Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott answers questions from The Warning, Bullet For My Valentine, Chris Daughtry, Wolfgang Van Halen and Those Damn Crows. We find out about his pre-show vocal warm ups, meeting David Bowie and the secret to longevity as a band.
Month: October 2024
JOE ELLIOTT’S SONGS FROM THE VAULT – SIRIUS XM (OCTOBER 2024 EDITION)
GREETINGS MUSIC LOVERS – AND WELCOME BACK TO JOE ELLIOTT’S SONGS FROM THE VAULT SHOW ON SIRIUSXM’S DEEP TRACKS CHANNEL.
In the OCTOBER 2024 hour’s show, Joe highlights and tells stories about some of his favourite songs and artists from his own personal collection.
October’s Show features music and stories from Supertramp, Television, 10cc and more!
WHO: Def Leppard frontman, musician, and musicologist Joe Elliott
WHAT: Joe Elliott’s Songs from the Vault
WHERE: SiriusXM’s DeepTracks (Ch. 27)
WHEN: Show Schedule HERE
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In his youth, Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott was creatively influenced by the music of the late 60’s and early 70’s. From legendary acts like T. Rex, Mott The Hoople, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and so many others. Each month, listen to Elliott play “Deep Tracks” from his personal music collection. Expect to hear songs from Joe’s vault and some of the stories behind them.
‘One Night Only Live At The Leadmill’ is out today
This 60-minute set promises to take you back to the band’s club days, as they fill the iconic The Leadmill with under 900 die-hard fans – in what is the band’s most intimate show in the last 35 years.
From fan-favourites ‘Wasted’ and ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’ to the more recent ‘Fire It Up’, Def Leppard perform an extraordinary stadium style set in the most intimate way, including hits and rarities spanning their entire catalogue.
Def Leppard’s Phil Collen on ‘Hysteria’ Graphic Novel, ‘Dangerous’ Guitars, and His ‘Darkside’
When Phil Collen was growing up in London in the 1960s, comic books weren’t as popular as they were in the U.S. But the Def Leppard guitarist was a fan anyway. “Some of the news agents would sell these American comics, and I used to just load up on them,” the 66-year-old tells Rolling Stone via phone from his California home. “I’ve actually got The Silver Surfer No. 1. I’ve still got The Incredible Hulk No. 3 and early Batman stuff, all from the Sixties.”
Although he’s admittedly not an ardent comics fan now and hasn’t followed any recent titles, Collen latched onto the art form recently when Vault Comics asked him if he’d like to make a title of his own. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz had created a graphic novel for them, which Collen enjoyed, but he had other ideas of how it could be done. The guitarist explained that he been writing his own “really dark short stories” lately. “Before you knew it, I’m talking to the writer [Eliot Rahal], and I’d come up with a plot and a plan, and we just kind of expanded on that,” he says.
Now Vault is releasing Hysteria: The Graphic Novel, a book that shares its title with Def Leppard’s magnum opus but little else. Instead, it tells the story of indie rocker, Foz, who fronts a band called Darkside. When she inherits her late father’s estate, she rediscovers a guitar he owned when she was little. Eventually, the instrument begins speaking to her with promises of fame and fortune and she learns the instrument’s true history, part of which is revealed in the graphic novel’s first pages above, premiering here, and hysteria ensues.
“Writing this just seemed like a very natural, normal thing to do,” Collen says. “Even the process was really … I won’t say easy, but it’s fun.”
Now Collen is writing music for a real-life Darkside project to record and says he’s just starting to understand the full power of graphic storytelling.
Read the full interview and preview the Graphic Novel at RollingStone.com