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. In 2008, Def Leppard performed live on stage at a Detroit Red Wings ice hockey game. Midway through the set, Red Wing forward Darren McCarty drove a motorcycle across the stage with the Stanley Cup on the back. Another Detroit player, Kyle Quincey, handed the cup to Elliott, who unintentionally placed the Cup upside-down on its stand. Upon realizing his error, Elliott quipped to the crowd, "Oh it's upside down. Well never mind. We're soccer boys, what do we know?" The incident angered many ice hockey fans. Elliott later said, "[E]very other sporting cup I've ever seen, was wider at the top than the base [...] Like most of my fellow Brits, I'd never seen it before until it was handed to me sideways by which time I had a 50/50 chance of getting it right." Coincidentally, Elliott had previously co-owned a Sheffield sports bar with Tim Cranston, a Canadian ice hockey player for the local Steelers. In 2010, Elliott criticised the British music press, which he accused of ignoring his band and narrowing popular taste: Before a July 2019 show in Hamilton, Ontario, Elliott was recorded on video saying that the city's FirstOntario Centre "stinks like 10,000 asses". The video surfaced in January 2020. Discography With Def Leppard The Def Leppard E.P. (1979) On Through the Night (1980) High 'n' Dry (1981) Pyromania (1983) Hysteria (1987) Adrenalize (1992) Live: In the Clubs, in Your Face (1993) Retro Active (1993) Slang (1996) Euphoria (1999) X (2002) Yeah! (2006) Songs from the Sparkle Lounge (2008) Mirrorball: Live And More (2011) Viva! Hysteria (2013) Def Leppard (2015) The Story So Far – The Best Of (2018) Diamond Star Halos (2022) With Down 'n' Outz My ReGeneration (2010) The Further Adventures Of... (2014) The Further Live Adventures Of... (2017) This Is How We Roll (2019) With Kings of Chaos Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head – "Never Before" (2012) With Cybernauts Cybernauts Live References External links Joe Elliott at DefLeppard.com Joe Elliott on Planet Rock 1959 births Def