Chords for Def Leppard's Joe Elliott rocks the GMB studio
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Record-breaking heavy rock band hailing from the north, Sheffield specifically,
Def Leppard are one of the best-selling groups of all time and after, we're just working it out,
41 years, over four decades, they're still going strong.
And in a moment we're going to speak to frontman Joe Elliott but first,
Siobhan Ahern takes us back to where it all began.
40 years, over 100 million record sales and some of the [G] most iconic rock songs of all time.
[E] Def Leppard's rise to fame began in [G] 1977 when teenage [D] bricklayer Joe Elliott
auditioned as a guitarist [E] before being cast as the lead [C] singer.
[D] [F] Over the next four decades, he would go on to record 11 [Abm] studio albums with the rock band.
[A] [B]
[Ab] Arguably, [Eb] the band's biggest track, Pour Some Sugar On Me, has generations of fans,
including Taylor Swift, who performed with Joe back in 2008,
and she's in good company with Prom Cruise, [D] Christina Aguilera
and Miley [A] Cyrus, all having covered the iconic song.
[Eb] [E]
[Bb] Now, Def Leppard [C] are back on the road again,
kicking off their tour [F] with a very special gig last night.
[Dm] [E] And Joe's with us now on the studio, Joe Elliott, hello [A] mate.
Good morning.
You look great.
I mean, you
Considering it's, what, five hours since we've left the building, yeah.
Yeah, you played the Royal Albert Hall last night.
We did, yeah.
First time you've ever played there.
First time we, Def Leppard, have played.
We were there for the Brit Awards in 1988.
Right.
Which doesn't really count, you know, one song and an award we didn't win.
But you were there for charity last night, weren't you?
Yeah, it was, it's [Ab] year eight, it's the 18th year of the Teenage Cancer Tour,
so we did a show with The Who in October and Roger said, please come do it.
I said, can't wait.
You should look, after 41 years in the heavy rock band, you should look dissolute.
You should look sort of, you know, close to the edge, you look great.
Well, we do our best, you know, I mean, the thing is,
everybody wants you to still be 21 when you get up there,
so we do our best, but it just gets harder every year, you know.
We've been talking this morning about what's best, north or south.
Our Twitter poll is completely divided, but when you're on tour,
who are the best audiences?
That's kind of an unfair question.
I'm going to have to say Montreal and Canada, OK?
Because you go on tour in December, don't you?
Yeah.
And where you cover, I presume, the whole of the UK and Ireland.
Everywhere, we start in Ireland and in Dublin, then up to Belfast,
and then into Wales, and then all the way around.
We're playing the O2 in London on the 12th.
And do you still get a thrill out of it?
I do, actually, because, to be quite honest,
you kind of can't believe you're still doing it
after all this amount of time, and the crowds seem to be getting bigger.
And do you feel young when you do it?
You know what, I think this business can keep you young if you want it to.
If you want to be Leonard Cohen, then you're going to be old.
But I think with this, I watch Mick Jagger,
and I watch the way that even Roger Daltrey,
there's a teenager inside still.
[E] Where did heavy rock come from?
[D] I mean, I'm thinking of how you had Chuck Berry,
you had the Beatles, you had the Stones,
but when did heavy rock really enter the music scene?
Probably about 68, when Sabbath and Led Zeppelin came along.
And then there's, you know, some people will call them heavy metal,
other people call them heavy rock or hard rock,
and then it starts getting more piggy-holed.
But you're different.
I mean, I was looking at some of your tracks last night on Google,
and it's interesting, you do a lot of close [E] harmonies.
Yeah, we do.
And you don't get that with a lot of heavy rock, do you?
No, you don't.
We, basically, our mantra when we started out,
the power of a band like ACDC,
but the harmonies and the variation of a band like Queen.
We've brought in a guitar.
Uh-oh.
No, no, no, no, I just want to show how it's not done.
I don't want to give you a new show how it is done.
I mean, [A] how did it go from
The Chuck Berry thing.
[E] to
what you do?
Don't give me this thing.
Well, you'd have to crank that up to like 10.
Oh, yeah, to 11.
The [A] distortion.
[Ebm] And then [E] you've got David Bowie right there.
That's fantastic.
That is amazing.
Sorry, I only put my finger in there,
because that won't do my tinnitus.
No, me neither.
How is your hearing?
Pardon?
Seriously, how's your hearing?
It's actually not bad.
I tested, like you do.
Great to see you.
And I'm not too bad.
By the way, before we leave,
this is coming out on the 1st of June.
Brilliant.
It's the box one of four of our
It's just the CD collection, but it's also on vinyl.
It's everything.
It's very kind.
