Joe elliott

Joseph Thomas Elliott born 1 August is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. Elliott is known for his distinctive and wide ranging raspy singing voice. Elliott met Pete Willis a member of a local band called Atomic Mass in November after missing a bus. Upon finding out that they were both musicians, Willis invited Elliott to meet the rest of the Atomic Mass members.

The band spent hours talking and listening to records in Elliott's bedroom. Elliott tried out as a guitarist and, though the band had not heard Elliott sing, they were impressed by "his attitude and his ideas about being in a band" and he became the band's vocalist instead. The other members also took Elliott's suggestion to change their name to "Deaf Leopard.

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Bandmate Tony Kenning suggested they change the band name to " Def Leppard " to distinguish them from contemporary punk bands like The Flying Lizards and the Boomtown Rats. The band claims that any apparent similarity of the name Led Zeppelin to Def Leppard was unintentional. Elliott's first marriage was to Karla Ramdhani in ; they divorced in Elliott met Kristine Wunschel in while she was working on the crew for the X album tour, and they were married on 1 September Their first child was born in , and they are also parents to a daughter born in During a performance on 7 September in Tucson, Arizona, Elliott attempted to rile the crowd during the "Rock of Ages" crowd sing-along.

He told the crowd: "Last night, we played in El Paso, that place with all the greasy Mexicans, and they made a lot more noise than that. The band later followed up the apology with donations to Hispanic charities. Elliott previously co-owned a Sheffield sports bar with Tim Cranston , a Canadian ice hockey player for the local Steelers.