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DEF LEPPARD's JOE ELLIOTT On Meeting The Late DAVID BOWIE In Dublin

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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was recently interviewed and mentioned his first meeting with the late David Bowie.

Joe spoke to Loudersound recently about his first time meeting David Bowie in 1989.

As explained in other interviews after his death in January 2016 Joe met Bowie via Bono from U2.

Joe talked about David Bowie's influence and recalled the story of meeting him at Bono's house in Dublin.

Read the full interview via the link.

Joe wrote and recorded his own David Bowie tribute song 'Goodnight Mr. Jones' in 2019 for the Down 'n' Outz album 'This Is How We Roll'.

Read more about this song and how it came to be written as told by Joe during an interview with Frank Hannon of Tesla.


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Loudersound - Joe Elliott Interview Quotes

Meeting David Bowie

"It was 1989, and I got an invitation to [U2 singer] Bono’s place,” he says. “He was throwing a big barbecue and everyone who meant something in Ireland was there. {Director] John Huston, [actor] John Hurt… I get there and Bono says, ‘I want to introduce you to somebody."

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"He was playing The Point in Dublin the next night, so I did him a tape of it and gave it to him just before he went onstage. He went, “Thank you’, slipped it in his suit jacket pocket and went straight out on the stage.”


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