We got about 30 quid a week, which wasn’t even enough to buy stage clothes.
We had signed a record deal in ‘79, but that all that money went into running the band. I wrote most of the lyrics for the first album down there.Ī: Money was tight until about 1983. Eventually I got fired for playing cricket in the basement. Everybody in the band had a day job, like Rick Savage, who worked for British Rail. That money helped, because by 1977 we had started the band, and we needed to pay for things like microphones and rehearsal time. When I left school, I had a factory job for over four years in a steelworks. It paid me enough to buy a few singles a week, or maybe three albums a month. She was my heroine.Ī: Actually I had four paper routes – two before school, and two after. Still helming Def Leppard is lead singer Joe Elliott, 58, even as the band has lost members to accidents and life changes.įor our latest edition of “Life Lessons,” Elliott retraces his journey from an industrial English town to global superstardom.Ī: 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. That is because British heavy metal band Def Leppard has been making news with a deal to stream all of its hits on digital platforms, and an arena tour with American band Journey. Looking at the latest music headlines, it could be 1984 all over again.
tour with STYX and TESLA will kick off June 23 in Tampa, Florida.FILE PHOTO: Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott sits on stage during an announcement that Kiss and Def Leppard will team up this summer for a 42-city North American tour, at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California March 17, 2014. It used to be six days a week doing the wrong thing and one day doing the right now it's the other way around."Įlliott recently said that DEF LEPPARD is being courted by a number of record labels wanting to release the band's new album, and the group is currently looking at those offers.ĭEF LEPPARD will return to the road April 15 for a Canadian tour, followed by Europe in May and June. He adds: "I spend a lot of time balancing it in a good way, and I think once a month to balance it the other way is also good for you - to remind you of your youth. Well, you've got to be able to fall off the wagon now and again." Over the years, however, Elliott has done away with some of his not-so-healthy vices and habits He says: "When I drink too much 'grape juice,' I always want a big, meaty hamburger. When you're on the road touring with a band, especially in the early years, nutrition is not usually high on the list of concerns. I get on my crosstrainer and put a DVD on - watch, like, AC/DC live in France or something, and I just walk and run until the DVD is finished. I take either the Saturday or Sunday off, depending on how much soccer's on TV. Miss Box Of Junk), DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott spoke about his fitness and nutrition at home and on the road. During a recent interview with VH1 Classic "That Metal Show"'s Jennifer (a.k.a.
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