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About Me

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"There are times I don't speak to a friend for four or five months, yet we can pick up the thread of conversation as though it were yesterday we last spoke" JOE
"When I was in school, I used to write imaginary reviews of gigs instead of English essays" -- Joe Elliott
"I come alive once I hit the stage." -- Joe Elliott
"We love going on the road, We're at our best on stage." Joe Elliott
"Def Leppard were the chicken tht laid the egg that was the New Wave of Heavy Metal" Joe
"My only problem when I joined Def Leppard was that I couldn't play an instrument and I couldn't sing.. But i looked good." Joe Elliott
"What happened to Def Leppard can only happen to one band in a million." Joe Elliott
"What Three Words describe you Best?""Optimistic, happy, loud!!!!! " Joe
I'm better than anyone else whenn it comes to.."Bullshit"--- Joe
"People who knew me in high school thought i was...."" A Prick!" -- JOE
"I write lyrics that are on a street level and that everybody can understand, but they're on a different line.. I'm not afraid to hide influences I've got..' Joe
Full Name:
Joseph Thomas Elliott
Birthdate:
August 1, 1959
Birthplace:
Sheffield, England
Nickname:
Zeff
Residence:
Dublin, Ireland
Height:
6'1"
Family:
An only child, Joe is the son of Cindy and Joe Elliott Sr.
Joe has a scar above one eye from coin thrown by a fan in Spain in 1983
Marital Status:
Divorced from wife Karla (Rhamdani), whom he married on October 4, 1989 in Sheffield, England.
Joe's Wedding Annoucement and Letter
Dated Bobbie Tolsma 1992-2003
Married to Kristine as of Sept 1st, 2004.
Influences:
Led Zeppelin, Mott the Hoople, Alice Cooper, Queen, Marc Bolan.
Other Favorites:
Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Soundgarden, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Aerosmith, U2.
Wheels:
Jeep.
Recreation:
Gold, Football, Racquetball.
Equipment:
Elliott auditioned for Def Leppard (then known as Atomic Mass) singing Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." He missed the octave change in the song but the band was so impressed with his looks and enthusiasm that they took him anyway. During Def Leppard's early days Elliott worked in a bread factory where while sweeping up he would pretend to be AC/DC frontman Bon Scott. In addition to singing, Joe plays guitar, bass, piano and drums; and can be seen (with KISS style make-up) playing drums in the band's music video to the song Rocket (at about 1:48 into the video). The song was a tribute to the 1970s bands they grew up listening to. In that scene, actual drummer Rick Allen is seen along the other bandmates fronting the band, all donning makeup in a tribute to the glam bands of their youth. Unlike bandmate Rick Savage who supports Sheffield Wednesday, Elliott is an avid Sheffield United fan. Elliott has stated on many occasions that his favourite band is Mott the Hoople. His other big influences are David Bowie and T.Rex. His favorite albums are Mott, Electric Warrior, and Ziggy Stardust Has battled the mumps twice throughout his life, being stricken with them the 2nd time while recording the bands hit album, Hysteria. Is good friends with Ricky Warwick, having produced, and performing back up vocals on Ricky Warwick's Love Many Trust Few album. Rick has also returned the favor performing backup vocals on several of Def Leppard's albums.
Joe Uses A Sony Ariel Microphone.
Joe plays the
Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Keyboards
Piano
Bass
Drums
Percussion

1998 Elliott and Rick Savage opened up an American-style restaurant/bar in Sheffield called the Players CafÃ©
"We don't have an image we have to fit. We just write whatever we like. If people don't like it, tough. If they do, all well and good" --- JOE
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"Gun N' Roses is such a cool band. Axl's the perfect frontman. Slash is like Cousin it does the guy have a face? I get the same excitement watching them as I got the first time I saw the New York Dolls, and I mean that as the highest compliment." JOE
"It was a tough thing to do, sell seven million twice, back to back. It's gonna be even harder to do it again" JOE
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My Interests

"Were's the most unusual Place you had SEX?" "Back of a car,or in an airport bathroom" -- Joe Elliott

Sheffield rock legends Def Leppard have given given their support to Sheffield FC. The band was presented with a team shirt and an early club photo by chairman Richard Tims after becoming members of the club.

Def Leppard's Joe Elliott (pictured) said: "The picture is amazing, Sheffield FC should be a national treasure. It is something everyone should be proud of."Bass player Rick Savage added: "What the club is trying to achieve is great, I hope it gets the recognition it deserves. Sheffield FC is an important part of football history."

