Def Leppard News - Joe Elliott/Ian Hunter Speakeasy Interview To Be Streamed Online

Sunday, 8th January 2017

Joe Elliott/Ian Hunter Speakeasy Interview To Be Streamed Online

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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott interviewed Ian Hunter in July 2016 and the Speakeasy TV special will be available online this week.

The Season 2 episode of PBS television show Speakeasy began airing on PBS TV in the USA from 13th November 2016.

The full episode will now be streamed online from 11th to 20th January on the show's website - speak-easy.tv

They currently have four full episodes from this series on their site all of which are 50 minute plus YouTube embeds.

View the previews and a photo gallery below which were first posted in November along with Joe's quotes about the event.

The special event was taped before a live audience on 12th July at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in New York..

Joe talked about the experience of interviewing his idol on his radio show shortly after the event.

Two preview videos for the series can be viewed below and via the playlist link.

The first features a one minute clip with Joe asking questions about Ian's time before Mott The Hoople and his first TV performance.

The series preview features a 20 second clip from the same footage.

View some photos below.

All previous shows have not been posted online in full. Five minute versions of interviews from Season One have been made available.

Joe Elliott/Ian Hunter - Photos

The Joe Elliott Show - 16th July 2016 Quotes

Ian Hunter/TV Interview

"Now we've been based in New York for the last few days before we got here. And it was a crazy time as you can imagine New York always is."

"But one of the things that I did was interview Ian Hunter for a TV special that's coming out in October. So I had to play the role of Graham Norton, Walter Kronkite, David Frost, it was kind of bizarre. But it was fun to do and I have been given permission to play this song. I think it's actually already available. From a box set that's coming out in September called Stranded In Reality. This is an out-take from the 2001 album Rant. And it is fantastic. This is called A Little Rock 'N' Roll."

Free/Ian Hunter

"During said interview with Ian Hunter. He mentioned that that is his favourite ever Free song and you could kind of see why. It has a very similar groove to stuff like Ready For Love. Which Mott did on the Dudes album which was re-recorded by Bad Company on their first album. Mick Ralphs obviously a big fan of Paul Kossoff. But that is Free there from an album called Free At Last. The song Catch A Train."

"And before that Ian Hunter with an out-take from the 2001 Rant album and it is strange when sometimes you've got these songs and you don't think that they warrant to be on the album. But then you hear them 15 years later and go wow that's actually quite good. It's from a box set that is 32 discs. It's 30 CDs, two DVDs. Ian Hunter's entire solo career called Stranded In Reality out in September."

Stream Season 2, Episode 5 of Speakeasy for FREE Jan 11-20! This episode features famed singer & songwriter, Ian Hunter of #MottTheHoople and with long-time friend @joeelliott_daily, singer & frontman of the legendary rock band @defleppardofficial . The two chat about the power of music, the resurgence of vinyl/box sets, and their respective relationships with @davidbowie . Mark your calendars! You won't want to miss this FREE streaming episode from Jan 11-20, right on our website: speakeasytalks.com #music #livetalk #ianhunter #joeelliott #legends #chat #interview #video #mustsee #watch #tv #classic #interview #mottthehoople #defleppard #thegreats #rockandroll #alltimegreats #conversation #musicians #musicalinspiration #musical #friendship #classic #davidbowie #vinylrecords #boxsets

A photo posted by Speakeasy (@speakeasy_tv) on Jan 5, 2017 at 4:19pm PST