The JOE ELLIOTT Show 6th September 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 6th September on Planet Rock.

This week's show included songs by The Struts, Eagles and Heavy Metal Kids.

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 - 6th September 2025 Playlist

01 - The Struts - Could Have Been Me
02 - Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun
03 - The Clash - Complete Control
04 - Faces - Pool Hall Richard
05 - Heavy Metal Kids - Crisis
06 - Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
07 - ELO - Nightrider
08 - Eagles - Life In The Fast Lane
09 - Alice Cooper - My Stars
10 - Dr Feelgood - She's A Wind Up

The Joe Elliott Show - 6th September 2025 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)

Show Intro

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

Coming to you this week all the way from, well… London, actually.

We're doing a gig tomorrow night in Chelmsford, but we're in London. We'll pop down there tomorrow. Actually, might pop down there tonight.

Whatch Bryan Adams, not seen him for a while. He has a new album out, and I'm gonna play a track from that next week—because it's so tight this week with the 60 minutes that we have, that we have to start where we're starting.

Where else could you, with this beauty from The Struts featuring Sir Brian May?

The Struts

Being quite tight with both Brian and The Struts. I was aware that this was in the works, as it were, and I'm so glad that it's turned out the way it did—because it's always been a great song. It’s been around for, what, a decade already?

But what a brilliant rework—The Struts, with, as I said, Sir Brian May, with a brand-new version of the song "Could Have Been Me."

Sex Pistols

Right, as we all know, this is often the Joe Elliott Obituary Show, but for the last couple of weeks, it's been the Birthday Show.

It remains so.

Happy Birthday to Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols!

And before that—Steve Jones—Jonesy—happy birthday, mate.

I played soccer with him, Vivian, and I think it was Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury from The Cult, back in the early '90s. And Jonesy scored a 35-yard smash-a-roo into the top corner. He was amazing.

Maybe not so much these days—but what a great guy, and what a great album it is:

Never Mind the Bollocks—it’s The Sex Pistols, with "Holidays in the Sun."

The Clash

Yeah—two Joneses back-to-back right there. Mick Jones—not, of course, Foreigner's Mick Jones—but The Clash's Mick Jones, with a song from their debut album back in 1977: "Complete Control."

Faces

Now, that was a couple of punk bands back-to-back. Here's another couple of bands—not exactly punk, but punk of their time, if you like—and absolutely an influence on a lot of punk bands.

They were accepted by punk bands because they were a little different from other rock bands at the time.

We start off with The Faces.

And before that, we heard The Faces from an album called "Snakes and Ladders", with the immortal Pool Hall Richard.

Heavy Metal Kids

Absolutely magnificent stuff there, from their second album.

"Anvil Chorus," released in 1975—it is The Heavy Metal Kids with "Crisis."

You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show, coming to you this week all the way from The Big Smoke.

Coming up—a little bit of foreplay (woo-hoo!) with Boston.

Boston

And before that, we heard Boston, from their debut album—and what an album it is. We heard:

"Foreplay / Long Time."

ELO

Such an amazing talent that man is—it is, of course, Jeff Lynne, the band ELO (Electric Light Orchestra), the album "Face the Music."

Beautiful bit of work—"Nightrider."

Eagles

All right then—time to check into the Hotel California with The Eagles.

And before that, we heard The Eagles from one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.

That album is "Hotel California."
The song we heard: "Life in the Fast Lane."

Alice Cooper

There’s a new album out with the original lineup—minus Glen Buxton, who is sadly no longer with us, although he does actually make an appearance on the record in a ghostly fashion.

But that is the original lineup from one of the greatest things they ever did, in my humble opinion.

From the 1972 album "School's Out", that is Alice Cooper with "My Stars."

Show Outro

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

Been a real pleasure, as always.

I will hopefully see some of you in June and July of 2026, when the Def Leppard juggernaut rolls back into the UK for the first time since we toured with Mötley Crüe in 2023.

It will have been three years.

Really looking forward to that—but until then, we shall mosey on with this show.

So until next week, I shall leave you with this beauty from a collection called "Singled Out."

This is Dr. Feelgood with "She's a Wind-Up."

Till next week—see ya!.

Def Leppard 2024.