{"id":2443467,"date":"2019-04-26T07:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=827407"},"modified":"2019-04-26T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:57:49","slug":"the-first-time-joe-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-first-time-joe-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Joe Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Def Leppard<\/a>\u2019s Joe Elliott was sick of drawing fruit, flowers and vases in art class when he asked his teacher if he could draw posters for rock shows instead. He got the ok and began creating posters for his favorite groups \u2014 the Beatles, the Stones and Thin Lizzy \u2014 but soon started making up new band names as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cDef Leppard was one of them,\u201d he recalls in the latest installment of Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s \u201cThe First Time.\u201d \u201cIt just sounded good \u2014 it was spelled correctly when I did it. It was only changed to the misspelling that we use these days after the band formed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the video, Elliott also remembers miming Elvis Presley\u2019s \u201cWonder of You\u201d in a school play, the origins of \u201cPour Some Sugar On Me\u201d and how Mariah Carey came to cover <\/span>\u201cBringin\u2019 On the Heartbreak.\u201d He also recalls jumping on stage to urge John Peel to play a song off Def Leppard\u2019s debut EP while the legendary BBC host was in the middle of a live DJ session. Peel demurred at the time because he hadn\u2019t actually heard the record, but a few days later Elliott got a call from Peel who said he was going to give \u201cRide Into the Sun\u201d its radio debut.<\/p>\n

Throughout the video, Elliott also discusses his life-long love of David Bowie and the happenstance connections to the musician that kept popping up throughout Def Leppard\u2019s career. The band recorded their debut EP at a studio in Hull, England that had been frequented by Mick Ronson, one of Elliott\u2019s guitar heroes and a member of Bowie\u2019s Spiders From Mars. Years later, Def Leppard\u2019s first show in the U.S. was at the Santa Monica Civic Center \u2014 a legendary space in Elliott\u2019s mind thanks to a well-worn live Bowie bootleg recorded at the same venue. Finally, Elliott got the chance to meet Bowie at, of all places, Bono\u2019s house in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n

\u201cBono said to me, \u2018Come with me, I want to introduce you to someone,’\u201d Elliott said. \u201cHe took me upstairs to his snooker room and there was Bowie sat on the snooker table. Thanks for the warning, Bono.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Def Leppard\u2019s Joe Elliott was sick of drawing fruit, flowers and vases in art class when he asked his teacher if he could draw posters for rock shows instead. He got the ok and began creating posters for his favorite groups \u2014 the Beatles, the Stones and Thin Lizzy \u2014 but soon started making up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 02:40:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}