This guy is the 'anthology' of rock, and so down to earth..!

Would love to have a dinner party with people who love music and have Joe host the evening with all his stories on the industry and it's history. The man is a walking encyclopedia of music.

Joe is so down to earth. Just love him. Not like the other celebs.

Joe is an absolute legend. Ultimate respect.

Joe is a Rick and Roll connoisseur! Damn his recollection is amazing

Joe Elliott is literally a human music encyclopedia.

I love Def Leppard and really love Joe Elliott. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this interview. He really knows his music and his commentary on musicians and bands was very interesting to listen to. He seems very forthcoming and down to earth in this interview.

Well Joe I think your history of music has served you well ! I also think the likes of T Rex , Thin Lizzy , and so many bands of that era shape who we are and future sounds . Your recount of it all amazes me . A hero to all our past memories joe ! Thanks for that alone brilliant Interview 🇬🇧

I don’t know who the interviewer is but she’s incredible. She’s genuine with Joe and seems so knowledgeable. I would like to find more interviews with her.

The early Lep fans worship the 2 first albums, but we also respect their 40+ career and are grateful for the inspiration and joy they brought to millions of fans and music lovers. Joe rules ✊

He is right about Bob Dylan. Great writer, okay singer.

This interview is what frustrates me about music after 1995. I can't think of any musician that less than 40 years old that can have this type of in depth discussion about music of their youth and how it informs their catalog of music.

Joe is dead on right about how great Ian Hunter is.

I've always liked Joe. Very down to Earth. I only really enjoy thier first 3 albums but I congratulate his 40+ years of success.

Pyromania, Hysteria, Adrenalize. Some bands only dream of having a trilogy of records as good

Joe is book of knowledge when it comes to bands. I would love to have a sit down with him about music.

Awesome interview...it's well-known how encyclopedia Joe's musical knowledge is, combined with exceptionally great and wide-ranging tastes...been a Def Lep fan since 1982/1983 when I was 15...I never viewed the band as heavy metal, never, but hard, UK glam-influenced POWERPOP...not unlike a Sweet-influenced, English version of Cheap Trick...I enjoy all their Albums and songs, and I'M REALLY looking forward till late this week, when their new album, "Diamond Star Halos" gets released...the 3 pre-release singles are amazing...this could be one of their best albums yet...btw, I loved "Yeah!!" to death & I totally got that it proved their main influences are early 70s UK glam rock...Sweet, Slade, Mott, Bowie, etc...and many still don't get it...I could definitely have an in-depth talk with Joe...one thing I remember is when Def Lep had US club shows promoting their then-latest album, "X", they played Irving Plaza in NYC, and there was an after-party at this restaurant, I went down with some fans, tried to get in unsuccessfully, but we waited outside the place for the band to come out...I recall I did talk with Rick, Viv, Phil & I think Sav...but when Joe came out, he was either preoccupied or drunk, but I was able to get a word in & I gave him these photo doubles of Ian Hunter from this gig I attended not long before at NYC's Bowery Ballroom, thought he would appreciate them...I got a quick thanks, but nothing else...hope he enjoyed them...but yeah, Joe is quite cool & down to earth...

Joe is absolutely spot on about Dylan. No matter who plays a Dylan song, it sounds better than the original. If you think you don't like Dylans writing, try "You Ain't Going Nowhere" in the version by The Byrds. Perfection. Interesting talk :)

Joe has never been discreet about his influences - major props to him. Without Mott the Hoople, we might have never experienced Pyromania. Ian Hunter is definitely a rock icon... Thank you, and props to Joe Elliot for crediting him - it's more than well deserved. - Ian, you rule!

Another comment! I feel the same way about Leppard, that Joe does for Mott The Hoople.

I love Joe! He’s so cool

Joe Elliot a very simple person and really enjoyed the interview

This is a very informative and enjoyable interview to watch. Well done!

Worzel Gummidge waxing lyrical about the true Pantheons of Rock & Roll............. Hugely inciteful so i guess he must've screwed on his "Clever head" for this interview!!! Hahaha Thank you to ALL OF THE LEPPS ( Past, Present as well as Passed away) from the very bottom of my soul for all that you've DONE, DO & WILL DO you truly are an inspiration

Joe Elliot is phenomenal definitely knows his history with music. He’s very very intelligent and knows his music when he’s doing interviews and he’s very very down to earth. This is the kind of musicians I like I was raised to music myself, and I like his views when talking about the Bands. I really like T Rex thin Lizzy Queen and I also loved Bowie

A fan since the start

Just a joy to listen to, thanks for this one!

I can listen to Joe talk all day

I could listen to Joe all day long

This was a great interview, a real education in music. The interviewer was great too, knowledgeable and didn't talk over him. Lovely interview

We can all learn a lot from Joe.

