LADY Gaga has been rifling through her old man's record collection again to name her latest musical inspiration – Def Leppard.
She became hooked on the Sheffield rock band after her dad Joe blasted their vinyl to the family in New Jersey.
Gaga said: "With my music there's lots of really big Def Leppard-style melodies in the choruses but it's electronic dance music. I'd call it avant-garde techno rock. It is very hard and very edgy.
"There are a lot of rock influences on the album but not that it is rock music.
"It is an exploration of electronic music and techno songs but I have created a genre of metal/dance/techno/rock/pop music with a lot of anthemic choruses, because that is actually the music I love."
