"I know that I'm not going to be playing music in a band forever," said Allen. "But while I am, I plan on making as many people happy as I possibly can. And this is my time. This is my opportunity."
Rick Allen, Def Leppard drummer, says he was attacked outside Florida hotel in March
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“Having built my own business from the ground up, I know how difficult that process can be," Mr. Allen said in a statement.
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![Rick Allen, of Def Leppard, arrives at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Barclays Center on March 29, 2019, in New York. Allen says he was blindsided by an attack on him outside a South Florida hotel following a concert earlier this year. “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,” Allen, 59, told ABC's “Good Morning America” in an interview broadcast Monday, May 22, 2023. “I landed on my backside… hit my head on the pavement.” (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)](https://twt-thumbs.washtimes.com/media/image/2023/05/22/Def_Leppard_Drummer_Attacked_32487--d7a5a_c0-227-3276-2136_s652x380.jpg?ca88164d84d93739c66471a670d52136cbb343bc)
