DEF LEPPARD's JOE ELLIOTT On What PLANET ROCK Radio Means To Him
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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott appeared on a Planet Rock Radio 25th anniversary special earlier tonight with audio available.
Joe appeared on the station as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.
Planet Rock At 25
Planet Rock Radio started in the UK on 15th November 1999.
The 'Planet Rock: 25 Years' one hour special was broadcast from 6pm to 7pm.
Hosted by Mark Jeeves and featuring the story of the station from when it started up to 2024.
Joe spoke during the last ten minutes of the show about what broadcasting on the station means to him.
He started with Planet Rock on 26th June 2010 and has now done over 700 shows.
The first six shows lasted for two hours and were titled 'Joe Elliott My ReGeneration' to celebrate the first Down 'n' Outz album.
Joe was then given his own slot as 'The Joe Elliott Show'.
Read his full quotes below and listen via the link (UK Only).
Sheffield DJ
Also on the same show was DJ Colin Slade who once worked for Radio Hallam in Sheffield when Def Leppard were starting out.
As he mentioned on the show he worked with the band and especially with Joe.
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Joe Elliott/Planet Rock - 15th November 2024 Interview Quotes
"Well it means an awful lot to me to be on Planet Rock to be quite honest."
"I wouldn't be close to 750 shows unless I thought this was something worthwhile."
"You see I'm not a DJ."
"I'm a presenter and what I like to do is present songs to an unknowing audience that are going to hear tracks that they've never heard before from bands that they've maybe heard of but never heard."
"Or I'm reminding them of a band that they once saw as an opening act 42 years ago."
Colin Slade/Planet Rock - 15th November 2024 Interview Quotes
"Hi there, I'm Colin Slade and I joined Planet Rock to do The Evening Show back in 2003."
"One of the prerequisites for any Planet Rock DJ is that you have to be properly passionate for rock music."
"You can't fake it. And Colin fitted the bill perfectly."
"I did my first rock show on the 30th of January 1971."
"That was at BBC Radio Medway."
"I got this show two hours every week and played rock music until I left the station in 1974."
"Headed up north to join Radio Hallam."
"Started a show called Hallam Rock which again ran in different time slots but right up to 1989."
"Again lots of great studio guests."
"We also did studio sessions."
"We did a lot of live music in those days."
"I worked a lot with my local band Def Leppard, my boys."
"I wonder whatever happened to them."
"Joe Elliott, I think he's on Planet Rock from time to time isn't he?."
"He used to listen to my show."
"Now I have to listen to his."
"But you know things come around."
"It was a lot of fun during that time and I say I look back with a great deal of affection on Planet Rock."
Mark Jeeves - "Colin's still on the radio down in Devon."
"Still a huge rock fan."
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