Thank you.
Lovely to see you.
Thank you very much indeed.
Def Leppard are one of the best-selling groups of all time and after, we're just working it out,
41 years, over four decades, they're still going strong.
And in a moment we're going to speak to frontman Joe Elliott but first,
Siobhan Ahern takes us back to where it all began.
40 years, over 100 million record sales and some of the [G] most iconic rock songs of all time.
[E] Def Leppard's rise to fame began in [G] 1977 when teenage [D] bricklayer Joe Elliott
auditioned as a guitarist [E] before being cast as the lead [C] singer.
[D] [F] Over the next four decades, he would go on to record 11 [Abm] studio albums with the rock band.
[A] [B]
[Ab] Arguably, [Eb] the band's biggest track, Pour Some Sugar On Me, has generations of fans,
including Taylor Swift, who performed with Joe back in 2008,
and she's in good company with Prom Cruise, [D] Christina Aguilera
and Miley [A] Cyrus, all having covered the iconic song.
[Eb] [E]
[Bb] Now, Def Leppard [C] are back on the road again,
kicking off their tour [F] with a very special gig last night.
[Dm] [E] And Joe's with us now on the studio, Joe Elliott, hello [A] mate.
Good morning.
You look great.
I mean, you
Considering it's, what, five hours since we've left the building, yeah.
Yeah, you played the Royal Albert Hall last night.
We did, yeah.
First time you've ever played there.
First time we, Def Leppard, have played.
We were there for the Brit Awards in 1988.
Right.
Which doesn't really count, you know, one song and an award we didn't win.
But you were there for charity last night, weren't you?
Yeah, it was, it's [Ab] year eight, it's the 18th year of the Teenage Cancer Tour,
so we did a show with The Who in October and Roger said, please come do it.
I said, can't wait.
You should look, after 41 years in the heavy rock band, you should look dissolute.
You should look sort of, you know, close to the edge, you look great.
Well, we do our best, you know, I mean, the thing is,
everybody wants you to still be 21 when you get up there,
so we do our best, but it just gets harder every year, you know.
We've been talking this morning about what's best, north or south.
Our Twitter poll is completely divided, but when you're on tour,
who are the best audiences?
That's kind of an unfair question.
I'm going to have to say Montreal and Canada, OK?
Because you go on tour in December, don't you?
Yeah.
And where you cover, I presume, the whole of the UK and Ireland.
Everywhere, we start in Ireland and in Dublin, then up to Belfast,
and then into Wales, and then all the way around.
We're playing the O2 in London on the 12th.
And do you still get a thrill out of it?
I do, actually, because, to be quite honest,
you kind of can't believe you're still doing it
after all this amount of time, and the crowds seem to be getting bigger.
And do you feel young when you do it?
You know what, I think this business can keep you young if you want it to.
If you want to be Leonard Cohen, then you're going to be old.
But I think with this, I watch Mick Jagger,
and I watch the way that even Roger Daltrey,
there's a teenager inside still.
[E] Where did heavy rock come from?
[D] I mean, I'm thinking of how you had Chuck Berry,
you had the Beatles, you had the Stones,
but when did heavy rock really enter the music scene?
Probably about 68, when Sabbath and Led Zeppelin came along.
And then there's, you know, some people will call them heavy metal,
other people call them heavy rock or hard rock,
and then it starts getting more piggy-holed.
But you're different.
I mean, I was looking at some of your tracks last night on Google,
and it's interesting, you do a lot of close [E] harmonies.
Yeah, we do.
And you don't get that with a lot of heavy rock, do you?
No, you don't.
We, basically, our mantra when we started out,
the power of a band like ACDC,
but the harmonies and the variation of a band like Queen.
We've brought in a guitar.
Uh-oh.
No, no, no, no, I just want to show how it's not done.
I don't want to give you a new show how it is done.
I mean, [A] how did it go from
The Chuck Berry thing.
[E] to
what you do?
Don't give me this thing.
Well, you'd have to crank that up to like 10.
Oh, yeah, to 11.
The [A] distortion.
[Ebm] And then [E] you've got David Bowie right there.
That's fantastic.
That is amazing.
Sorry, I only put my finger in there,
because that won't do my tinnitus.
No, me neither.
How is your hearing?
Pardon?
Seriously, how's your hearing?
It's actually not bad.
I tested, like you do.
Great to see you.
And I'm not too bad.
By the way, before we leave,
this is coming out on the 1st of June.
Brilliant.
It's the box one of four of our
It's just the CD collection, but it's also on vinyl.
It's everything.
It's very kind.
Thank you.
Lovely to see you.
Thank you very much indeed.