I'd like to meet:

Rocker's Best Alliases:"Albert Hall" -- Joe Elliott

"If you could be reincarnated , who or what would you want to be?" "Me" -- Joe Elliott

"What Do You Want Your Tombstone to Read?" "He Came, He Went, He Sang a Bit." Joe Elliott

"As long as we keep writing good songs, it doesn't matter how old we are... The average age of the Stones is about 38.. --But "Start Me Up" that song still gets my dick hard." Joe

CHECK THESE JOE SITES OUT THEY ARE GREAT

Music:

Mott the Hoople, David Bowie, Queen, Led Zeppelin, T-Rex and other kinds of music

Joe Elliott came up with the name DEAF LEOPARD for his imaginary band when he was still in school. When he joined the band that was called ATOMIC MASS at the time, they decided to change it into DEAF LEOPARD, and then later changed the spelling to DEF LEPPARD

Joe maintains a recording studio in his home called Joe's Garage in which he has recorded and produced many major artists. Artists have also recorded in Joe's Garage while Joe has been on the road with Def Leppard.

Joe's Band Info Off Of The Cybernauts Site In His Own Words
First involvement with music: listening to The Beatles (1964?}

Why did you start? Marc Bolan on Top Of The Pops, 1971

First type of instrument: plastic McCartney guitar Musical training: Ha! Ha!

Early influences: Marc Bolan, David Bowie, S.A.H.B., Mott The Hoople

First public performance: school play, aged 11. I was Elvis!!

First appearance on record: The Def Leppard EP, 1979

Recording bands: Def Leppard, Cybernauts

Other vinyl/CD appearances: Mick Ronson, Ronnie Wood, Ray Majors, Alice Cooper tribute CD

Equipment: I have my own studio (Joe's Garage) so too much to name! Live: AudioTechnics mic, Gibson guitar

Number of instruments owned: about 20 guitars (various electric and acoustic), piano and some percussion pieces!

Most memorable performance: San Diego 1983, Don Valley 1993 (both Def Leppard), the first Ronson tribute gig (April 30, 1994) Labatt's Apollo, London

Other musicians you admire: all the guys in Leppard and Cybernauts, Mick Ronson, Zak Clemenson, Ronnie Montrose, David Bowie
Favorite song to play with Cybernauts: Life On Mars?/Panic In Detroit

"Mick Ronson died on April 30th, 1993. Def Leppard was in Stockholm & it was not a happy day. During our set & very spontaneously, I decided to do an acoustic version of ZIGGY STARDUST. The rest of the guys were cool about it, they knew how much Ronno meant to me, but what was even cooler was the crowd reaction. You see, Mick had lived in Sweden for a while so everybody in the crowd knew him & wanted to pay their respects too. It was a strange & beautiful thing to see & hear thousands of Swedes holding up lighters & making a weird humming sound. One year on & we're into the opening bars of WIDTH OF A CIRCLE & I can hardly believe it. Little ol' me groovin' away on songs I grew up on that I never thought I'd get the chance to perform live, especially with the original "spiders" rhythm section. That was the 1st Mick Ronson memorial show.
Jump forward to 1997 & the opportunity of doing it one more time knocks on the door. Only this time we wanted to take it out a little further. Five shows were arranged so we could get our teeth into it a bit. With these songs & with Phil's ability to showcase Ronno's contribution to them, a one-off gig wasn't just gonna be enough. Five shows hardly makes a tour, but it did give us the opportunity to entend our hand in an environment that we all felt very comfortable in.
The Cybernauts album is pulled together from these shows & is in my opinion, a very worthy testament to the talents of two people who had a huge effect on me as I meandered through my youth, namely David Bowie who wrote some of the most inspirational music ever (I mean EVER!!!) & Mick Ronson who always played guitar the way I liked to hear it played."

Concert Tours
Early Tours 1978/79
On Through The Night World Tour
High 'n' Dry World Tour
Pyromania World Tour
Hysteria World Tour
Seven Day Weekend Tour
Slang Tour
Euphoria World Tour 1999-2001
X World Tour 2002/2003
Rock Of Ages Tour 2005
YEAH! Tour 2006
Def Leppard 2007 Tour

Def Leppard Albums

Side Projects
Elliott has worked with several side projects through his career. Among them, he has worked in numerous tributes to other artists like Freddie Mercury, Alice Cooper, Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter,and David Bowie, among others. He had the honour of opening the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 by joining the remaining members of Queen to perform "Tie Your Mother Down."

He also has guested on several projects like Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood's solo album Slide On This;" Lori Spree's Those Faces;" Ricky Warwick, The Almighty, and others.

He and fellow Def Leppard member/guitarist Phil Collen once had a side project together called Cybernauts. The project was short-lived, and the internet album that was online has been deleted since its mid-1990s release.

Released in September of 2003 through Sanctuary Records, Ricky Warwick's Tattoos & Alibis was produced by Elliott.

