![]() This was what, 1986, so who knows who was there. The pub was absolutely packed, and nobody in that pub knew who she was - but they all knew that Mick was playing piano, so they all came to see Mick. My 26th birthday, he helped me blow the candles out on my cake 'cause we went to dinner. Over the years, I'd see him occasionally. On spending a memorable birthday with Mick Ronson: Now he's Mick Ronson, the Yorkshireman, just like me. Somebody just said, "This is Joe from Def Leppard." He just turned around and said, "Hey, old mate," in this total Yorkshire accent, same as me. And the first thing I see is Mick Ronson with his foot up on a stool, tying his shoelaces, with his back to me. Next thing I know, I'm being whisked upstairs to the dressing room before they go on. ![]() I'm like, "You've got be f**king kidding me - no, I did not." "You want to go?" So, boom - rapidly they get us passes. One of the girls at our record company just happened to mention, "You know, Ian and Mick are playing the Ritz tonight." My jaw dropped to the floor. We happened to have a day off on the On Through the Night tour in New York. They were continuously touring, pretty much the "Schizophrenic" stuff. It would've been the Welcome to the Club tour, I suppose - Ian was still kind of promoting " Schizophrenic," which had come out the year before, and I think he'd maybe recorded the live album by then. ![]() The first time I ever met Mick was at the Ritz in New York. This interview has been edited and condensed. In addition to the memories of Mick Ronson he shared in connection with the recent documentary " Beside Bowie," Elliott regaled Salon with more stories about meeting and recording with the late guitarist/arranger, and how and where Ronson's influence endures today. We've got our foot in many different styles of music like metal, hard rock, pop, whatever you want." "If you listen to a billion things, pour them all into a bucket, stir it down, you get your own special recipes, and that's all we've always tried to be. ![]() "We want to be able to say, 'Yeah, okay, so we can play a Stones song, we can play a Leppard song, we can play a Bowie song,' and they all kind of work, because we have broad strokes in our palette," he says. "We don't want to be pigeonholed," Elliott says. In hindsight, it's easy to see why: The band's sound - a heady mix of glam, power-pop, metal and hard rock - is impossible to pigeonhole, and reflects the group's deep music fandom. rockers currently on an arena tour with Journey, but their catalog finally arrived on streaming services in recent months - good timing, since last year brought a well-regarded, lavish reissue of their 1987 opus "Hysteria."ĭuring a conversation with Salon, frontman Joe Elliott shares that he's noticed Def Leppard resonating with both long-time fans and younger generations alike. Def Leppard is having a well-deserved moment in 2018. ![]()
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