"When we decided to do (the live album), it just got said -- I don't know by who -- 'Why don't we chuck a couple of new songs on the end?'" frontman Joe Elliott tells Billboard.com. "And that two became three, and in fairness it could've been four if we'd just had a little bit more time. But we wanted to tour this summer, so any fourth or fifth song we had brewing, we'll save them for the next record."
Elliott composed "Undefeated," which he describes as "a very Queen-type vocal thing. It even features piano and stuff." Guitarist Phil Collen's "All About Believin' " is "a pop-rock song," while bassist Rick Savage's "Kings of the World" is "a big, epic, rock anthem that will sound great in arenas and stadiums all over the world -- kind of 'We Will Rock You' with guitars, if you like."
They're all very different to each other," Elliott adds. "They don't sound specifically like any previous Def Leppard songs, but they sound like Def Leppard songs. They have to have our identity on them, otherwise they might as well be Tom Waits or R.E.M. We have a signature sound that we're not scared of anymore."
"Mirrorball" marks the first official live album in Def Leppard's discography. The group has released a selection of live B-sides over the years and has included live recordings on deluxe editions of its albums, including an edited 1983 show from the Los Angeles Forum for the 2009 "Pyromania" reissue.
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