Life and career

Dennis Leslie Elliott played the drums with his family band at age five in shows around London. As a teenager, he joined The Tea Set with his older brother Raymond, who sang and played trumpet. After The Tea Set, he became a member of The Shevelles at age sixteen. At eighteen, he played in the band Ferris Wheel and their album of the same name. When he was 19, Dennis joined the jazz/rock band If and recorded four LPs with the ensemble. They continually toured Europe and the US where he met & later married Iona Elliott on March 2, 1972. Later that year, Dennis joined The Roy Young Band & toured the UK & Europe and recorded four singles with that band over the following year.

In 1974, Elliott toured and played on former Mott the Hoople lead singer Ian Hunter's first solo recording, Ian Hunter. After emigrating to the US in April 1975, he became a US Resident Alien.

He was the original drummer for Foreigner when the band started in 1976. He officially left in January 1993.

After leaving the music industry Elliott turned to sculpture, working primarily in the medium of wood. Self-taught, many of his works have been vessels made of burlwood, sculpted wall mirrors, wall sculptures, and orbital sculptures.

On June 2, 1990, Elliott and his wife, Iona, were rescued by the US Coast Guard after jumping from their yacht Charisma III which had caught fire. Elliott became a US citizen in 1993.

On January 9, 2013, Dennis Elliott joined Foreigner on stage at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida to play on one of the band's biggest hits, "Hot Blooded".

At The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, Florida on January 15, 2015 Foreigner were joined on stage by Elliott and former bassist Rick Wills to play "Hot Blooded".

Discography

The Shevells

• 1968: Big City Lights /The Coffee Song (single)

The Ferris Wheel

• 1970: Ferris Wheel (album)
• 1970: Can't Stop Now / I Know You Well (UK single)
• 1970: Ugly Duckling / I Know You Well (US single)

IF

• 1970: If
• 1970: If 2
• 1971: If 3
• 1972: If 4
• 1972: Waterfall
• 1995: Forgotten Roads: The Best of If
• 1997: Europe '72
• 2010: Fibonacci's Number - More Live If
• 2012: If 2 + Live in Liverpool

The Roy Young Band

• 1973: Back Up Train (single)
• 1973: Devil's Daughter (single)
• 1973: Dig A Hole (single)
• 1973: If You Could Only See Me Now (single)
• 2009: The Best Of 50 years (album)

Tony Ashton and Jon Lord

• 1974: First of the Big Bands

Ian Hunter

• 1975: Ian Hunter
• 1977: Overnight Angels

Foreigner

• 1977: Foreigner (#4 US)
• 1978: Double Vision (#3 US, #32 UK)
• 1979: Head Games (#5 US)
• 1981: 4 (#1 US, #5 UK)
• 1982: Records (#10 US, #58 UK)
• 1984: Agent Provocateur (#4 US, #1 UK)
• 1987: Inside Information (#15 US, #64 UK)
• 1991: Unusual Heat
• 1992: The Very Best Of...And Beyond (#123 US, #19 UK)
• 1993: Classic Hits Live/Best Of Live
• 1994: JukeBox Heroes: The Best Of
• 1998: I Want To Know What Love Is: Best Of Ballads
• 1999: The Platinum Collection
• 2000: Hot Blooded And Other Hits
• 2000: Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology
• 2002: Complete Greatest Hits (#80 US)
• 2002: The Definitive (#33 UK)
• 2004: Hot Blooded And Other Hits"
• 2005: The Essentials
• 2008: No End In Sight: The Very Best Of Foreigner (#132 US)
• 2009: Can't Slow Down (#29 US)
• 2014: The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977-1991

Ian Lloyd

• 1980: Third Wave Civilization

Mick Jones

• 1989: Just Wanna Hold (single) (#19 US Rock)
• 1989: Mick Jones (album)

Museum Collections

• Arkansas Art Center, Decorative Arts Museum - Little Rock, Arkansas
• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
• The Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts - Racine, Wisconsin
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
• The Contemporary Museum of Art - Honolulu, Hawaii
• Craft & Folk Art Museum - Los Angeles, California
• The Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit, Michigan
• Fuller Craft Museum - Brockton, Massachusetts
• Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, California
• The Mabel Brady Garven Collection, Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven, Connecticut
• The Mint Museum of Craft & Design - Charlotte, North Carolina
• Mobile Museum of Art, (formerly, Fine Arts Museum of the South) - Mobile, Alabama
• Museum of Arts & Design, formerly The American Craft Museum - New York, New York
• Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Massachusetts
• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
• Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
• Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Washington, D.C.
• The Slater Museum - Norwich, Connecticut
• University of Michigan Museum - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Special Collections

• Columbia Pictures, Star Trek Voyager set - Wall Sculpture - Bleached Maple Burl

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