Def Leppard performed their first present of 2025 on Saturday night time in Leon, Mexico, however one of many band’s members was noticeably absent from the group.
“Vivian Campbell can’t be with us tonight,” frontman Joe Elliott defined to the gang in attendance. “He’s simply recovering from some remedy for his most cancers. So, manfully, please say hey to the man that’s standing in for him tonight, Mr. John Zocco on guitar.”
Zocco is the guitar tech for Phil Collen. He additionally serves as a photographer for Def Leppard and has been a touring guitarist for a protracted record of rock and nation artists.
Vivian Campbell’s Ongoing Most cancers Battle
Campbell has been a part of Def Leppard since 1992, having beforehand performed with Whitesnake and Dio. In 2013 he went public together with his Hodgkin’s lymphoma prognosis, and he’s continued battling the illness ever since.
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The rocker underwent stem-cell remedy in 2014, and in 2015 he was a part of a scientific trial for the anti-cancer treatment pembrolizumab. He continued with immunotherapy remedy by means of 2022, at which level he switched to a mix of immunotherapy and chemotherapy.
Campbell has remained open together with his most cancers battle all through the ordeal.
“There is no disgrace in having most cancers. There is no disgrace in going by means of remedy and sporting the consequences of your remedy bodily,” he famous in a 2023 interview on the Lymphoma Voices podcast, alluding to the hair loss he’d suffered on account of chemo. “And for me as a musician, there was one thing that simply allowed me to go on stage and simply give attention to the essence of who I’m as a musician and as an individual and to only put all of it on the market.”
Def Leppard’s subsequent efficiency is scheduled for Might 15 in Puerto Rico.
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