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Richard John Cyril Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English musician who has been the drummer of the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in January 1985 and continued to play with the band, which went on to its most commercially successful phase. He is known as "The Thunder God" by fans.
Rick Allen, the drummer for the rock band Def Leppard, suffered a head injury on Monday when he was attacked outside his hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.According to a police report released by ...
Allen lost his arm in a 1984 car accident. Allen was in town as Def Leppard co-headlined a show with Mötley Crüe on Sunday. A rep for the band had no comment when reached by Yahoo.
After suffering an attack two months ago, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen is feeling grateful.The 59-year-old rocker, whose left arm was severed in a 1984 car crash, was attacked in March while on ...
Def Leppard’s one-armed drummer Rick Allen was attacked Monday by an apparent stranger outside the Four Seasons Hotel in Fort Lauderdale Beach, FL, with police saying Allen suffered a head ...
Rich helped out Def Leppard in August 1986 and played alongside Rick Allen who had lost his left arm in a car accident in December 1984. However, during the band's warm-up tour of Ireland, Rich missed a gig and the rest of the band realised Allen could drum alone.
Simmons made a special kit SDS9 for Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen following Allen's loss of his left arm in a car accident. Allen and Simmons spent over a year developing a kit that used foot pedals to compensate for his missing arm. [citation needed] James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem used a Simmons SDSV on several of his albums.
Def Leppard's one-armed drummer, Rick Allen, was injured last weekend in Florida when a 19-year-old spring breaker attacked him outside the Four Seasons Hotel. ... Allen has only one arm due to a ...