The JOE ELLIOTT Show 1st March 2025 Playlist/Transcript

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The Joe Elliott Show

Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 1st March on Planet Rock.

This week's show included songs by Status Quo, Yes and Thin Lizzy.

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 - 1st March 2025 Playlist

01 - Status Quo - Paper Plane
02 - Bren Berry - Knives (Heavy Metal Rain)
03 - Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
04 - Heavy Metal Kids - Crisis
05 - Stray - One Night In Texas
06 - Yes - Parallels
07 - 10CC - I'm Mandy, Fly Me
08 - Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
09 - Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Davy's On The Road Again
10 - Thin Lizzy - Roisin Dubh A Rock Legend

The Joe Elliott Show - 1st March 2025 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)

Show Intro

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

Always a pleasure, 60 minutes is all we have, one hour.

It flies by because it's such good music, in my humble opinion, of course.

Where we're going to start tonight, we're going to go pile-driving with the mighty Quo.

Status Quo

When you look back over their career, you can kind of look at that song and think that's where they fell onto what you might call the formula.

They thought, you know what, we've got that head-down rock and roll boogie thing.

And they just went on to bigger and bigger things from there.

But that's from the album "Piledriver", it is Status Quo, it is "Paper Plane".

Bren Berry

Now, Def Leppard's sound guru is a gentleman called Ronan McHugh.

He co-produces our albums, engineers them, he does our out-front live sound.

So he pretty much does everything that we do.

Now, he once produced an album by a really cool Irish indie band called Revelino.

It must be 20, 25 years ago now.

The band no longer exists, but his next-door neighbour is the guitarist from that band.

And he's just released a solo album.

Ronan didn't have anything to do with it other than probably just hearing it through his kitchen window on coffee breaks.

But I thought you might want to hear a track.

This is Bren Berry.

And before that, brand new music from a gentleman called Bren Berry.

The album is "In Hope, Our Stars Align" and the song is called "Knives (Heavy Metal Rain)".

Wreckless Eric

This is a song that always floats my boat.

I saw him do it live at the Sheffield Polytechnic as part of the Stiff Life Stiff Tour back in 1977, I think it was.

It is "Reckless Eric" taken there from a collection called "Cash".

From "Chaos 3", it is "Whole Wide World".

Heavy Metal Kids

Well, we just heard Heavy Metal Rain, and you know I like my cheesy links, here's the Heavy Metal Kids.

And before that, the Heavy Metal Kids, wonderful stuff from their second album "Anvil Chorus".

We heard "Crisis".

Stray

I saw both of those bands at the Sheffield Top Rank on the Sunday night rock extravaganza that was Improvisions.

We just heard Stray there, taken from the "Time Machine Anthology 1970-77", with, in my humble opinion, the best thing they ever did, a song called "One Night in Texas".

You are listening to the Joe Elliott Show right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.

Coming up, we're going for the one with Yes.

Yes

And before that, we heard Yes, wonderful stuff from that album "Going For the One", some incredible organ sounds there from Mr. Rick Wakeman, the song that we heard, "Parallels".

10CC

They were such a fantastic creative force at their peak, a wonderful, wonderful band.

It is 10CC taken from the album "How Dare You" with "I'm Mandy, Fly Me".

Ringo Starr

Now, when a band as magnificent and as huge as the Beatles decide to split, it's a very sad thing for a fan.

But the good thing that comes out of it is that all four members would release music to much critical and commercial acclaim and success, like this one by Ringo Starr.

And before that, we heard Ringo Starr with just a little bit of help from his friend George Harrison.

Taken from "Photograph" for his greatest hits, we heard "It Don't Come Easy".

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Another one I saw live, I've seen them all this week.

This was at the Sheffield City Hall this time, though, in 1978, I think it was, on the "Roaring Silence" Tour when they were fronted by the incredible talent that is Mr. Chris Thompson.

That is "Manfred Mann's Earth Band" with "Davy's On The Road Again".

Show Outro

And that, my friends, is about it for this week.

It's been a real pleasure, as always.

Don't I say it every week? Don't I mean it every week?

I should be back with you next week, though, at exactly the same time, so please don't go anywhere.

Until then, I shall leave you with this from 1979, from the album "Black Rose".

This is Thin Lizzy with "Roisin Dubh (Black Rose, A Rock Legend)".

Till next week, see ya!

Def Leppard 2024.