Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell has missed the band’s first present of 2025, held on the Auditorio de la Feria León Guanajuato, a 4500-capacity area in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Joe Elliott knowledgeable the gang that Campbell – who was changed on the night time by Phil Collen’s guitar technician John Zocco – was unable to carry out as he was receiving therapy for most cancers.
Zocco additionally stuffed in for Campbell on the band’s final present, a shock efficiency on the Daimler Truck Buyer Appreciation Occasion on the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in October. The Nashville efficiency occurred simply over a month after Campbell efficiently accomplished 27 dates on Def Leppard’s Summer time Stadium Tour.
Campbell introduced he was affected by Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013, and has been battling the situation ever since.
“I am nonetheless coping with the lymphoma,” he advised the Lymphoma Voices podcast in 2023. “It is form of like – it is an American expression – Whac-a-Mole. You beat one thing again after which it pops up someplace else. Nevertheless it’s been a reasonably constant battle, but it surely hasn’t been too troublesome for me. I cope with it effective. I have been capable of reside my life.
“For the majority of these 10 years, I really was doing immunotherapy. Beginning in June of 2015, I began taking a drug known as pembrolizumab. I keep in mind on the time my docs wished me to do radiation and possibly a mixture of radiation and chemo. And I simply thought, ‘Properly, let’s simply do that immunotherapy factor. Let’s have a look at if this works.’ So I managed to get on the trial. I am completely happy to say that it labored nicely for me.”
Def Leppard’s subsequent scheduled present is on the San Juan Coliseo de Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico, on Could 15. Full dates beneath.
Dec Leppard 2025 tour dates
Could 15: San Juan Coliseo de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Could 17: Ocean Metropolis Boardwalk Rock 2025, MD
Jun 19: Milwaukee Summerfest, WI
Jun 21: Thackerville Lucas Oil Dwell at WinStar World On line casino and Resort, OK
Jun 28: Atlantic Metropolis Borgata Occasion Middle, NJ
Jul 03: Uncasville Mohegan Solar Enviornment, CT
Jul 13: Craven Nation Thunder Craven, Canada
Aug 14: Des Moines Iowa State Truthful, IA
Aug 16: Springfield Illinois State Truthful, IL
Aug 20: Highland Yaamava’ Theater, CA