The JOE ELLIOTT Show 14th February 2026 Playlist/Transcript
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 14th February on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by Mott, Billy Squier and Pat Travers.
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 - 14th February 2026 Playlist
- 01 - Mott - Shouting And Pointing
- 02 - Atomic Rooster - Devil's Answer
- 03 - Argent - Hold Your Head Up
- 04 - Billy Squier - The Stroke
- 05 - Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
- 06 - Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
- 07 - Paul Stanley - Tonight You Belong To Me
- 08 - Pat Travers - Hooked On Music
- 09 - UFO - Out In The Street
- 10 - Lone Star - All Of Us To All Of You
The Joe Elliott Show - 14th February 2026 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)
Show Intro
Evening, all. Welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show.
Right here on, you know where, the wonderful Planet Rock, once again coming to you from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Where Def Leppard are in residency. All going brilliantly so far. Living the dream, as always.
Sixty minutes of wonderful music coming up for you tonight. So, are you ready to do a bit of shouting and pointing?
Good. Here’s Mott.
Mott
What a great way to start the show. That’s a song once covered by Down 'n' Outz on their debut album all the way back in 2010. I think it came out—what—sixteen years ago now? Incredible stuff.
It is Mott. It is the title track of their 1973 album Mott.
Atomic Rooster
So, you know when you like a song and you’re not that familiar with the band, but the song stays in your DNA for life? There’s a couple of great examples of that for me, starting off with Atomic Rooster.
And before that, Atomic Rooster. Again, I don’t know too much other than they were born out of the ashes of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and once featured in their ranks Carl Palmer from Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
But that is Atomic Rooster from their collection Sleeping for Years, with the big hit single Devil’s Answer.
Argent
So, yeah, hand on heart, I really don’t know too much about the couple of bands that we just heard, other than the fact that Argent—that is them that we just heard—were born out of the ashes of The Zombies and, of course, featured Rod Argent on keyboards.
They also had in their ranks Russ Ballard for a while, who wrote their other hit, God Gave Rock and Roll to You, and a lot of other songs for a lot of other artists. But that is Argent, a hit single for them in 1972, Hold Your Head Up.
Billy Squier
Right, prepare yourself. One of the greatest reverse snare drums that you will ever hear.
This is Billy Squier.
And before that, produced by Reinhold Mack, who would go on to make many albums with Queen, we heard Billy Squier from his 1981 album Don’t Say No with The Stroke.
Blue Oyster Cult
Bonkers riffage there from Blue Öyster Cult from the wonderful live album Some Enchanted Evening. We just heard Godzilla.
You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show right here on the wonderful Planet Rock, this week once again coming to you all the way from Las Vegas, where Def Leppard are in residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Coming up, some classic Rod Stewart from his solo album released in 1978, on the same day that every member of Kiss released a solo album.
Rod Stewart
And before that, we heard Rod Stewart from back in 1971, from the first album I ever bought—and I still have it. The price sticker is still on: two pounds and eleven pence from Sine Electric in Broomhill, Sheffield. What a brilliant album.
We just heard the title track, Every Picture Tells a Story.
Paul Stanley
That is Paul Stanley from the album of the same name with Tonight You Belong to Me.
Pat Travers
So, from telling stories to making magic, this is Pat Travers.
And before that, we heard Pat Travers from his second album in 1977, which also featured Nicko McBrain on the drums, who would go on to major success, of course, with Iron Maiden. The song that we heard: Hooked on Music.
UFO
I’ve been listening a lot to that band while we’ve been in Vegas these last couple of weeks, and I have to say their first three albums for Chrysalis Records are absolutely underrated. There’s some great music.
I thought I’d play one tonight from their second album for that particular label back in 1975. The album is Force It. It is, of course, UFO with Out in the Street.
Show Outro
And that, my dear friends, once again all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada, that’s about it for this particular show.
Been a real pleasure, as always. I shall be back with you next week at exactly the same time.
So please don’t go anywhere. Until then, I shall leave you with this, featuring the greatest riff that Ritchie Blackmore never wrote.
This, from the album Firing on All Six, is Lone Star with All of Us to All of You.
And from all of me — see ya.
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