{"id":26662,"date":"2018-12-18T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26662"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:19:01","slug":"best-of-new-christmas-music-from-def-leppard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/best-of-new-christmas-music-from-def-leppard\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas  Music from Def Leppard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song that does my heart much good. Aging rockers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defleppard.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Def Leppard<\/a> &#8212; a group I have been a rabid fan of for decades and that I can glad admit has annoyed both my mother and my children &#8212; has released a pretty decent <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> rock ballad called <em>We All Need <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? It rocks:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H9UkvOrDx1M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just months away now from their well-deserved induction in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Def Leppard released the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> single as part of their latest &#8220;best of&#8221; album. Their induction into the hall of fame was driven by online fan polls.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that after all these years, Def Leppard still rocks.<\/p>\n<p>To me this song proves a couple of things, all of them good.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, these guys all look so much older now. Yet they sound as good as ever. Bravo to them for resisting the cry to grow up.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly it proves that <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music belongs to every kind of artist. That is the miracle of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music. No matter your taste, there is always something to find in common through <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No, this song isn&#8217;t going down with the classics of Bing, Andy, and Elvis. But its a good listen, a positive message, and a festive addition to this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a new Christmas song that does my heart much good. Aging rockers Def Leppard &#8212; a group I have been a rabid fan of for decades and that I can glad admit has annoyed both my mother and my children &#8212; has released a pretty decent Christmas rock ballad called We All Need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[727],"class_list":["post-26662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-def-leppard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}