The JOE ELLIOTT Show 30th May 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 30th May on Planet Rock.

This week's show included songs by The Rolling Stones, Pat Travers and Stone Temple Pilots.

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 - 30th May 2026 Playlist

01 - The Rolling Stones - In The Stars
02 - The Tubes - Turn Me On
03 - Split Enz - I Got You
04 - Sniff 'N' The Tears - Driver's Seat
05 - Brian Protheroe - Pinball
06 - Pat Travers - Makin' Magic
07 - Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Boston Tea Party
08 - Stone Temple Pilots - Lady Picture Show
09 - Rod Stewart - I'm Losing You
10 - Mick Ronson - White Light White Heat

The Joe Elliott Show - 30th May 2026 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)

Show Intro

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

Great to be with you.

In this next 60 minutes or so, I'm going to be playing you some of my favourite tunes. I'm also going to be playing some new old stuff and some new new stuff, like this beauty.

So let's get those foreign tongues wagging, shall we?

This is brand new The Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones

It's hard to believe, but those guys have been a band longer than Rick Allen has been alive. I swear to God it's true.

But they give us something to look up to, don't they? They just never stop. They create new music. They're still creating new music all these years later.

There's a great meme going around at the moment that shows Willie Nelson and Keith Richards helping to move the stones as they were building the Egyptian pyramids, which is a great metaphor really for the fact that they are just a timeless outfit.

And the album is out very soon. I believe it's either June or July that the album's out. The album is called Foreign Tongues. This is the second track that they've dropped from the album. The first one actually was dropped on Record Store Day under the name of The Cockroaches.

But this is full-blown The Rolling Stones. This track is called In the Stars.

The Tubes

Right, these next couple of tunes could well be described as classic '80s synth-pop rock.

Yep, starting off with The Tubes.

And before that, we heard The Tubes from the Todd Rundgren-produced album Remote Control with Turn Me On.

Split Enz

I saw that band opening for Jack the Lad, who themselves were a spin-off of Lindisfarne. So you can imagine the kind of mismatch of music.

From the original version of Split Enz, for that is them that we just heard. They were almost like Genesis. So imagine Genesis opening for folk rock. Strange but true.

But they were amazing. I won the album through some competition in one of the music magazines back in the early-mid '70s, and I actually fell in love with their first album.

But once Neil Finn joined the band, they totally changed direction. And from the 1980 album True Colours, we just heard Split Enz with their first ever hit, I Got You.

Sniff 'N' The Tears

Now, to be put into the category of what's known as a one-hit wonder is something that you can either mock or admire. For these next couple of tunes, I tend to fall into the latter category.

Starting off here with Sniff 'n' the Tears.

And before that, we heard Sniff 'n' the Tears, taken from an album called Fickle Heart. Wonderful bit of work called Driver's Seat.

Brian Protheroe

He was best known as an actor — not that I've ever seen him act in anything — but he did make records, and he made a beauty back in the mid-'70s. A very haunting song by a gentleman called Brian Protheroe. Big hit for him. A song called Pinball.

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

Coming up, we're going to make some magic with Pat Travers.

Pat Travers

And before that, we heard Pat Travers from 1977, the title track of his second album, Makin' Magic.

Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Well, there's the new old favourite. Fantastic stuff from The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. It's part of their 21-CD box set, which is called Good Evening Boys and Girls.

And that's from the disc which is called Faith Healer on Peter Street: Live in Manchester, 9 May 1976.

And I was almost there, because I was at the Sheffield gig, 35 miles away, about a week either side of that particular show. And they did play that song.

And that song was a hit.

And that song is The Boston Tea Party.

Stone Temple Pilots

Well, here's a band that I've not played for quite a while, so let's put that right.

This is Stone Temple Pilots.

And before that, we heard Stone Temple Pilots, taken from an album with the brilliant title Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, with Lady Picture Show.

Rod Stewart

If you're a long-time listener to my show, forgive what you're about to hear, because you've heard it all before.

But that song is taken from the first album that I ever bought with my own pocket money — £2.11 from Zodiac Toys & Records in Broomhill, Sheffield.

It is Every Picture Tells a Story from 1971.

Rod Stewart with an amazing cover of an old Temptations track called I Know I'm Losing You.

Show Outro

And that, my dear friends, is about it for this particular show.

It's been a real pleasure, as always.

I shall be back with you next week at exactly the same time, so please, please, please, please don't go anywhere. There's just nowhere else to go, is there?

Until then, I shall leave you with this.

Celebrating the fact that this Tuesday gone would have been his 80th birthday.

Count them. Eighty. 80th birthday.

Sadly, he only lived to be 46, but what he left behind left its mark. Oh yes, it did.

He is Mick Ronson.

And from his second solo album, Play Don't Worry (1975), with a song that was a leftover from David Bowie's 1973 covers album Pin Ups.

This is Mick with his version of the classic The Velvet Underground tune White Light White Heat.

Until next week. See ya.