The JOE ELLIOTT Show 23rd August 2025 Playlist/Transcript
The Joe Elliott Show
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 23rd August on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by Robert Plant, Ian Gillan and Sparks.
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 - 23rd August 2025 Playlist
- 01 - Aerosmith - Nine Lives
- 02 - Robert Plant - Slow Dancer
- 03 - Ian Gillan - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Ft. Joe Elliott)
- 04 - Foo Fighters - Making A Fire
- 05 - Silverchair - The Greatest View
- 06 - Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Tomahawk Kid
- 07 - Nick Drake - River Man
- 08 - The Babys - Head First
- 09 - Fanny - Blind Alley
- 10 - Sparks - Amatuer Hour
The Joe Elliott Show - 23rd August 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 once again. Got some fantastic music lined up for you tonight.
There's no better way to get this show started than with this particular beauty from Aerosmith.
Aerosmith
Now there are rumours—yes indeed, there are rumours—that Aerosmith are not done.
Now, they did retire from the road because Steven Tyler was having voice problems,
but I think he proved to the entire world just a few short weeks ago at the Ozzy Osbourne Tribute Show that he still has wonderful pipes. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Maybe it would only be a residency rather than a tour, but until then, let's just enjoy them on record.
That is the mighty Aerosmith, title track from their album Nine Lives.
Robert Plant
Now, instead of being the Joe Elliott Obituary Show this week, it is actually the Birthday Show.
A couple of very important birthdays to acknowledge this week.
In a few minutes’ time, Mr. Ian Gillan, who was the grand old age of 80 just a few days ago.
But right now, happy birthday to Robert Plant.
And before that, we heard Mr. Robert Plant—absolutely wonderful bit of work, all 7 minutes and 46 seconds of it.
The album: Pictures at Eleven
The song: "Slow Dancer", featuring some brilliant drumming from Cozy Powell.
Ian Gillan
So, sometime back in the distant early '90s, Ian Gillan flew over to Dublin.
To be a goalkeeper in a charity game between an English team and an Irish team that was playing before the real Irish team played Wales.
And I think it could have been a European Championship kind of qualifier—50,000 people at Lansdowne Road.
And we got to play football in front of all those people.
We lost 1–0, but we had a great time.
We had an even better time in the evening, and we became what's known as The Neverly Brothers—
because we tried to do The Everly Brothers, but I think we were a little too far gone on the whiskies to take it too seriously.
But many, many years later, he called me up and said, "Would you fancy resurrecting the Neverly Brothers, and let’s do it like the Everly Brothers on this song that he was doing for an album called Gillan’s Inn?"
And it is a cover of an old Bob Dylan tune, and it is yours truly with Ian Gillan duetting on a song called "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight".
Which I’m playing in honour of Ian’s 80th birthday.
So happy belated birthday, Ian.
Foo Fighters
Right then, let’s move on quickly to Medicine at Midnight.
This is The Foo Fighters.
And before that, we heard The Foo Fighters, a wonderful bit of work from the album Medicine at Midnight.
The last album to feature the very talented Mr. Taylor Hawkins on the drums.
The song we heard: "Making a Fire".
Silverchair
Now, if my memory serves me correctly, those guys were so, so young when they started out.
They made Def Leppard look like veterans when we started out—and we were pretty young.
And I don’t think they were taken overly seriously because of that fact, which is a real shame because they developed into a really, really great band.
Then, Silverchair, taken from an EP—we just heard the title track, "The Greatest View".
You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
Coming up, we’re going a-pirating with The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
And before that, we heard The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, the wonderful pirating tale that is "Tomahawk Kid".
That comes from the album The Impossible Dream.
Nick Drake
Not being someone that’s ever smoked the wacky-backy,
I didn’t know what Five Leaves Left meant when I first read it.
I just thought it was a wacky title, because I’d been listening to that gentleman—who is, as it happens, Mr. Nick Drake—since I was about 10 years old.
I only realized when somebody—let's say more experienced in that kind of thing—
explained to me that it means that when you do your own roll-ups, and you get to where there’s only five leaves left, there’s a little message that comes up and tells you.
You live and learn, don’t you?
Yes—Nick Drake, from said album, with a wonderful bit of work called "River Man".
The Babys
Right—head first, this is The Babys.
And before that, we heard The Babys, the title track of their album, Head First.
Fanny
Forgive me if you’ve heard this tale before, but it’s worth telling.
Back in the early ’70s, music fans like myself would discover bands.
Sometimes when the music papers of the day—the likes of Record Mirror, Sounds, Melody Maker, NME—
would give away flexi-disc singles occasionally, and you would discover some great music.
And that song that we just heard is something that I discovered when it was a flexi-disc in, I believe, the NME in 1972.
The band: Raspberries—...only joking. The band: Fanny.
It’s taken these days—because it’s not as scratchy as those flexi-discs were—from a box set called First Time in a Long Time.
The song is "Blind Alley".
Show Outro
And that, my dear friends, is 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,
all the way from Virginia Beach, in Virginia, which happens to be the last show of this particular leg of the Def Leppard tour.
So, until then, I shall leave you with this:
As I said earlier in the show—it’s not the obituary show this week, it’s the birthday show.
And just a few short days ago, another gentleman—alongside Ian Gillan—was celebrating his 80th birthday.
That gentleman is Ron Mael from Sparks.
So here they are, from the album Kimono My House, with "Amateur Hour".
Till next week—see ya!
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