Def Leppard Drummer Rick Allen Says He Was Attacked Outside Florida Hotel in March

Def Leppard Drummer Rick Allen Says He Was Attacked Outside Florida Hotel in March
Rick Allen arrives at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Barclays Center in New York on March 29, 2019. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
The Associated Press
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen says he was blindsided during 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. “I landed on my backside—hit my head on the pavement.”