Joe Elliott

'Joe Elliott' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Elliott, Joe Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Art Officially Favored

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Def Leppard Viva! Hysteria Concert

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hello Quo

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jobriath A.D.

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Down 'N' Outz: Live at the Hammersmith Odeon

  2011, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Down 'N' Outz: Live at the Hammersmith Odeon

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 9th Meteor Ireland Music Awards

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Def Leppard: Rock of Ages

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Def Leppard: Best of the Videos

  2004, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Classic Albums: Def Leppard - Hysteria

  2002, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Classic Albums: Def Leppard - Hysteria

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Greatest Number One Singles

  2001, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Def Leppard: RockWalk Induction

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen MTV Video Music Awards 1992

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ozzy Osbourne: Don't Blame Me

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brit Awards 1989

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Historia

  1988, role: actor , character name: Lead singer

Elliott, Joe Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Red Fury

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Red Fury

  1984, role: writer

Elliott, Joe Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Route

  2014, role: actor , character name: Peter Crabtree
• Play in Full Screen Project: Valkyrie

  2002, role: actor , character name: G-Man #1

Famous quotes by Joe Elliott:

"It's a great honour to have the dean of Coventry Cathedral conducting the service. It will be a very moving occasion."

"Our only rule was that everything had to come from before we signed our first record deal. The Blondie song ('Hanging on the Telephone') is the most modern one on there. Most of it ended up being from between 1970 and 1973."

"A lot of these bands were huge in Britain but never really made it big in the States,"

"We wanted to show people, absolutely and as a matter of fact, where we came from. We wanted to put to bed the idea that we were weaned on Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Those were the bands our older brothers listened to. Our true love was always the three-minute pop song."

"Same thing with 'Long Long Way to Go' . We like to think we can tell a good song from a so-so song whether it be rock, pop, blues, rap, whatever... Again, for no reason other than curiosity, it was sent to us and we really dug it, so we recorded it. Apparently so did Lionel Ritchie ! Let's not forget here that we DID write the other eleven songs on 'X' !"

"Well, it wasn't a conscious decision to do that, it just worked out that Phil [Collen , guitar] was hanging out in Los Angeles with [Swedish producer/songwriter] Andreas Carlsson , you know, just coffee, bite to eat, shootin' the shit, that sorta thing, when Andreas said, 'We should write a song together.' Something we all say from time to time but very rarely do. Anyway, it didn't happen, but Andreas did call us about six months later and told us he had a song, 'Unbelievable' , that he thought sounded like us! So, long story short, he sent a copy over, we played it, liked it, recorded it!"

"Viv [guitarist Vivian Campbell ] doesn't like it all that much these days. After all, it was his first with us and he wanted the LEPP thing a bit more. Happily for him, it's back, so you move on. I have some great memories of the recording and writing sessions. For the rest of us, it was very liberating, but like all our albums, some of it works and some of it doesn't. Trust me, there's stuff on 'Hysteria' I'd do over … I love the title track, 'Pearl of Euphoria' is nearly brilliant and 'All I Want Is Everything' was the first song I think I really felt good to have written. It all fell into place at the right time."

"Yep, big rich twatty rock stars! Compared to some rappers who've been 'on the scene' 15 minutes, we're minnows… but I won't be back in the factory any time soon! As for the music, it's ALWAYS been the focal point. We were never into it for the money. We wouldn't have spent three years recording a very expensive record, 'Hysteria' , if we were! When I saw Marc Bolan and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' I didn't shout, 'Wow! I want to be him for the money.' It was for the glory of it and a way out of dreary old day job land. That wasn't for me, the music gave me a motivation."

"Let's get some hands in the air,"

"Canada is our biggest market,"

"I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing."

"Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it."

"The Vatican takes your breath away."

"I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing."

"That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years."

"With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is."

"To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views."

"When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy."

"Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week."

"There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along."

Joe Elliott