Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen addresses violent attack for the first time
Four Seasons hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, shortly after Def Leppard played a show at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel. A woman reportedly attempted to intervene in the assault, but was attacked too, although aDef Leppard drummer Rick Allen talks brutal attack l GMA
“I heard a couple of steps and then I just saw this [flash] and the next thing I knew was I was on the ground,” said Allen. “I landed on my backside… hit my head on the pavement.” Fearing his assailant would attack again, Allen recalls raising his hand in the air and saying: “I am no threat to you.”After the assault, Fort Lauderdale police arrested 19-year-old Max Hartley, charging him with two counts of battery and four counts of criminal mischief. Hartley has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
“I don’t think he knew who I was, but he must have seen that I wasn’t a threat because, you know, I’ve only got one arm,” Allen recalls. The drummer lost his left arm in a 1984
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