The JOE ELLIOTT Show 9th May 2026 Playlist/Transcript
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 9th May on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by Rod Stewart, Joe Elliott and Cindy Elliott.
Cindy Elliott 1932-2026
Sadly Joe revealed his mother Cindy passed away a few days ago.
The entire show was dedicated to her and included Joe's version of 'This Is For You' which coincides with the recent Mick Ronson anniversaries and the release of the 'Heaven And Hull' album.
In late 2024 Joe mentioned his Mum's upcoming 93rd birthday (25th January 2025) on the show which revealed the dates of both of his parents birthdays.
She turned 94 earlier this year.
Goin' Forever
At the end of the show Joe played a special recording of Cindy Elliott singing his first song 'Goin' Forever' which he wrote in 1968.
The recording was made by Joe Elliott Snr who passed away in July 2011 with Joe dedicating an entire episode of this show to him a couple of weeks later.
Joe's own version from the same time period was first aired in the April 2015 'Rock Icons: Joe Elliott' show on VH1 Classic TV in the USA.
A few seconds of that recording was included in the show.
Joe also revealed in an interview that Mutt Lange and said the band should record the song in the 80s after Joe had played it to him.
Listen to the song via the link below which lasts for 3:32 mins at the very end of the show.
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 - 9th May 2026 Playlist
- 01 - Splodgenessabounds - Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
- 02 - The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
- 03 - Faces - Cindy Incidentally
- 04 - The Beatles - Now And Then
- 05 - UFO - Love To Love
- 06 - The Rolling Stones - Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
- 07 - David Bowie - Life On Mars?
- 08 - Joe Elliott - This Is For You
- 09 - Jethro Tull - Life Is A Long Song
- 10 - Slade - Get Down And Get With It
- 11 - Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Runaway
- 12 - Cindy Elliott - Goin' Forever - (Joe's first written song)
The Joe Elliott Show - 9th May 2026 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)
Show Intro
Evening all, welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show right here on the wonderful Planet Rock. Hope you're all well.
It’s a very emotional show for me tonight. I’ll fill you in as we go along, but I’ve got some great music to play. It’s very appropriate music to play, and some very strange music to play, which is where we’re gonna open the show.
Right here with Splodgenessabounds.
Splodgenessabounds
It’s not the most obvious of songs that would ever be a hit, but it did get a lot of airplay when it came out. I remember it was flavour of the week, at least amongst my little teenage gang back in the day.
And I heard a great story that the singer became a chauffeur driver who once drove Gene Simmons. So who knows what happens to these people when they’ve had their one hit — or almost one hit, as it is.
Splodgenessabounds with “Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please”.
The Dave Clark Five
Right from the bizarre to the classic, this is The Dave Clark Five.
Before that we heard The Dave Clark Five with “Glad All Over” from 1965.
Faces
Wonderful stuff there from Faces, from their album Ooh La La, that is “Cindy Incidentally",
The Beatles
Right then, here are the Fab Four.
And before that we heard The Beatles from 1967–1970, the 2023 edition. The new song, as it was — the third of three new songs that they have done since they started this Anthology collection. We heard “Now and Then”.
UFO
What a great band. They were absolutely wonderful stuff from 1977, it’s UFO. The album is Lights Out. The song that we heard, probably one of the first what you might call rock ballads from that era, is “Love to Love”.
You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
Coming up, the sweet sounds of The Rolling Stones.
The Rolling Stones
And before that we heard The Rolling Stones, with a new album coming out in July, I believe it is. But this is from just three years ago now — 2023, I believe it was. Hackney Diamonds is the album. The song that we heard, which featured Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder, was “Sweet Sounds of Heaven”.
David Bowie
In my humble opinion, one of the greatest albums ever made. 1971, the album is Hunky Dory, the artist David Bowie. Of course, the song we heard is the immortal “Life on Mars?”
Joe Elliott
Alright, here we go. This is me.
And before that, yours truly from the Beside Bowie documentary. Now the original version was by Mick Ronson from 1975, on his second solo album Play Don’t Worry. A song written by a gentleman called Laurie Heath, once a member of The New Seekers.
The song is “This Is for You”.
Jethro Tull
Now I will never forget that when I was gifted that EP back in, I think, 1972, it was the first time I’d ever seen five songs on one seven-inch single. Because those folk of a certain age will remember singles were mostly one song on either side — maybe sometimes two on the B-side.
But to have two on the A-side and three on the B-side — that is value for money, folks.
It is Jethro Tull. The song can normally be found on their 1972 compilation album Living in the Past. The song I chose to play tonight: “Life’s a Long Song”.
Slade
And if that sounded like some kind of dedication, it absolutely was — to one of the most wonderful human beings that I’ve ever had the pleasure to know for every second of my life.
And you’d be very surprised to hear these next couple of songs were two of her favourite songs of all time.
This is Slade from the 1976 Whatever Happened to Slade soundtrack album.
And before that we heard the mighty Slade from their Feel the Noize: Greatest Hits collection with “Get Down and Get With It”.
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
That is The Sensational Alex Harvey Band with their amazing version of Del Shannon’s “Runaway”.
Show Outro
Two of the favourite songs of all time by my mum, Cindy, who sadly passed away at the grand old age of 94 just a few days ago.
All of the songs that we’ve heard tonight were either favourites of my mum’s, songs that she bought for me when I was a kid, or songs like the opening tune by Splodgenessabounds that she did so brilliantly on karaoke. You had to be there to believe it.
Now my dad, as has been well documented, gave us the £150 that we needed to record the Def Leppard EP. But it was my mum, many years earlier back in 1968, who taught me the few chords that I know so I could write my own songs.
And write my own songs I did.
And I’m gonna finish tonight’s show with something very special to me: a cassette recording that has survived all these years that my dad made of my mum performing a song that I wrote in 1968.
Here it is — Cindy with the aptly titled “Goin' Forever”.
Love you, Mum.
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