“We used to cover Problem Child in the early days. We did it two or three times in front of an audience”: we got Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott to pick his ultimate AC/DC setlist

Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and AC/DC’s Brian Johnson and Angus Young.

The first time Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott saw AC/DC live, it took him three days to get his hearing back. “It was at the Sheffield Top Rank in 1978,” he says. “On a Sunday night, they put on gigs instead of the bingo. It was just nuts.”

It got even crazier. Within a year, Leppard themselves were opening for AC/DC on the latter’s Highway To Hell tour – a baptism of fire for these Sheffield teenagers. “I’d seen them three times, then suddenly we’re supporting them,” says Elliott now. “It was an incredible experience.”