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Record-breaking heavy rock band hailing from the north, Sheffield specifically,
Def Leppard are one of the best-selling groups of all time and after, we're just working it out,
41 years, over four decades, they're still going strong.
And in a moment we're going to speak to frontman Joe Elliott but first,
Siobhan Ahern takes us back to where it all began.
_ 40 years, over 100 million record sales and some of the [G] most iconic rock songs of all time.
_ _ [E] Def Leppard's rise to fame began in [G] 1977 when teenage [D] bricklayer Joe Elliott
auditioned as a guitarist [E] before being cast as the lead [C] singer.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [F] Over the next four decades, he would go on to record 11 [Abm] studio albums with the rock band.
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ Arguably, [Eb] the band's biggest track, Pour Some Sugar On Me, has generations of fans,
including Taylor Swift, who performed with Joe back in 2008,
and she's in good company with Prom Cruise, [D] Christina Aguilera
and Miley [A] Cyrus, all having covered the iconic song.
[Eb] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ Now, Def Leppard [C] are back on the road again,
kicking off their tour [F] with a very special gig last night.
_ [Dm] _ [E] And Joe's with us now on the studio, Joe Elliott, hello [A] mate.
Good morning.
You look great.
I mean, you_
Considering it's, what, five hours since we've left the building, yeah.
Yeah, you played the Royal Albert Hall last night.
We did, yeah.
First time you've ever played there.
First time we, Def Leppard, have played.
We were there for the Brit Awards in 1988.
Right.
Which doesn't really count, you know, one song and an award we didn't win.
_ But you were there for charity last night, weren't you?
Yeah, it was, it's [Ab] year eight, it's the 18th year of the Teenage Cancer Tour,
so we did a show with The Who in October and Roger said, please come do it.
I said, can't wait.
You should look, after 41 years in the heavy rock band, you should look dissolute.
You should look sort of, you know, close to the edge, you look great.
Well, we do our best, you know, I mean, the thing is,
everybody wants you to still be 21 when you get up there,
so we do our best, but it just gets harder every year, you know.
We've been talking this morning about what's best, north or south.
Our Twitter poll is completely divided, but when you're on tour,
who are the best audiences? _ _
_ That's kind of an unfair question.
I'm going to have to say Montreal and Canada, OK?
_ Because you go on tour in December, don't you?
Yeah.
And where you cover, I presume, the whole of the UK and Ireland.
Everywhere, we start in Ireland and in Dublin, then up to Belfast,
and then into Wales, and then all the way around.
We're playing the O2 in London on the 12th.
And do you still get a thrill out of it?
I do, actually, because, _ to be quite honest,
you kind of can't believe you're still doing it
after all this amount of time, and the crowds seem to be getting bigger.
And do you feel young when you do it?
You know what, I think this business can keep you young if you want it to.
If you want to be Leonard Cohen, then you're going to be old.
But I think with this, I watch Mick Jagger,
and I watch the way that even Roger Daltrey,
_ there's a teenager inside still.
[E] Where did heavy rock come from?
[D] I mean, I'm thinking of how you had Chuck Berry,
you had the Beatles, you had the Stones,
but when did heavy rock really enter the music scene?
Probably about 68, when Sabbath and Led Zeppelin came along.
And then there's, you know, some people will call them heavy metal,
other people call them heavy rock or hard rock,
and then it starts getting more piggy-holed.
But you're different.
I mean, I was looking at some of your tracks last night on Google,
and it's interesting, you do a lot of close [E] harmonies.
Yeah, we do.
And you don't get that with a lot of heavy rock, do you?
No, you don't.
We, basically, our mantra when we started out,
the power of a band like ACDC,
but the harmonies and the variation of a band like Queen.
We've brought in a guitar.
Uh-oh.
No, no, no, no, I just want to show how it's not done.
I don't want to give you a new show how it is done.
I mean, [A] how did it go from_ _
The Chuck Berry thing.
_ [E] _ _ _to
what you do?
Don't give me this thing.
_ _ Well, you'd have to crank that up to like 10.
Oh, yeah, to 11.
The [A] distortion.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] And then [E] you've got David Bowie right there.
That's fantastic.
That is amazing.
Sorry, I only put my finger in there,
because that won't do my tinnitus.
No, me neither.
How is your hearing?
Pardon? _ _ _ _
Seriously, how's your hearing?
It's actually not bad.
I tested, like you do.
Great to see you.
And I'm not too bad.
By the way, before we leave,
_ this is coming out on the 1st of June.
Brilliant.
It's the box one of four of our_
It's just the CD collection, but it's also on vinyl.
It's everything.
It's very kind.
Thank you.
Lovely to see you.
