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Def Leppard

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7 окт 2025 :	DEF LEPPARD's VIVIAN CAMPBELL Reflects On His 12-Year Cancer Battle: 'I'm Not Afraid To Die'
20 сен 2025 :	DEF LEPPARD To Release 'Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield' In November
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9 сен 2025 :	See Pro-Shot Video Of DEF LEPPARD's Performance At BBC's 'Radio 2 In The Park'
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11 авг 2025 :	See HD Video Of DEF LEPPARD's Concert In Lincoln, California
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25 июл 2025 :	DEF LEPPARD On OZZY OSBOURNE's Final Performance: 'It Was Like Watching The King Of Rock Getting Worshipped By His Loving Audience'
18 июл 2025 :	Watch: TOM MORELLO Joins DEF LEPPARD On Stage At OTTAWA BLUESTFEST To Perform 'Just Like 73'
23 июн 2025 :	Watch: DEF LEPPARD Performs In Thackerville, Oklahoma During 2025 Tour
19 май 2025 :	Watch: VIVIAN CAMPBELL Plays First Show With DEF LEPPARD After Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplant
22 апр 2025 :	DEF LEPPARD's RICK ALLEN Is Still Dealing With Trauma Of Being Assaulted: 'Hopefully I Can Put It Behind Me Soon'
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7 окт 2025

DEF LEPPARD's VIVIAN CAMPBELL Reflects On His 12-Year Cancer Battle: 'I'm Not Afraid To Die'

In a new interview with the Fueled With Chris Cyr podcast, DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell was asked how being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2013 had changed his perspective on life and his approach to living it. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I can tell you it made me spend more money. 'Cause, as Jerry Seinfeld said, 'You can't drive money.' So as soon as I got — not as soon as, but within a year of having my cancer diagnosis, I went and bought a very expensive Porsche. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, that's a lot of money. It's a lot of money.' And I [thought], 'I could be dead next week.' Well, actually, there is a saying in Ireland: 'You're a long time dead.' So I sort of take it to heart. I'm a little bit reckless in that way. I have a lot of faith in the universe, that things will work out — financially, that's one of them, but also with regard to my cancer. I thought, 'Okay, this is the hand I've been dealt.' And as I see it, you can go one of two routes — you can capitulate to it or you can just live your life. And I decided to do the latter."

Vivian continued: "I have encountered people who have had a cancer diagnosis and they tend to take on all of the weight of that and really dwell on it and internalize about it and stuff. And it usually doesn't work out well for them. And I always try and talk people out of that. I also feel very, very fortunate because I got my cancer diagnosis early. And I've lost a lot of friends in recent years who got a diagnosis of, like, stage four and they were gone within a couple of years. I was very, very fortunate — I was diagnosed at stage 2b. And I probably could have been diagnosed at 2a because I knew for about a year and a half, something was very wrong with me."

Reflecting on his initial cancer diagnosis, Vivian said: "I kept going to my doctor and my doctor kept saying, 'Well, you know…' 'Cause I had this recurring illness, and I'd lost weight. And I was traveling — I was on tours all over the world, Australia, U.K. I kept getting the same sickness every six weeks or so, like this low-level thing. And you'd see a rock doc and they'd give you the same antibiotics. And six weeks later you'd be halfway across the world and have the same issue, see another doctor, get the same antibiotics. And so I went to see my GP [general practitioner] in L.A. when I finally got home from tour, and he said, 'Well, sometimes things linger.' And I said, 'I got this cough that is intermittent, but when it's there it's really persistent and prevalent.' And he said, 'Well, go see this respiratory doctor.' So long story short, I went to see this respiratory doctor for about eight months. I'd go once a month and he'd keep giving me a different inhaler and nasal spray, and he'd say, 'Well, try this one.' And then finally, after all those months, I went into his office and I said, 'Look, I don't want another inhaler. I don't want another nasal spray.' I said, 'I want a chest x-ray.' I said, 'If I've gotta pay you cash,' I said, 'Just let's do it.' And he said, 'Okay. Okay, we'll do an x-ray.' So I do a chest x-ray and he comes back into the office and he's goin'g, Hmm, wat are you doing this afternoon?' He said, 'I'd like you to get a CT scan.' And I said, 'Yeah, okay, I can do that.' And I went and did the scan. I went home. He called me that evening and said, 'I'm gonna have an oncologist call you tomorrow.' He said, 'There's something going on.' And I said, 'Yeah, no shit. I told you a year ago.' But in hindsight, I caught it early. So my health has been very, very closely monitored for years, unlike those friends of mine who have died in recent years because they were stage four when they found out. So that's luck of the Irish. I don't take that for granted."

