Joe Elliott Turns 60

Joe Elliott of Def Leppard just turned 60. He celebrated on stage in Calgary. It must be cool to have 60,000 people sing "Happy Birthday!" to you. Now imagine being a rockstar nearly your entire life. Also very cool. Def Leppard is one of the hardest working bands on the road these days. Good for them.

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[Bkallday]

They def work hard. Now if they could just put out an album thats listenable! Havent had one of those since Euphoria. I truly had no idea how monstrous of an influence that Steve Clark had on that band!

[Mike]

I would wager 15,000 people tops at the saddledome.

Happy birthday Joe.

[Metalboy!]

This makes me not feel so old and that Rock & Roll, as we all love and know it here, is alive and well, with “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, love it or hate it, on the tip of everyone’s tongue.

And that includes millions of millennials (and younger!) who have them on their digital playlists.

Personally, I’ll take “Photograph”, which, along with RATT’s “Round and Round”, are, in my mind, the two most iconic anthems of 80’s Hair Metal!

p.s. Humbly disagree with you, BK (as you say, it’s all just opinions) but I believe their last album, the eponymous “Def Leppard” from 2015, is actually stronger than “Euphoria”. And that’s pretty much based on just one track alone, “Dangerous”, which is vastly superior to anything off “Euphoria”, and their best song since as far back as “Let’s Get Rocked”, from 1992’s “Adrenalize”. RIP, Steve Clarke, who Def Leppard might as well as named their record label, “Bludgeon Riffola”, after.

[Metalboy!]

“... might as well have ...” Grammar isn’t one of my strong suits, as evident in the dangling participles and run-ons in nearly all of my posts including this one ...

“Bludgeon Riffola” ... I wonder who came up with that? Now there’s a great interview question to ask Elliott!