Joe Elliott
Joe Elliott
Joseph Thomas "Joe" Elliottis an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down 'n' Outz. He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth1 August 1959
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We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
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In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
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Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.
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There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
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I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
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We wanted to show people, absolutely and as a matter of fact, where we came from. We wanted to put to bed the idea that we were weaned on Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Those were the bands our older brothers listened to. Our true love was always the three-minute pop song.
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Our only rule was that everything had to come from before we signed our first record deal. The Blondie song ('Hanging on the Telephone') is the most modern one on there. Most of it ended up being from between 1970 and 1973.
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I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.
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I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.
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I just like being around marching band, and Southside was the first that came to mind,
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That's what this tour is, a celebration of our 25 years. We concentrate on the hits, the first time we've done that on tour. We have to drop some of them (for time), but that's a great position to be in. It's like a football coach who has a team where everyone is fit and ready to play.
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That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.
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It's a great honour to have the dean of Coventry Cathedral conducting the service. It will be a very moving occasion.
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This is the most bizarre call I've ever had. It was something you'd see on 'COPS,' but not something you go out and do.