I've been Following Def Leppard SINCE 1978!, Later, from 1986-thru the 1990s, I took Guitar Lessons ( There was no Social Media then ),--- JUST TO LEARN HOW to play their Songs, MY FAVORIES are from the 1st 5 Albums, I do not have an Account on here, when i sing and play, it's usually on Facebook, so nobody sees it here, it's just it did not get around to creating an account on here....Down the road I will., :)

I agree w/Joe... why does anyone have to explain the "why" one likes a certain band/singer or certain musical styles? To each their own, and what floats their boat may not necessarily float mine, but hey, so long as you and others are enjoying it, rock on! Growing up in the 70s was hard... I was into Queen, Kiss, big band music (bless my mom, she exposed us to all sorts of musical styles!), country... whatever got my foot jammin', I was digging it. I'm STILL doing it at 57!! I'm sooo glad Joe said he didn't care for Dylan (I find that guy & the Beatles SO overrated!!🙄)... some of their tunes are ok, but not something I'd play on the daily.🤷‍♀️ I thoroughly enjoyed this interview, Elliot seemed relaxed and he was talking like a true fan. Cool. 😎

I love this man so much ❤️❤️❤️

Damn what a great piece of entertainment please send Joe and the interviewer to schools to share the knowledge and inspiration to young kids:)

Awesome interview! Thanks Joe. And thanks to all that brought this to us.

I met him in 1983 I had no clue who he was I soon new great guy

Love you Joe!!!!❤❤❤

I love The Tubes!

Watching this bleary eyed just after waking up and I thought Janet Street Porter was interviewing Judy Finnegan

I mean Def Leppard is saying this stuff In order to cater to the pop fans that they have, not they they weren’t heavily influenced by Glam but cmon man look it how the sound. I saw Elliot with a rainbow rising shirt. And he has so much knowledge on sabbath and zeppelin and Phil Colleen said his favorite guitarist was blackmore. Of course they were influenced by the hard rock/metal guys UFO, sabbath, zeppelin, purple, cactus, budgie

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Absolutely zero things wrong with how Dylan sings and plays 'watchtower' on the album. Definitive .

the bar for the rock hall was lowered greatly when they put bon jovi in as much as jon tries to rewrite history they were a hair band i think jon in his mind thinks he on same level as bruce and dylan lol how is pat benatar not in ? foreigner? bad company? thin lizzy? billy squier? all of which should of been in long before bon jovi

UFO should have been there a 100 times over!

Joe getting bullied at school for liking "glam" music...I wonder if it was worse for that in Sheffield than in a lot of other parts of England? Maybe he still feels a little resentment towards heavy metal or classic rock from his school days. I didn't really call Hysteria or Pyromania metal...at the rock end of pop I guess. On Through the Night and High 'n Dry were obviously heavier and I do think the first album is very similar to Iron Maiden's first, both came out in the same month in 1980 I think. I thought Paul Di'anno was more punk than Bruce Dickinson and he and Joe sound not dissimilar on those albums. I think bands that got the NWBHM tag were a mix of punk and metal, apparently Mötorhead's "Ace of Spades" united the punks and the metalheads, though I think Lemmy reckoned they were too old to really be part of the NWBHM scene. But fun, catchy songs like "Hello America" from the first Leppard album distinguished them from their peers. Interestingly there was the London band Girl, of which Phil Collen was member pre-Leppard, who put their first album out just a couple of months before Leppard's and Maiden's and very similar to both, maybe somewhere in between, but calling themselves Girl and really playing up the androgyny on their album and single covers you can imagine they were into a lot of '70s glam-rock too 💃🌟

I tried listening to Mott the Hoople once ( maybe I needed to listen to more than 2 songs), but I just didn’t get it or like it at all.

No Joe Elliot I don’t wanna hear about Lott I wanna hear about sabbath. Lol

My birthday 🎂 is this Saturday I’ll be 23 years old this Saturday. My name is Justin Flack

I admire Joe Elliott, but he is being an optimist about getting classic (but unfashionable) bands such as Mott the Hoople into the RnR Hall of Shame. If great bands such as Free, Blue Oyster Cult, UFO, King Crimson and Jethro Tull can't get it, then there is no chance. I don't really want the classic rock bands in there, nor the finest folk/indie artists such as Natalie Merchant and the late Sandy Denny. Far too good for the RnR Hall of Shame. It is full of US media favourites, who have kissed the right arses and made millions of pounds for the influential cronies at certain record labels.

Mott the Hoople, T-Rex..hell Slade who had so many hits ...the hall of fame is ignorant . They only want bands that will bring viewers to the TV screen..

I’m an adult to Joe lol was never a people person

I have to respect Joe. His musical knowledge and passion is mind blowing. So.... it begs the question: Howcome Def Leppard's music is so monumentally awful?? I mean.... it really is garbage..... It just doesn't stack up.

R&RHOF is a *JOKE*