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Joe Elliott performing in Salt Lake City

Photos by Isaac Hale

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Joe Elliott gifs for your pleasure...

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What Happens Backstage Doesn’t Always Stay Backstage

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Happy Valentine's Day from Joe Elliott

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Joe Elliott by Sean Derrick

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"My boy plays drums in triplets. He sounds like Dr. Feelgood. My daughter who was 18 months old yesterday, she's a bit of a screamer. So I could see her following in the footsteps of like Mollie Marriott or something like that you know. He likes the drums, but he occasionally gets on the piano and bangs out a tune now and again. I don't know whether they really have the need or the want to do what I do. I mean I wouldn't advise them against it, because hey, I enjoy it." -Joe Elliott

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Joe Elliott and Rick Savage, interviewed recently by Carrie Grant (pictured above) for BBC'S The One Show.

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"If I'm making a cup of tea for somebody--if it's Joe [Elliott] and he's got a sore throat, I put my hand around the cup and say a little prayer. The worst thing that can happen is it works."

Rick Allen

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"This image - me in the Union Jack T-shirt - is iconic. And it happened by accident. We were about to shoot the video to 'Photograph' back in 1983. I was down the King's Road in London with a budget of about twenty-five quid to kit myself out. The plastic trousers were awesome, but I've got really long legs and the trousers were a little short on me, so that's where the legwarmers came in. Everybody was wearing them - David Lee Roth, people put of 'Fame'. They weren't as ridiculous as they are now. I think the trousers were £12.99. The belt was a fiver. So I had about seven quid left in my pocket and the Union Jack shirt was in the window of one of these New Wave shops for £6.99. So that was it. 'Photograph' was one of the best videos we ever did. It really made us in America. So that was twenty-five quid well spent!" -Joe Elliott, Rock Candy Magazine

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"I don't really do advice, cause I think you follow your heart. I think that's the best bit of advice I could really give."

Joe Elliott

(📷 by Vanessa Hunsaker)

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"Life is a strange thing, when you’re your age, you don’t think about it, but when you’re my age you realize that the longer you go on in life, there are only two certain things: you’re born, and that’s one of them. The other is dying. You try to keep those two things as far apart as possible. That’s what we all try to do, I guess."

Joe Elliott

(📷 by Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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"When I was about 4 or 5, I'm told through second hand memories at least, that I used to stand on a little table with a plastic Paul McCartney guitar singing Love Me Do, and I could get all the way through the song, I knew every word. Now I don't actually remember this, but my relatives do, and consequently I was destined for better and greater things. [Laughs] It was a start of a lifelong relationship with music I think."

Joe Elliott

(Via Rock Icons, Joe Elliott)

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"Bog-standard, 12-bar, 3-chord thing that's a tag off more to the late Sixties than the breakthrough Seventies stuff that was gonna be like the glam of Slade, Bowie and T. Rex, but it's just got a lot of great muscle and melody and that's something that I've always been attracted to."

Joe Elliott on 'Hi Hi Hi'

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The Further Live Adventures Of…

“[While there are] tribute bands with their jokey names, and their photocopies of wonderful songs, Down N Outz aren’t that at all. Firstly, they are brilliant musicians. Second, the songs they pick are a little different from the norm … When some of the finest rock musicians there is play for fun, and thanks (mainly) to Ian Hunter the songs are as good as these, then the results need to be as ebullient as this. They’re Not The Hoople (if you will) but these Down N Outz are on top of the world.” -Maximum Volume Music

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Salt Lake City, 16 September, 2016 | Photos by Doug Fox Daily Herald "If a Def Leppard show is indeed something of a circus, as the lyrics to "Let's Go" would suggest, then Elliott is indeed the ringmaster of record. Dude knows how to work a crowd in ways that are both obvious and subtle. His between-song banter and storytelling registers on the Goldilocks scale -- not too little or too much, but just right. Especially enjoyable was his long-term memory about getting together with a 16-year-old friend to listen to records, and the pair being mutually inspired by bands like Queen and AC/DC. "We said, 'What do you think if we just put a band together?' Thirty-nine years later, that 16-year-old is still my best friend," Elliott said while introducing Savage. Elliott may have lost some vocal power and range over the ensuing years, but his rock spirit and enthusiasm are still willing."

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Joe Elliott by Ross Halfin (None More Black)

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Vivian Campbell by Ross Halfin (None More Black)