

"Performing with DEF LEPPARD was awesome!" said Swift. "CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift And Def Leppard" DVD track listing is as follows: The DVD has special features that include extended and new interviews with the artists, and never-before-seen performances. Lead singer Joe Elliott and Swift swapped lyrics on such hit songs as "Photograph", "Hysteria", "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Picture To Burn" and "Love Story". Taped before a standing-room only audience in Nashville, Swift fulfilled her "childhood dream" when she walked onstage and performed with DEF LEPPARD. and Canada, including Sam's Club and on. The DVD is available exclusively at a low price of $11.88, in Wal-Mart stores in the U.S. "CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift And Def Leppard" includes 11 electrifying performances by 2008's best-selling artist among all genres of music and Great Britain's premier arena rock band.
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Watch video footage of the performance below.ĭEF LEPPARD, one of a handful of select groups including THE BEATLES, LED ZEPPELIN and PINK FLOYD that have been awarded the RIAA's ( Recording Industry Association of America) prestigious Diamond Award more than once, was nominated for three CMT Awards - one for its performance of "Photograph" with TAYLOR SWIFT, from "CMT Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift" one for "CMT Performance Of The Year" and the other for "Wide Open Country Video Of The Year." Their collaboration with Tim McGraw on "Nine Lives" also received a nomination as the "Wide Open Country Video Of The Year."ĬMT has partnered with Big Machine Records for the first DVD release of its critically acclaimed series "CMT Crossroads", when the episode featuring TAYLOR SWIFT and DEF LEPPARD hit stores on Tuesday, June 16.

"Country is a state of mind rather than a place, I think," Elliott, 49, said in his thick English accent.DEF LEPPARD performed its smash hit "Pour Some Sugar On Me" with country-music sensation TAYLOR SWIFT at the 2009 "CMT Music Awards" which premiered last night (Tuesday, June 16) on CMT and CMT.com. They teamed with Tim McGraw on the song Nine Lives from their latest album, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge. This is Def Leppard's second collaboration with a country star this year. 2 on the Billboard country chart (and No. Her second album, Fearless, comes out Tuesday. "There's a line in the song When Love & Hate Collide, the first line, and it says 'You could have a change of heart, if you would only change your mind.' I've always been obsessed with that line and the melody of it, and I get to sing that line, and I'm so excited," said Swift, whose self-titled debut album has sold 3 million copies with hits such as Our Song and Teardrops on My Guitar. A West Texas ghost town, recently used for film festivals, goes up for sale.Texas anglers catch a massive hammerhead shark weighing 1,000 pounds.Houston Astros shut down Michael Brantley after injury setback.

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