Def Leppard's Joe Elliott "Some Songs On New CD 'Don't Sound Like Anything We've Ever Done"

DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott recently spoke to Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of LiveDaily about the group's upcoming album, entitled "Songs from the Sparkle Lounge". "It's named so because we wrote much of the songs in a little room backstage on the tour," Joe said. "We set it up every day. No matter where we were, we set this stuff up. Sometimes we didn't go in, sometimes we did. If anybody had any ideas for songs, we banged them down. It just made our life a lot easier. We don't normally write well on the road, but for some reason it worked this time. [I]t's a great little scenario, what we had going. The crew would put up the gear, but we would use the gig as the secondary studio situation. They just put all these sparkley lights up everywhere â€” hence the title 'Sparkle Lounge' â€” and give a bit of atmosphere, and off we went. The songs just kept coming and coming and coming. It was really cool, I have to say. It worked really well. Musically, ['Songs from the Sparkle Lounge' is] a big mish mash of various stages of LEPPARD through the ages, I think. Some of it sounds like 'Hysteria' songs recorded during the 'High and Dry' period. There's some songs that don't sound like anything we've ever done. I think that's important. We've gone a little left field on a couple of songs. Hopefully, we'll pull in audience interest. Who knows? We may bring in new people. That's the dream of every artist that makes records. We'll have to wait and see on that one. I think we may write more songs on this tour because we've set up the Sparkle Lounge yet again."

"We've always had a plan for success.. From the very start we've known what we wanted to accomplish. Everything's progressed amazingly".. Joe Elliott

When we played with Sammy Hagar it was the first time we'd been on a stage bigger than a postage stamp. " Joe Elliott

"The band is a millionaire.. We as individuals aren't" Joe Elliott

Movies:

Monty Phyton, Any David Bowie Films, Identity, Jurassic Park 3

Television:

Law and Order,'The Shield', 'The Sopranos', 'Prison Break', 'Lost', 'Heroes'

Books:

rarely reads not enough time in schedule.. but he does go through music magazines or newspapers

Heroes:

Phil Mogg, Rob Halford, David Coverdale, Robin Zander, Bon Scott, Marc Bolan, Phil Lynott, Dennis DeYoung, Paul Stanley, Robert Plant, Freddie Mercury, Elton John, Ian Hunter,

My Blog

Songs From The Sparkle Lounge Release Date and Tim McGraw

With March 27 being the start date of the band's World Tour to support their upcoming album "SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE, LOUNGE", many of you have been wondering if the album will actually be released bef...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:53:00 PST

does this soound right

Wouldnt it be lovely if i could make this page into a website... but i thought nah cause theres already too many joe sites yahoo, google , wetpaint... it wouldnt be right plus i would need a partner i...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:51:00 PST

Messages from Joe and Malvin

Here are our last updates to this site for 2007.... A few messages we just received: "Hi Everyone!! Here's to a very happy, healthy & productive 2008, we should be ready soon to jump back on the m...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:38:00 PST

Def Leppard Secret Gig Performance Video

I found this video im sure theres more but Omg so they look good espacially Joe Yummy need I say more:} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jXAvEUTJ3g&feature=relatedho pe u all have a great new year see ...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:48:00 PST

Joe Spotted in Vegas

..> Joe Parties At The Pure ..> ..> Tidbits Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 03:19 AM Def Leppard Lead Singer Joe Elliott was spotted at the Las Vegas nightclub, PURE on Saturday. "Also getting i...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:25:00 PST

DEF LEPPARD ON CMT CROSSROADS

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/arts/television/27stei.htm l?pagewanted=2&_r=1 HERES THE URL ID LIKE TO SEE EM WITH SHANIA TWAIN...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:08:00 PST

NEW PICS

There was a bit of accident with the page but everything is back up with a bit of brand new pics i havent even seen before... alot of us have a fav pic of Joe.. if u have a fav send it my way..... and...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:30:00 PST

JOE AND PHIL ON BONEYARD XM RADIO

Joe and Phil are on xm radio for a 5 part interview....Talking about the up coming new album, music industry, the tour, and what they do on their free time....They are on the boneyard channel at 5pm a...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:39:00 PST

NEW PICS AND SCREENCAPTURES

HI EVERYBODY let u know i have been very busy on the site the last few days ... and ive now added over 30 plus folders of screencaptures of Def Leppard Videos and Interviews and Concerts.. And I will ...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:32:00 PST

DEF LEPPARD COMIC

HELLO EVERYBODY, THERE HAVE BEEN MAJOR UPDATES TO THE PAGE.. HERES A COMIC HOPE U ENJOY!! ...
Posted by Joe Elliott: Rock Of Ages Fans Page on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:46:00 PST