Joe Elliott
Born | August 1, 1959 |
Hometown | Sheffield, England |
Net worth | $70 million |
Height | 6'2" (1.87m) |
Spouse | Karla Rhamdani (m 1989 - 1997) , Kristine E. Wunschel (m 2004 - present) |
Children | Finlay Elliott |
Parents | Joe Elliott Sr |
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Louder, faster, funnier: how the New Wave of British Heavy Metal saved rock
In the spring of 1983, Venom arrived in the United States with enough explosives to start a war. According to the music promoter Jonny Zazula, the Geordie trio had “a bomb board” of a kind “used by the IRA”. They “had dynamite”, too. During an appearance at the Paramount Theatre, on Staten Island, one of the band’s homemade pyrotechnics “blew up like a satellite, like a flying saucer”. Such was the velocity of the night’s first explosion that “the whole front row of the audience went blackface”.
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The Struts – Strange Days review: A metal-by-numbers homage to big-hair rock
A glam metal album? In 2020? You could be forgiven for thinking you’d woken up in the mid-Eighties listening to The Struts’s latest, a metal-by-numbers homage to big-hair rock.Full-on guitar/drum assault? Check — Wild Child. Motorbike revving? Check — All Dressed Up (With Nowhere To Go). KISS cover? Check — Do You Love Me?
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Rock Hall of Fame: Stevie Nicks, Janet Jackson and The Cure lead 2019 class of inductees
Stevie Nicks, Janet Jackson and The Cure lead this year’s class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, which includes seven acts in total. Radiohead, Def Leppard, Roxy Music and The Zombies are also among the seven singers and bands getting recognised this year for having contributed “over 25 years of musical excellence”. Nicks, who was previously inducted into the hall of fame along with the rest of Fleetwood Mac, became the first woman to receive the distinction twice.
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British artists dominate 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
The 2019 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, with British acts making up five of the seven artists. Artists can be inducted into the Hall of Fame 25 years on from the release of their first record, and are voted in by a panel of over 1,000 music industry figures along with results from a fan ballot. Radiohead are the most recent act to be inducted – the British alt-rockers became eligible last year, 25 years after the release of their debut single Creep, but didn’t
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Rock of Ages - Life lessons with Def Leppard's Joe Elliott
For our latest edition of "Life Lessons," Elliott retraces his journey from an industrial English town to global superstardom. A: I grew up in Sheffield, and at the age of 4, I had a plastic Paul McCartney guitar and a little stool, which I would stand on and sing 'Love Me Do.' Then my mom bought an actual acoustic guitar through a mail-order club when I was 8. Everybody in the band had a day job, like Rick Savage, who worked for British Rail.
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Def Leppard set for Las Vegas residency
Rockers Def Leppard are planning to pour some sugar on Las Vegas next year after announcing a three-week residency.
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