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DEF LEPPARD's JOE ELLIOTT In QUEEN THE GREATEST Freddie Mercury Tribute Show Episode

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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott is featured in the new Queen The Greatest YouTube feature and a transcript and video are available.

Episode 40 of Queen's 'Queen The Greatest' YouTube video series has been released.

The clips highlight major moments in the band's 50 year career having formed in 1971.

The special feature looks back at The Freddie Mercury Tribute show from April 1992.

Footage of the event was is included along with modern and archive interviews with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Joe.

Joe recently appeared in the BBC Freddie Mercury : The Final Act documentary where he also talked about The Freddie Mercury Tribute show.

Joe's interview was once again filmed at his Joe's Garage studio in Dublin.

Read his full transcript below of Joe's part and view the full video.

And if you look closely at 5:32 mins in you can see Joe kiss Rick as the last song ends.


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Queen The Greatest - Joe Elliott/Brian May Interview Quotes - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)

Joe Elliott - "I was the first person to sing with Queen after Fred died. Doing it on stage in front of 80,000 people and a billion people on TV. Holy shit!."

Joe Elliott - "You'd never think it would be possible to get one person to stand in Fred's shoes because there's no way I could have done anything other than, say, the rock stuff. With the Freddie Mercury Tribute Show, you needed 20 characters to even come close to pulling on his coattails."

Brian May - "It's done. And Joe Elliott was next to me as we walked off and he just grabbed my arm and he said, ‘Brian, look at that’."

Joe Elliott - "I said, ‘You need to stand here and look at this because you will never, ever see this again. If this is the end, what a way to go’."

Brian May - "And for the first time, I looked out and I thought, ‘Ah, how amazing’ this amount of love got poured out to our friend."


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