Saturday, 15th June 2013
Screenshot by DefDazz/Darren
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott and fellow Kings Of Chaos members took part in a press conference in Johannesburg on 12th June and the full video is available.
Joe was interviewed with all the other members apart from Slash.
Joe's questions come at 8:54, 13:30, 16:40, 22:30 (he briefly comments on Vivian's illness after being asked to pass on a radio stations best wishes to him), 33:00 mins into the video which can be seen below.
Joe Elliott - Press Conference Quote
"Thank you. Just so everybody knows Vivian's been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. We found out on day one of the rehearsals for the VIVA Hysteria! run that we did in Las Vegas. So he was carrying that weight all the way through those shows and hid it remarkably well. He asked us to keep it quiet out of respect to his family. He didn't tell his children until Sunday so that's why the press release went out on Monday. But he's had two months worth of treatment and he's responding brilliantly to it and as he says if there's a cancer to get that's the one because there's an 80 percent cure rate um percentage rate on it so he's looking great. In fact he's looking so good he's looking like Dave Kushner right now!."
- Video Source - youtube.com/SlashonlineFR
- Previous News - 13th June 2013