The JOE ELLIOTT Show 27th September 2025 Playlist/Transcript
The Joe Elliott Show
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 27th September on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by T. Rex, David Bowie and Led Zeppelin.
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 - 27th September 2025 Playlist
- 01 - T. Rex - Sunken Rags
- 02 - David Bowie - Watch That Man
- 03 - Mick Ronson - Billy Porter
- 04 - Thunder - She's So Fine
- 05 - Dirty Honey - Rock Steady
- 06 - Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
- 07 - Nick Drake - River Man
- 08 - UFO - Hot 'N' Ready
- 09 - Pat Travers - You Don't Love Me
- 10 - The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
The Joe Elliott Show - 27th September 2025 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)
Show Intro
Evening all,
Welcome once again to—yes—The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
How you doing?
Always a pleasure. Great to be with you once again.
One hour we have to play some wonderful music.
We have a very unwelcome visitor this week.
More of a reminder than a taker this week—but a taker nonetheless.
Yes, the old Reaper's been round.
I didn’t get a chance to play this a couple of weeks ago because my playlists were just jammed with new stuff, and so this took a back seat.
But it's gonna take front and center right now, top of the show.
It’s the 16th—I think it was—of September, 1977.
RIP Marc Bolan.
This is T. Rex.
T. Rex
Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, no doubt...
But I honestly think that in '72–'73, Marc Bolan's B-sides were actually better than the A-sides that followed.
This song could have been a huge hit, but I believe it was relegated to maybe the B-side of Children of the Revolution.
I can’t quite remember.
It's taken from an album simply called B-Sides.
It is T. Rex.
It is Sunken Rags.
David Bowie
Staying in almost the same time zone and over to Marc Bolan’s frenemy—this is David Bowie.
Before that, his old boss, David Bowie, of course.
Mick Ronson played guitar.
He was basically Ziggy on five David Bowie albums.
I believe that would have been: The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and Pin Ups.
We just had a track from the 1973 album Aladdin Sane, for which the artwork is going up for auction pretty soon—expected to fetch over £300,000.
Wow.
I bet David Bowie never thought about that when he was writing the song we just heard, which just happens to be:
Watch That Man.
Mick Ronson
The hit single in waiting that sadly never quite was.
It got a lot of play on the radio, got a lot of spins on the dance floor.
I saw girls dancing to this all over Sheffield.
Mick Ronson. The second album, 1975: Play Don't Worry.
The song: Billy Porter.
Thunder
Right—after that glamtastic beginning to the show, let’s move on to something a little more bluesy now...
Featuring one of the greatest blues singers this side of the '80s.
I’m talking about Danny Bowes.
This is Thunder.
Before that, as I said in the intro for the song:
Incredible singing from Danny Bowes.
The band are Thunder.
The album: Backstreet Symphony.
The song we heard: She’s So Fine.
Dirty Honey
Yes, they’re drip-feeding songs from this upcoming Bad Company tribute album—like, one every couple of weeks.
I think I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that myself and Phil Collen are actually performing the song Seagull with Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke,
But I’m not allowed to play that until the album comes out in November.
So, until then—you get Dirty Honey.
The album is called Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute to Bad Company.
The song we just heard: Rock Steady.
You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
Coming up—well, let’s just say I think I was there...
Led Zeppelin
Before that, we heard Led Zeppelin—from the live EP that’s been released to celebrate 50 years of the album Physical Graffiti.
And again—I’m reminded that just a few days ago was the 45th anniversary of the passing of John Bonham.
So, Grim Reaper dude, please take a holiday, will you?
I know that was a long, long time ago, but he’s always waiting in the wings, isn’t he?
And the song that we heard—well, we all know what it is.
But I did say that I may well have been there.
Led Zeppelin played Knebworth in August of 1979—on the 4th and the 11th.
We were there, as a band, on the 4th.
And I remember that so well, because on the 5th of August 1979, Def Leppard signed their record deal with PolyGram Records in Rick Allen’s parents’ kitchen—because he was 15 and too young to sign himself.
You couldn’t make it up.
But you can’t deny—what we just heard is an incredible live version of the song: Kashmir.
Nick Drake
Now, I don’t know what it is about this guy.
I don’t know whether it’s the Colin Blunstone-like vocal performances, or the fragility of the gentleman that I’ve read about for so many years.
He was so, so, so, so young when he lost his life.
But he did manage to make a couple of really great records.
And there’s a recently released box set celebrating his debut album.
The box set is called The Making of Five Leaves Left, which is the name of the album.
He is Nick Drake.
And what we just heard there is a song called River Man—but it’s a vastly different performance to the version that made the main album.
This is actually Take Two, from 1969.
Now—I didn’t know I was going to say this when I put this show together...
But I put these two songs back-to-back.
And then I’m reminded by people that just a few days ago, the bassist that played on River Man—a gentleman called Danny Thompson, who used to play with Richard Thompson and Donovan—
He’s been around the scene for many, many, many years.
And sadly, just a few days ago, the Grim Reaper took him to the great gig in the sky.
Which is why I mentioned the uninvited guest at the top of the show.
UFO
Right, over to another fantastic band that I have a massive obsession for: this is UFO.
And before that, we heard the wonderful UFO, from that amazing album that is Obsession—with Hot and Ready.
Pat Travers
I saw them open for the Sensational Alex Harvey Band—twice—back in 1976, and I was an instant fan.
And within three and a half years, Def Leppard were opening for them on our first ever American tour in 1980.
Here is Pat Travers.
From his second album Making Magic, which features the recently retired Nicko McBrain on drums.
The song we just heard: You Don’t Love Me.
Show Outro
And that, my dear friends, is about it for this particular show.
Been a real pleasure, as always.
I know I say it every week—but I mean it every week.
I shall be back with you next week at exactly the same time.
So, until then—don’t go anywhere.
I shall leave you with this little beauty.
And I’ve always wanted to say this:
Any song that features the word Subbuteo is fine by me—a game I once played Steve Harris from Iron Maiden at...
And he beat me. Heavily.
Because he flicked, I kicked—and I didn’t know.
From the album Hypnotised, this is The Undertones with My Perfect Cousin.
Till next week—see ya.
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