Campbell went on to say that while a cancer diagnosis is a significant challenge for many, maintaining a positive attitude can have a profound impact on the road to recovery.

"My attitude, other than the first week or so when that oncologist called me and said, 'You've got cancer,' and I'm, like, 'Oh, my life is over.' It's not. It's just another thing you've gotta deal with," Vivian explained. "And attitude is so, so important to it. I've always been, 'Fuck you, cancer.' I'm just gonna deal with it. And I'm a strong person physically and mentally. My body is strong, and I've always continued to work out through it. I keep pushing myself. And mentally, I'm not afraid to die. I don't wanna die 'cause I've got kids and family. I've got a lot of people who depend on me, but I've never been afraid of it. And I just keep pushing at it and keep pushing back. And most importantly, I just keep living my life. Honestly, the hardest part of dealing with cancer in the last 12 or 13 years has been scheduling. I've got a tour. I've gotta fit all this stuff. I'm in two bands. I'm in LAST IN LINE, as well as DEF LEPPARD, so I've gotta plug in all these gaps. And so, really, honest to God, it's been the hardest part, is scheduling my treatments. But yeah, I consider myself very fortunate in every aspect of life."

This past June, Vivian said that he is "completely in remission for the first time" after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Campbell offered an update on his health during an appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk". He said at the time: "I've been very lucky, actually. I got an early diagnosis for Hodgkin's lymphoma 13 years ago, 12 years ago, something like that. [I went] through the mill with all sorts of chemo and immunotherapy and combination therapies, and 10 years ago I did an autologous stem cell transplant, which means using my own stem cells. That didn't work. The cancer kept coming back, and then a couple of years ago, it really got bad. So it was the first time in having to deal with it that I was seriously concerned about it. And the doctors told me really my only chance for of cure was to do a donor transplant. And that's exactly what I did. Starting last summer during our tour, I started doing more chemo in preparation for it. And then right after the tour, they started giving me very hardcore chemo leading up to the transplant. I was supposed to start after Thanksgiving, and I lost my donor 10 days beforehand. So that was a kick in the nuts. But I was very fortunate that they found me another one in December. And on New Year's Eve, I went into hospital. I was in for about three and a half weeks, and I did what has turned out to be a really, really successful transplant. So I did a PET scan in the middle of April and I'm a hundred percent clean, completely in remission for the first time in 12 or 13 years. And I am obviously overjoyed. You couldn't ask for more than that."

Campbell went on to say that he "had an incredible donor. There are 10 genetic markers, and this donor was a 10 out of 10," he explained. "A young man, actually. I don't get to know who he is for a couple of years, but a 21-year-old man. And they always prefer a youthful donor. Obviously, I'm gonna buy him a beer — or two or three."

Asked why a 21-year-old man would volunteer to donate bone marrow, Vivian said: "Why, indeed. I mean, it's just a testament to some strange guy's character. He decided to put his name on the registry, the donor registry, for no reason other than he's a good person. So there are a lot of good people out there, I'm glad to say.

