The JOE ELLIOTT Show 17th May 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 17th May on Planet Rock.

This week's show included songs by David Bowie, Thin Lizzy and Def Leppard.

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 - 17th May 2025 Playlist

01 - UFO - Natural Thing
02 - Judas Priest - Diamonds And Rust
03 - AC/DC - Rock 'N' Roll Damnation
04 - Rush - Fly By Night / In The Mood
05 - Thin Lizzy - Emerald
06 - David Bowie - The Jean Genie
07 - Mountain - Walking With A Mountain
08 - The Rolling Stones - All Down The Line
09 - KISS - King Of The Night Time World
10 - Def Leppard - Wasted (Live 2023)

The Joe Elliott Show - 17th May 2025 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)

Show Intro

Evening all, and welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show — and we are on the wonderful Planet Rock!

Coming to you this week all the way from Ocean City in Maryland, in the USA, where Def Leppard are back on the road.

Yes, the tour started Thursday night in San Juan in Puerto Rico.

Tonight, we have this huge big festival — and Viv is back.

It's all good.

Now, to celebrate the fact that we're back on the road, every song that I've chosen tonight is a live version.

And I think there's going to be something for everybody.

So, let's get started, shall we?

This is UFO.

UFO

To a certain generation of rock fans, it is right up there as one of the greatest live albums of all time.

Along with the likes of Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous, maybe Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive.

But this is UFO — the album is Strangers in the Night — and the track that we heard, the opening song, Natural Thing.

Judas Priest

Right then, let’s go and get Unleashed in the East.

This is Judas Priest.

And before that, we heard Judas Priest from Unleashed in the East, recorded, of course, in Japan.

We heard their brilliant take of the Joan Baez song Diamonds and Rust.

AC/DC

Now, why were those two albums not double albums, you ask?

And so do I — and I've been asking for decades.

I think they both had enough material to put together a fantastic double album, but ce la vie, it didn’t happen.

They’re still great albums anyway.

We just heard AC/DC from If You Want Blood You've Got It, with Rock and Roll Damnation.

Rush

Now, I had the great pleasure of seeing this band’s first ever gig in the UK.

And they pretty much played this entire album with one new song stuck in the middle.

This is Rush.

And before that, Rush, from the album All the World’s a Stage.

Which, as I mentioned earlier, I saw them perform pretty much intact on their first ever gig in the UK — Sheffield City Hall.

And the only new song they played was Xanadu, which is pretty good — 11 minutes long.

But what we just heard now was Fly by Night and In the Mood.

Thin Lizzy

Well, I mentioned the album earlier, so I was never not going to play anything from it, was I?

Yes, it’s Thin Lizzy from Live and Dangerous — but it is the deluxe version of Live and Dangerous.

With about six or seven different gigs in it.

So, the version of the song that we just heard may not be the one we’re all familiar with from the original double vinyl, if you like, because it’s hard to tell them apart, to be quite honest — they’re all that good.

So it really doesn’t matter, does it?

Yes, so it’s Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous — the song Emerald.

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

This week coming to you all the way from Ocean City in Maryland in the USA.

Coming up — a medley of songs from an album that was recorded on a very historical night at the Hammersmith Odeon, way back in 1973.

David Bowie

And before that, David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars.

I said that it was a historical gig because it was the night that David Bowie, as I mentioned — maybe last week actually — actually split The Spiders on stage.

And that particular medley of songs that we just heard was never on the original Ziggy Stardust Motion Picture album.

They couldn’t get the rights for it — but they have now, which is great — because it features on the Moonage Daydream soundtrack.

And it is a medley of The Jean Genie and Love Me Do, which not only features The Spiders from Mars with David Bowie, but also Jeff Beck.

Mountain

Well, the first artist that we heard there — it may well have been a historical performance.

But the second artist we just heard was definitely a controversial one, because we’re talking about a band who wedged their Hammond organ under the fire curtain at the Hammersmith Odeon so they could carry on playing after curfew.

How naughty — and how wonderful — that they could do that.

God, I wish I’d seen that gig.

Mountain there, from the original live album in 1974, with Walking with the Mountain.

The Rolling Stones

Now, the next song we’re going to hear is from an album that was only released about three years ago,

but was actually recorded in 1977 — and it is a stonker.

This is The Rolling Stones.

And before that, The Rolling Stones, from an album called El Mocambo 1977, recorded in a club in Canada as part of a deal to allow Keith Richards to keep playing on stage

and traveling from country to country after a drug bust, to be quite honest.

But a great deal was done — and thank goodness — and it finally came out in 2022, I think it was.

It’s a brilliant, brilliant album.

And the song that we heard — All Down the Line.

KISS

But I couldn’t do a live show without playing a track from that particular album, could I?

Good Lord, Geoff Barton would have my guts for garters.

That is KISS from Alive II, with King of the Night Time World.

Show Outro

And that, my friends, all the way from Ocean City in Maryland in the USA, is about it for this week.

It’s been a real pleasure, as always.

I shall be back with you next week from home — because it’s just two quick gigs and then we go out properly in June.