On Friday, 29 March, Queen guitarist Brian May will introduce Def Leppard at the 34th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center where they will join the ranks of so many of their idols. “And he walks me up into this room where the snooker table is, and Bowie sat on the snooker table, and Bono says, ‘I thought you might just want five minutes.’” “He says, ‘Come with me, I want to introduce you to somebody,’” Elliott recounted. Appearing on the band’s 1987 album, Hysteria, Pour Some Sugar On Me was a massive hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and helped bring the album to the top of the charts in the USA. The singer told Howard Stern his first run-in with the rock icon actually occurred at Bono’s house in 1990 after the U2 singer invited him to a barbecue at his home in Ireland. Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me is one of the most iconic songs to come from the 80s hair metal craze. They-along with Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, and the surviving members of Queen-delivered an epic rendition of ‘All the Young Dudes’.Įlliott and Bowie’s relationship, however, actually stretches back a few years further. And it was mind-blowing – it was an absolute, you know, sensory overload on your eyes,” he continued.Įlliott eventually performed alongside Bowie during a 1992 tribute to recently departed Queen singer Freddie Mercury. Rex in color with all this glittery stuff. “So, we saw Gerry and the Pacemakers or Herman’s Hermits and Tom Jones in black-and-white, and then we saw Bowie and Slade and T. “We were lucky we grew up in an era … we saw black-and-white turn into color,” Joe Elliott told Stern. Rex fame, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, and even punk acts like the Clash, but few entertainers shaped their development quite so much as David Bowie. Def Leppard listed quite a few musical inspirations during their conversation with Howard, like Queen, Marc Bolan of T.
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