The JOE ELLIOTT Show 25th April 2026 Playlist/Transcript
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 25th April on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by Queen, Prince 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 - 25th April 2026 Playlist
- 01 - Queen - Tie Your Mother Down (Live 1992)
- 02 - Osmonds - Crazy Horses
- 03 - Traffic - Feelin' Alright?
- 04 - Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge
- 05 - Prince - Purple Rain
- 06 - Yes - Rhythm Of Love
- 07 - Trevor Rabin - Live A Bit
- 08 - UFO - Too Hot To Handle
- 09 - Blue Oyster Cult - The Reaper (Live)
- 10 - Def Leppard - Switch 625 (Drastic Symphonies)
The Joe Elliott Show - 25th April 2026 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)
Show Intro
Good evening all, and welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock. Great to be with you once again. Hope everybody's well.
This week's show is a bit of a do-not-explain one. The Grim Reaper has been knocking, and he has been taking. We're also in a week where there's a lot of anniversaries of the Reaper's visit, so we're going to be kind of focusing on that in the first half of this show.
So let's get started with this, shall we?
20th of April 1992, which this Monday gone was 34 years ago.
Queen
This has become a thing of pub legend in the quiz department: who was the first person to sing with the remaining members of Queen after Fred passed away? Yours truly, apparently, and also featuring Slash on that particular song.
It was the opening song of Queen's set, 20th of April 1992, which was 34 years ago earlier this week, from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Show. We just heard Tie Your Mother Down.
Osmonds
Right, well last week I may have put a few noses out of joint when I played Clannad, just to honour the passing of their wonderful singer, Moya Brennan. Well, this one will probably put a few noses out of joint too, but I don't care because I think it's fantastic.
This is The Osmonds.
And that song was good enough to be covered by the likes of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Ricky Warwick's Black Star Riders.
So it's rock as far as I'm concerned, and I'm playing that because Alan Osmond died this week at the age of 76. It is from the album Osmondmania. It is, of course, Crazy Horses.
Traffic
The Joe Cocker version may be the more well-known version of that song, but that is the original, and it's Traffic from 1968. I play that because just recently, a few days ago, we lost Dave Mason. He was a member of the band on that particular song.
Now, Traffic would split after the second album, and Dave Mason would leave the band, so his contribution was only on the first two albums. Any historians out there will know that Steve Winwood went on to form Blind Faith. They only lasted for a little while, and then, without Dave Mason, Traffic reformed and went on to bigger and better things, while Dave Mason went on to be a solo artist.
But his contribution to early Traffic is undeniable. The song that we just heard, and of course he also sang Hole in My Shoe, the legendary Hole in My Shoe, once covered by Neil from The Young Ones. But I digress.
That is Traffic featuring the late, great Dave Mason with Feelin’ Alright.
Fairport Convention
Well, these next couple of tunes could come under the headline of this week's deaths in rock history, starting off with Fairport Convention.
And before that we heard Fairport Convention, honouring the memory of Sandy Denny, who passed away on the same day, April the 21st, 1978, 48 years ago. She was a member of Fairport Convention. She was briefly a member of The Strawbs, but mostly known as a solo artist, and the only guest vocalist to ever sing on a Led Zeppelin song.
She sang on The Battle of Evermore back in 1971 on Led Zeppelin IV, but there we just heard her with Fairport Convention from the album What We Did on Our Holidays with the wonderful Meet on the Ledge.
Prince
The undeniable sound of Prince there, who passed away ten years ago this week. Unbelievable stuff. We just heard all eight minutes and 45 seconds of the title track of the amazing album that is Purple Rain.
You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
Coming up, we're going to take a bit of a timeout from the Grim Reaper and live a bit.
Yes
And before that, the band that Trevor Rabin would go on to join in the mid-eighties: it's Yes. Check it from the album Big Generator with Rhythm of Love.
Trevor Rabin
Now, I bought that album on the strength of Geoff Barton's review in Sounds magazine back in 1977. It is South African-born wonder guitar player Trevor Rabin from the album of the same name. The song is Live a Little.
UFO
And before that, UFO from the classic live album Strangers in the Night. We heard Too Hot to Handle.
Blue Oyster Cult
What a great live version that is. It is, of course, Blue Öyster Cult from the album Extraterrestrial Live. It is Don't Fear the Reaper.
Show Outro
And that, my dear friends, that is about it for this week. 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: we shut down the Reaper at the break, but we're bringing him back one more time. How could I ignore this?
23rd of April would have been Steve Clark's 66th birthday, so he would have loved this. We took his song and we gave it the air of a James Bond car chase.
From the album Drastic Symphonies, this is Def Leppard with the updated version of Switch 625.
Happy birthday, Steve. Till next week—see ya.
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