The band’s six-month reunion tour wrapped up on Halloween 2008 in Pelham, Alabama .
On October 20, 2008, Sony’s catalog division Legacy Recordings released the album Playlist: The Very Best of Fuel on their Playlist series.
The first single from the album, ” My Turn “, premiered on October 13, 2008,
In October 2008, “Lump” was released on the video game Rock Band 2 . “Ladybug”, “Feather Pluck’n”, and “Dune Buggy” were issued as downloadable content for the game on November 4, 2008.
In October 2008, Def Leppard played with country star Taylor Swift in a taped show in Nashville, Tennessee , in a show called CMT Crossroads : Taylor Swift and Def Leppard.
The band continued to play more gigs while working on their next album. Meanwhile, Woomble started writing a column for Scottish newspaper The Sunday Herald and released an album with Kris Drever and John McCusker , entitled Before the Ruin , in September 2008.
On June 7, 2008, the band played Wembley Stadium , London, and was joined by Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin to play ” Rock and Roll ” (with Grohl on drums and Hawkins on vocals) and ” Ramble On ” (sung by Grohl, drums by Hawkins).…
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headlining the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore in August of that year
Six shows which were cancelled during the USA/Canada leg of their world tour due to illnesses affecting Joe Elliott and Phil Collen were rescheduled and played in August of that year.
IO went on the road several times and released their debut album, For the Masses , on 1 August 2008.