The JOE ELLIOTT Show 31st January 2026 Playlist/Transcript
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 31st January on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by ZZ Top, AC/DC and Genesis.
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 - 31st January 2026 Playlist
- 01 - ZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas
- 02 - AC/DC - Sin City
- 03 - The Sweet - Set Me Free
- 04 - Be Bop Deluxe - Music In Dreamland
- 05 - The Babys - Isn't It Time
- 06 - The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow
- 07 - Genesis - I Know What I Like
- 08 - UFO - Natural Thing
- 09 - Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Midnight Moses
- 10 - Scorpions - Catch Your Train
The Joe Elliott Show - 31st January 2026 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)
Show Intro
Good evening everyone, and welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.
This week it is coming to you all the way from Las Vegas, where Def Leppard are in rehearsal for the residency that lasts most of the month of February.
It starts on the 3rd, just in a few days’ time.
But I do have time to spend with you guys for the next 60 minutes, so where should we start?
Where else could we start?
Than right here with ZZ Top.
ZZ Top
Yep, so far so good with the rehearsals.
It’s going really, really well, and I look forward to bringing the show to the UK as well later on this year.
But we’ve started the show off there with the obvious really.
It’s from their Greatest Hits album.
It is ZZ Top with Viva Las Vegas.
AC/DC
And seeing as we are here.
And before that, what else?
Of course I was going to play it.
It’s AC/DC from that wonderful album Powerage with Sin City.
The Sweet
You might be a little bit surprised to know that myself and Andy Scott, the guitarist in that band that we just heard, are quite often texting each other.
Especially on Saturday afternoons, because me being a Sheffield United fan and he being a Wrexham fan, and now we’re both in the same division.
Occasionally there’s a reason to text each other.
It’s normally when they’re beating us, but there you go.
He’s a lovely guy, and it’s great to stay in touch with him, even though he’s mostly all about football.
That is Sweet, taking home their 1974 album Sweet Fanny Adams, out-purpling Deep Purple there with Set Me Free.
Be Bop Deluxe
Right, well from Sin City, which of course we all know is Las Vegas, let’s go visit a Yorkshire town that I frequent quite often on the show — Wakefield.
This is Bebop Deluxe.
And before that, from the 1975 Roy Thomas Baker-produced Future Armour album, we heard Bebop Deluxe with the new stereo mix of Music in Dreamland.
The Babys
Such a great song that is.
It’s The Babies from the album Broken Heart.
The song is Isn’t It Time.
You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show right here on the wonderful Planet Rock, this week coming to you all the way from Las Vegas in Nevada.
Coming up, we’re going to go and visit Their Satanic Majesties, by request.
The Rolling Stones
And before that, we heard The Rolling Stones from the album Their Satanic Majesties Request, by request, with She’s a Rainbow.
Genesis
Long before they became a chart-topping success, that band were always a little quirky.
But it’s good to know that one of their quirky songs actually did chart.
And answers on a postcard if you think that it’s one of the craziest song titles that you’ve ever heard.
It’s Genesis from the album Selling England by the Pound.
The song is I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe).
Say no more.
UFO
Ever go to a school disco and have one of the teachers shout out, “Oh you — no heavy petting in here”?
Well, this show does not condone that behaviour.
It encourages it.
This is UFO.
And before that, from 1976, we heard UFO from the album No Heavy Petting, with Natural Thing.
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
I gotta say, I am absolutely chomping at the bit for the box set that is coming out in March.
It’s going to be incredible.
About 23 discs, I believe it is, of all live performances of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
But until that does come out, let’s just enjoy what we heard from the album Framed.
We heard Midnight Moses.
Show Outro
And that, my dear friends, all the way from Las Vegas in Nevada, is about it for this particular show.
It’s 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.
So until then, I should leave you with this.
Once again, the Grim Reaper has been around and taken one of our own to the great gig in the sky this time.
It is ex-Scorpions bass player Francis Buchholz, who was in the band when Def Leppard toured with the Scorps.
We were third on the bill, they were in the middle, and Ted Nugent was headlining.
All the way back to 1980, 46 years ago.
He was a decent bloke, so let’s give him a good send-off.
This is the Scorpions with Catch Your Train.
Till next week — see ya!
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