LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-AUGUST 1, 2019…HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY TO DEF LEPPARD’S LEAD SINGER JOE ELLIOTT
HERE ARE SOME QUICK NOTES ON JOE ELLIOTT:
-THE LAST JOB HE HAD BEFORE HE HIT IT BIG WITH DEF LEPPARD WAS IN A STEEL FACTORY FOR 8 POUNDS(10 BUCKS) A WEEK
-HE PLAYS DRUMS, GUITAR, AND KEYBOARD
-HE SANG FOR A DAVID BOWIE COVER BAND CALLED “CYBERNAUTS” AND MOTT THE HOOPLE COVER BAND CALLED “DOWN ‘N’ OUTS”
-RICK SAVAGE HIRED JOE ELLIOT TO SING IN HIS BAND WITHOUT HEARING HIM SING A NOTE
-HE MADE UP THE NAME “DEAF LEOPARD” WHICH WAS LATER CHANGED TO DEF LEPPARD
-IN HIS WILL HE PICKED SONGS HE WANTS PLAYED AT HIS FUNERAL. THEY ARE ‘ANTHEM’ BY THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND, ‘ALL THE YOUNG DUDES’ AND ‘REST IN PEACE’ BOTH BY MOTT THE HOOPLE
-HE FORMED DEF LEPPARD IN 1977
-PYROMANIA SOLD OVER 12 MILLION COPIES BUT THE BAND HAD A 7 YEAR DEBT WITH THE RECORD COMPANY WHICH TOOK AWAY ALL THE MONEY FROM SALES OF THE RECORD.
-HE DIDN’T START MAKING MONEY WITH DEF LEPPARD UNTIL AFTER THE ‘HYSTERIA’ ALBUM IN 1983
-HE ONCE INVESTED IN A SPORTS BAR IN SHEFFIELD. IT WAS A MONEY PIT AND HE LOST 100,000 POUNDS ( APPROXIMATELY $125,000)
-HE HAS A NET WORTH OF $70 MILLION DOLLARS
NOTHING LIKE EARLY DEF LEPPARD
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