Editing Joe Elliott (section)

== Controversies ==
During a performance on 7 September 1983 in Tucson, Arizona, Elliott attempted to rile the crowd during the "Rock of Ages" crowd sing-along. He told the crowd: "Last night, we played in El Paso, that place with all the greasy Mexicans, and they made a lot more noise than that." Then, on 30 September, he apologised on an El Paso radio station for the racial slur he made while referring to the city on 7 September. The band later followed up the apology with donations to Hispanic charities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://michaelhutchenceandme.wordpress.com/tag/racial-slurs |title=Racial slurs &#124; Michael Hutchence and Me |access-date=16 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110122843/http://michaelhutchenceandme.wordpress.com/tag/racial-slurs/ |archive-date=10 November 2013}}</ref>

In 2010, Elliott criticised the British music press, which he accused of ignoring his band and narrowing popular taste: {{cquote|It's nice to walk down [[Oxford Street]] without being recognised but then again when music magazines write about us they take the piss because we're not as cool as [[Johnny Marr]], who isn't as successful as us by a million miles [...] Rock's ploughed its own furrow for 30 years but still music magazines don't give rock its due [...] How many more front covers do [[Paul McCartney]] and [[Morrissey]] need? Our album will sell more than [[Morrissey]]'s so why don't we get the same kind of respect?"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://metro.co.uk/2010/07/20/joe-elliot-def-leppard-dont-get-enough-respect-453310/ |title=Joe Elliot: Def Leppard don't get enough respect |work=Metro |date=20 July 2010 |access-date=2 April 2013}}</ref>}}