![]() ![]() Rick Allen thinks about how supportive the other members of his band were during his road to recovery and how he had to create a brand-new drum set to use. ![]() Just three months after his accident, Rick Allen began practicing for his return to the band.Ī few of his friends stop by his dressing room to offer him some words of encouragement and then it is time for his band, Def Leppard, to take the stage. How could he possibly give up drumming after it had been such an integral part of his life for so long? Rick dropped out of school when he was fifteen so that he could pursue his music and by the time he turned sixteen, Rick was performing with Def Leppard as a support act for AC/DC. Rick Allen began drumming when he was nine years old. He thinks back to the day that he left the hospital in 1985 and thinking that he didn’t know what his life could possibly be without drumming. “I wouldn’t be the person I am today, I wouldn’t be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn’t for the accident.” -Rick Allenīackstage at Monsters of Rock, Allen tells himself that he is ready for this come back and takes a few sips of some liquid courage to really convince himself. He was in the hospital for two days before his body rejected the reattachment and his arm was officially amputated. Rick Allen was rushed to the hospital and the doctors reattached his arm. ![]() The women also, in an attempt to save Rick’s arm, put his left arm in a bucket of ice so that it may potentially be reattached later. Luckily, there were some women nearby that witnessed the entire scene and called emergency responders. The car flipped multiple times before landing on its head and just as quickly as the accident started, it was over. Rick Allen was thrown through the open sunroof due to a faulty seatbelt. The Stingray slammed into a brick wall and started to flip. Rick Allen, who was driving an American left-sided car on an English left-sided road, misjudged how quickly he was coming up on a left-hand turn and lost control of the vehicle. Rick was cruising pretty fast in his sleek, black 1984 Corvette Stingray and decided to try and pass the car in front. Twenty months before this moment on December 31, 1984, Rick Allen was enjoying a beautiful, albeit, unseasonably warm New Year’s Eve drive to Sheffield with his then girlfriend, Miriam Barendsen. Will I be able to do this? How will the audience respond? How will the other bands react? A million thoughts rush through his head as he realizes that he is about to do something that had never been done before. Rick Allen was in his dressing room preparing for his comeback performance at Monsters of Rock. ![]()
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