The JOE ELLIOTT Show 10th January 2026 Playlist/Transcript

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The Joe Elliott Show

Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 10th January on Planet Rock.

This week's show included songs by David Bowie, The Cybernauts and Def Leppard.

The full playlist is shown below and a full transcript.

The show is available using the On Demand feature. It is also repeated on Tuesdays at 9pm and Thursdays at 4am.

The Joe Elliott Show - 10th January 2026 Playlist

01 - David Bowie - Star
02 - David Bowie - Watch That Man
03 - David Bowie - Oh You Pretty Things
04 - The Cybernauts - Panic In Detroit
05 - Def Leppard - Drive-In Saturday
06 - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (1999 Version)
07 - Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love
08 - David Bowie - See Emily Play
09 - David Bowie/David Gilmour - Arnold Layne (Live)
10 - David Bowie - Velvet Goldmine
11 - David Bowie - Can't Help Thinking About Me
12 - David Bowie - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide

The Joe Elliott Show - 10th January 2026 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)

Show Intro

Evening all, and welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.

Hope you’re all doing well. Now, January is a very tough month for a lot of people, but specifically for us rock folk, because as you know, last week was the 40th anniversary of the passing of Phil Lynott.

This week, it’s also the 35th anniversary of the passing of the late, great Steve Clark.

And it’s also — and this is really hard to believe — to the day, ten years since David Bowie died.

So tonight is a 60-minute special on the music of David Bowie.

Starting off with this absolute beauty from the Ziggy Stardust album — yes folks, that’s where I came in.

David Bowie

I can still remember lying on my bed, looking at the album cover whilst listening to it, and then getting up after 20 minutes to flip it over to play side two, then lying back down and reading the liner notes once again.

Absolutely brilliant album.

It is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars from 1972.

The song we just heard, “Starman.”

David Bowie

Just a year later, he would drop this in our laps.

And before that, we heard from the 1973 album Aladdin Sane, the follow-up to Ziggy Stardust, the opening track “Watch That Man.”

David Bowie

Once covered by Peter Noone — he of Herman’s Hermits fame.

In fact, his version actually had David Bowie playing the piano.

But that is Bowie’s own version from the 1971 album Hunky Dory.

It is “Oh! You Pretty Things.”

The Cybernauts

Now, talking of covers — and this is probably a little-known fact, even to the most hardcore Def Leppard fans — but in my career, I have recorded at least 30 David Bowie songs.

Here’s a couple of them in a few minutes’ time — Def Leppard, of course.

Right now, this is the Cybernauts.

And before that, the Cybernauts with a cover of another song featured on the Aladdin Sane album, this time recorded in a rehearsal room in Japan to accompany the internet-only release of Cybernauts Live, which was recorded at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 1997, but not released until 2001.

The song that we just heard, “Panic in Detroit.”

Def Leppard

From the 2006 covers album Yeah!, that is Def Leppard with our version of the Aladdin Sane classic “Drive-In Saturday.”

You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock, this week celebrating the music of David Bowie, who passed away ten years ago today.

Coming up, a couple of great examples of Davy Bowie lending his enormous talent to other artists.

Mott the Hoople

And before that, imagine writing the song of a generation and giving it away to another artist.

Well, that’s exactly what David Bowie did when he gave that song to Mott the Hoople.

But what we just heard there is a version from the 1999 anthology album, pieced together by Dale Griffin, Mott’s drummer.

It is David Bowie’s guide vocal over the original backing track, with Ian Hunter left to do the scatting over the chorus.

A very, very clever version of “All the Young Dudes.”

Lou Reed

Arguably his best — but absolutely his most successful — album, that is Lou Reed from 1972.

The album is Transformer, produced by Mick Ronson and David Bowie.

The song we just heard, “Satellite of Love.”

David Bowie

Now here’s a couple of songs that show David Bowie’s very healthy infatuation with Syd Barrett.

And before that, from the 1973 covers album Pin Ups, which is absolutely the blueprint for Def Leppard doing the Yeah! album, we heard yet another Syd Barrett classic, “See Emily Play.”

David Bowie

Live from the Royal Albert Hall back in 2006, that is David Bowie guesting with David Gilmour and Rick Wright on the old Pink Floyd classic “Arnold Layne.”

David Bowie

Now, when you’re hot, you’re hot — and just like T. Rex in 1972, sometimes David Bowie’s B-sides were as good, if not better, than the A-sides.

And before that, a song that was recorded during the Ziggy Stardust sessions but wasn’t released until it was a B-side of the 1975 re-release of “Space Oddity.”

It is the wonderful “Velvet Goldmine.”

David Bowie

Originally recorded in 1966 and credited to David Bowie and the Lower Third, that is the re-record from the year 2000, shelved until 2021 when it got its first ever official release on the Toy album.

The song is “Can’t Help Thinking About Me.”

Show Outro

And that, my dear friends, in what has been a celebration of the music of David Bowie, is about it for this particular show.

It has been a pleasure, albeit — as I said at the top of the show — January is a very difficult month, with Phil Lynott, Steve Clark, David Bowie, and next week, Dale Griffin.

So no doubt I shall be featuring a few songs by Mott the Hoople.

So until then, I shall say thanks for listening.

Tune in next week at exactly the same time.

I’m not going anywhere — hopefully neither are you.

So until then, I shall leave you with this.

We shall go back to the album that we started this show with — 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

This is “Rock and Roll Suicide.”