Thank you very much indeed.
Def Leppard are one of the best-selling groups of all time and after, we're just working it out,
41 years, over four decades, they're still going strong.
And in a moment we're going to speak to frontman Joe Elliott but first,
Siobhan Ahern takes us back to where it all began.
_ 40 years, over 100 million record sales and some of the [G] most iconic rock songs of all time.
_ _ [E] Def Leppard's rise to fame began in [G] 1977 when teenage [D] bricklayer Joe Elliott
auditioned as a guitarist [E] before being cast as the lead [C] singer.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [F] Over the next four decades, he would go on to record 11 [Abm] studio albums with the rock band.
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ Arguably, [Eb] the band's biggest track, Pour Some Sugar On Me, has generations of fans,
including Taylor Swift, who performed with Joe back in 2008,
and she's in good company with Prom Cruise, [D] Christina Aguilera
and Miley [A] Cyrus, all having covered the iconic song.
[Eb] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ Now, Def Leppard [C] are back on the road again,
kicking off their tour [F] with a very special gig last night.
_ [Dm] _ [E] And Joe's with us now on the studio, Joe Elliott, hello [A] mate.
Good morning.
You look great.
I mean, you_
Considering it's, what, five hours since we've left the building, yeah.
Yeah, you played the Royal Albert Hall last night.
We did, yeah.
First time you've ever played there.
First time we, Def Leppard, have played.
We were there for the Brit Awards in 1988.
Right.
Which doesn't really count, you know, one song and an award we didn't win.
_ But you were there for charity last night, weren't you?
Yeah, it was, it's [Ab] year eight, it's the 18th year of the Teenage Cancer Tour,
so we did a show with The Who in October and Roger said, please come do it.
I said, can't wait.
You should look, after 41 years in the heavy rock band, you should look dissolute.
You should look sort of, you know, close to the edge, you look great.
Well, we do our best, you know, I mean, the thing is,
everybody wants you to still be 21 when you get up there,
so we do our best, but it just gets harder every year, you know.
We've been talking this morning about what's best, north or south.
Our Twitter poll is completely divided, but when you're on tour,
who are the best audiences? _ _
_ That's kind of an unfair question.
I'm going to have to say Montreal and Canada, OK?
_ Because you go on tour in December, don't you?
Yeah.
And where you cover, I presume, the whole of the UK and Ireland.
Everywhere, we start in Ireland and in Dublin, then up to Belfast,
and then into Wales, and then all the way around.
We're playing the O2 in London on the 12th.
And do you still get a thrill out of it?
I do, actually, because, _ to be quite honest,
you kind of can't believe you're still doing it
after all this amount of time, and the crowds seem to be getting bigger.
And do you feel young when you do it?
You know what, I think this business can keep you young if you want it to.
If you want to be Leonard Cohen, then you're going to be old.
But I think with this, I watch Mick Jagger,
and I watch the way that even Roger Daltrey,
_ there's a teenager inside still.
[E] Where did heavy rock come from?
[D] I mean, I'm thinking of how you had Chuck Berry,
you had the Beatles, you had the Stones,
but when did heavy rock really enter the music scene?
Probably about 68, when Sabbath and Led Zeppelin came along.
And then there's, you know, some people will call them heavy metal,
other people call them heavy rock or hard rock,
and then it starts getting more piggy-holed.
But you're different.
I mean, I was looking at some of your tracks last night on Google,
and it's interesting, you do a lot of close [E] harmonies.
Yeah, we do.
And you don't get that with a lot of heavy rock, do you?
No, you don't.
We, basically, our mantra when we started out,
the power of a band like ACDC,
but the harmonies and the variation of a band like Queen.
We've brought in a guitar.
Uh-oh.
No, no, no, no, I just want to show how it's not done.
I don't want to give you a new show how it is done.
I mean, [A] how did it go from_ _
The Chuck Berry thing.
_ [E] _ _ _to
what you do?
Don't give me this thing.
_ _ Well, you'd have to crank that up to like 10.
Oh, yeah, to 11.
The [A] distortion.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] And then [E] you've got David Bowie right there.
That's fantastic.
That is amazing.
Sorry, I only put my finger in there,
because that won't do my tinnitus.
No, me neither.
How is your hearing?
Pardon? _ _ _ _
Seriously, how's your hearing?
It's actually not bad.
I tested, like you do.
Great to see you.
And I'm not too bad.
By the way, before we leave,
_ this is coming out on the 1st of June.
Brilliant.
It's the box one of four of our_
It's just the CD collection, but it's also on vinyl.
It's everything.
It's very kind.
Thank you.
Lovely to see you.
Thank you very much indeed.