accident], and we don't reappear until august '87 [and we're called hair metal]."
He continued: "Something happens in Los Angeles while we're living in a freaking windmill in Holland, and we get roped into it. It doesn't make any sense! I'd be the first to admit that with bands like Warrant, 'Cherry Pie' — come on, it sounds like '[Pour Some] Sugar [on Me].'"