"The transplant, actually, given its proper, clever medical term, is allogeneic hematopoietic [stem cell] transplant," Campbell added. "I have no idea what that means other than it means a donor transplant. But the process for the donor, if it were a family member, they'd probably be willing to undergo the complete surgery required to use actual bone marrow. With strangers, they use enriched stem cell blood. But what the donor has to do is still very, very involved. They've gotta take this stuff called Neupogen for about a week or a week and a half prior to donating the material. And Neupogen is pretty hardcore. I've done it myself about 10 years ago, and it generates your stem cell growth in the bone marrow itself. And it causes a lot of discomfort and bone pain. So it's not for nothing that somebody would do that. It is a pretty heavy lift, and I'm just glad there are some great people in the world."

Regarding what the process of receiving a bone marrow transplant entailed for him, Vivian said: "It essentially comes down to a blood transfusion. After the first week in the hospital, you get chemo every day and then a day of radiation and then on day seven, they actually do the transplant and then a day off after that to just recover and then two more days of chemo and just a week or three of sickness as your body fights this stuff. And it's not pleasant to go through it at all, but I would do it a hundred times more if I got the same results."

Asked why he can't contact the 21-year-old man who gave him his bone marrow for a couple years, Campbell said: "They just like to keep it anonymous. After two years, they give you the option to contact your donor, so you can reach out to them. I would imagine in this day and age it's via e-mail, and if they wanna correspond with you, they can, but they don't have to. But obviously, it's a life-saving proposition, so I'd certainly wanna express my gratitude."

When host Eddie Trunk noted that Campbell has had a remarkably positive attitude throughout his more-than-a-decade-long battle with cancer, Vivian said: "My glass has always been half full. I've always looked at life that way, and I also believe you play the hand you're dealt. And in any situation in life, there's really only two ways you can respond to something: you can go as positive as possible or go as negative as possible. To be honest, as it relates to cancer, I've unfortunately known a bunch of people who have gotten the cancer diagnosis and have chosen to be very gloomy and pessimistic in their outlook towards their prognosis, and it usually follows that route. I mean, what you put out in the universe is usually what you get back. So I just like to deal with it. Plus every cloud has a silver lining. I actually do think that my health has benefited from this. I mean, my health has been extremely closely monitored for the last 12 or 13 years and will continue to be for at least a couple more years. So I've lost, myself, so many friends in recent years. Even thinking about [my side band] LAST IN LINE, we lost [original LAST IN LINE bassist] Jimmy Bain to cancer. We lost our manager, Steve Strange, to cancer. Both of those guys — Jimmy never even actually got a diagnosis. It was only after the fact, in the autopsy, it was determined he had lung cancer. Steve Strange, our LAST IN LINE manager, died within two, two and a half years of getting his diagnosis, because so many people, unfortunately, don't get diagnosed until they're stage four or something. I was very, very fortunate that I knew something was going on with me and I kept at my doctors. I said, 'Look, something's going on here. You've gotta give me an X-ray. You've gotta give me a CAT scan. You've gotta figure this out.' And when they eventually did, about a year and a half after I'd begun to pester them, 'cause it was a solid 18 months that I knew something was wrong with, and it was a solid 18 months before they actually put me in touch with the right people and I got my diagnosis. So I was fortunate that I caught it early. And I do strongly advocate for people to be advocates for their own health."

He added: "Doctors are very, very clever — they go to med med school for a long time, and they're very well trained, but they're not inside your actual body. Only we really know what's going on with us. And I would urge anyone out there listening, if they think there's something going with their body to go see their doctor, and trust the science, trust the medicine. And it's absolutely amazing what they can do."

Campbell — who before joining DEF LEPPARD in 1992 was well known for his work with DIO and WHITESNAKE — went public with his Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis in June 2013.

Vivian underwent three separate spells of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, only for his Hodgkin's lymphoma to return.

Six years ago, Campbell underwent spine surgery.

Vivian and his DEF LEPPARD bandmates were finally inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in March 2019 — 14 years after the British rockers first became eligible.

DEF LEPPARD's latest album, "Diamond Star Halos", arrived in May 2022 via UMe.

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