Joe Elliott
If there’s one thing you should never do, it’s argue with Joe Elliott about music. And certainly not about 70s rock music.
The Def Leppard singer has just been told by the accommodating and knowledgeable owner of long-running Soho record store Sister Ray that cult glam-punk brats the Heavy Metal Kids only made one album.
“No they didn’t,” he replies, with the unshakeable authority of a champion pub quiz team leader. “They made four. Heavy Metal Kids. Anvil Chorus. Kitsch. And then they did one seventeen years ago called Hit The Right Button, with Danny Peyronel, who played keyboards on one UFO album, singing all the lead vocals.”
If he wasn’t the singer in Britain’s biggest ever hard rock band, Elliott would have been at home behind the counter in a place like this. He’s that rare thing: an A-list rock star who actually loves listening to other people’s music. He has a room in his house in Ireland filled with thousands of albums on vinyl and CD, as well as an authentic 1941 Wurlitzer jukebox.
“Every so often I’ll go through
