{"id":31261,"date":"2025-01-20T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/vivian-campbell-misses-def-leppard-show-in-mexico-due-to-cancer-treatments\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:02:52","slug":"vivian-campbell-misses-def-leppard-show-in-mexico-due-to-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/vivian-campbell-misses-def-leppard-show-in-mexico-due-to-cancer-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivian Campbell misses Def Leppard show in Mexico due to cancer treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-20\/Getty_Viviancampbell_012025.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Denise Truscello\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Def Leppard<\/strong> returned to the stage Saturday, but they were without one of their key band members.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist <strong>Vivian Campbell<\/strong> did not perform at the band&#8217;s show at Feria Estatal De Le\u00f3n in Le\u00f3n, Mexico, and instead <strong>Phil Collen<\/strong>&#8216;s guitar tech\u00a0<strong>John Zocco<\/strong>\u00a0filled in.<\/p>\n<p>Fan-shot video posted to YouTube shows Def Leppard frontman <strong>Joe Elliott<\/strong> telling the crowd that Campbell had to miss the concert because\u00a0\u201che&#8217;s just recovering from some treatment for his cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Campbell revealed in June 2013 that he had Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma and had stem-cell therapy in June 2014. He later added that he was undergoing immunotherapy.\u00a0He announced in 2023 that chemotherapy had been added to his treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Def Leppard has several dates on the books for 2025. Their next show is May 15 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A complete list of dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/defleppard.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>defleppard.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise Truscello\/WireImage Def Leppard returned to the stage Saturday, but they were without one of their key band members. Guitarist Vivian Campbell did not perform at the band&#8217;s show at Feria Estatal De Le\u00f3n in Le\u00f3n, Mexico, and instead Phil Collen&#8216;s guitar tech\u00a0John Zocco\u00a0filled in. Fan-shot video posted to YouTube<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/vivian-campbell-misses-def-leppard-show-in-mexico-due-to-cancer-treatments\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}