The JOE ELLIOTT Show 20th December 2025 Playlist/Transcript
The Joe Elliott Show
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 20th December on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by Ricky Warwick, The Black Crowes and Yes.
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 - 20th December 2025 Playlist
- 01 - Ricky Warwick - Anybody Wanna Waste Some Time
- 02 - Aerosmith/Yungblud - Problems
- 03 - The Black Crowes - Remedy
- 04 - Luke Spiller - Merry Xmas Everybody
- 05 - 10CC - Art For Art's Sake
- 06 - Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
- 07 - Yes - I've Seen All Good People
- 08 - The Doobie Brothers - Black Water
- 09 - Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren
- 10 - The Skids - Into The Valley
The Joe Elliott Show - 20th December 2025 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)
Show Intro
Evening all, and welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
How you doing? Great to be with you. It’s almost Christmas.
I’ve already got about 60 minutes to play some wonderful tunes, so let’s get started.
Showing absolutely no waste of time, with Ricky Warwick.
Ricky Warwick
Featuring some lovely lead work there from Vivian Campbell. That is my best mate, my best man, Mr. Ricky Warwick, from his album Love Many, Trust Few, with “Anybody Wanna Waste Some Time”.
Aerosmith/Yungblud
Well, not I, so let’s press on.
One more time, once again featuring Yungblud. This is Aerosmith.
And before that, yes, I know I played them last week, and I’ve got a feeling I should be playing them again next week, because I really like this bit of work.
It is an EP called One More Time. It is Aerosmith featuring Yungblud. The song we just heard was “Problems”.
The Black Crowes
The album is The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by The Black Crowes. The song we heard, a great bit of work, is called “Remedy”.
Luke Spiller
Well, as we all know, Christmas is rapidly approaching, and I’d made a pact with myself not to play any Christmas tunes this week — until this little beauty dropped down the chimney.
This is Luke Spiller.
And before that, well, we all know the Slade original, don’t we?
I mean, we’ve known it since 1973, those of us of a certain age. But have we heard a version of it like that before now? We haven’t.
It is “Merry Xmas Everybody”, taken to a completely different place by Luke Spiller.
10CC
One of the most creative bands to come out of the 70s, and they do not get half as much airplay as they deserve, so I thought I’d just give that a little nudge on tonight.
It is 10CC from 1975. The album is How Dare You. The song, a big hit for them at the time, “Art for Art’s Sake”.
You’re listening to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
Coming up, some classic stuff.
Jethro Tull
About this time of year. Almost to the very day in 2017 — which is what, eight years ago? Good Lord.
I was actually performing with Ian Anderson in Bradford Cathedral, helping him raise money for church roof restoration. What an honourable thing to do, and what an honour it was for me to be able to sing “Life’s a Long Song” and “Up the ’Pool” with the legend that is Ian Anderson.
So I thought I’d give him a spin tonight.
Jethro Tull there, from the album Stand Up, with the first song I ever heard from the band back in, like, 1968. I think it is. The song is “Living in the Past”.
Yes
And before that, absolutely wonderful stuff from the Yes album The Yes Album.
The band, of course, is Yes. The song we heard was “I’ve Seen All Good People”.
The Doobie Brothers
Now here’s a couple of fantastic acoustic tracks, starting off with the Doobie Brothers.
And before that, we heard the Doobie Brothers from an album called What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits.
We heard “Black Water”.
Paul McCartney
Well, in my humble opinion, that song — out of all the songs that he has written — is right up there with the likes of “Blackbird”. He, of course, being Sir Paul McCartney.
Taken from an album that came out in 2007 called Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, that is the wonderful “Jenny Wren”.
Show Outro
And that, my dear friends, from this not very Christmassy — apart from the Luke Spiller Christmas edition — Joe Elliott Show, is about it for this week.
It’s been a real pleasure, as always. I shall be back with you next week at exactly the same time, with some of my favourite songs from 2025. I will not be able to play them all, but some of them.
So until then, I shall leave you with this from their greatest hits album.
This is The Skids with “Into the Valley”.
Until next week, Merry Christmas, and see ya.
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