Def Leppard: How Joe Elliott came up with name during art class at Sheffield school 2 years before band formed
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Def Leppard are one of the world's biggest selling rock bands, having shifted more than 100 million records, and their high-octane live shows are legendary. It all started in Sheffield, where lead singer Joe Elliott grew up in Crookes and attended King Edward VII School, while bassist Rick Savage went to Tapton School. Elliott was still a teenager when he met guitarist Pete Willis after missing the bus one day and Willis introduced him to his band Atomic Mass, where he met Savage. Rather than...

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