The JOE ELLIOTT Show 5th July 2025 Playlist/Transcript
The Joe Elliott Show
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 5th July on Planet Rock.
This week's show included songs by Cheap Trick, AC/DC and Queen.
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 - 5th July 2025 Playlist
- 01 - Ovary Axe - Rise Up To Fall
- 02 - Cheap Trick - Blood Red Lips
- 03 - AC/DC - Dog Eat Dog
- 04 - The Struts - Pretty Vicious
- 05 - Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Boston Tea Party
- 06 - Queen - Ogre Battle
- 07 - Ian Hunter - Silver Dime
- 08 - Dirty Tricks - Night Man
- 09 - Be Bop Deluxe - Forbidden Lovers
- 10 - Little Steven/The Disciples - Guns, Drugs, and Gasoline
The Joe Elliott Show - 5th July 2025 Transcript - (Transcribed by dltourhistory)
Show Intro
Evening all, and welcome once again to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on—you know where—the wonderful Planet Rock.
This week, it is coming to you all the way from Quebec, in Canada.
How exciting is that?
But excitement only lasts for 60 minutes on this show, because that’s all I’ve got.
We're going to start off with a brand-new tune now.
This is a band I doubt you've ever heard of.
This is Ovary Axe.
Ovary Axe
Now, if I was to tell you that the lady singing that song is the very same lady that sang the piano version of Pour Some Sugar On Me along with me and the boys on the Drastic Symphonies album, you might be going, “Eh, really?”
It is.
It is the beautiful Emm Gryner.
She has a band called Ovary Axe.
I like the name. Get it? Like Ovary Axe.
It’s actually Ovary, as in ladies' parts, Axe, A-X-E, as in, you know, nickname for a guitar.
And that’s the name of the band.
The album is going to be called Used To Bleed.
And the song that we just heard: Rise Up To Fall.
Great work, Emm, well done.
Cheap Trick
Now I’m on the road, and one of the things that I have to do.
I can’t say that I honestly enjoy it too much, but I do it because it’s a necessity... is go to the gym.
And when I go to the gym, I like to listen to some music that inspires me.
These next couple of bands are exactly what I need to hear when I get on that damn treadmill.
And before that, Cheap Trick, from that brilliant album Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello, we heard Blood Red Lips.
AC/DC
Yes, just what you need to hear when you are pumping iron, running on a treadmill, or just basically sweating your—you-know-what’s—off for an hour or so, just to keep the old blood flow going.
That is wonderful stuff there from the album Let There Be Rock:
AC/DC with Dog Eat Dog.
The Struts
Now, we finally—after 10 years of being, I should say, mutual admirers of each other—finally got to do a gig with The Struts the other night, and we got to hang out, and that was good.
Yeah.
Going to the gym’s a necessity.
Hanging out with the boys in our little compound after the show was also a necessity.
It was such a great, great night, and finally, to work together with these guys was an absolute joy.
So I thought I should play a song from them this week.
This is The Struts.
And before that, The Struts, who we finally did a gig with, and we have a few more lined up—so really looking forward to that.
From their latest album from just a couple of years ago, we heard the title track: Pretty Vicious.
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Well, having just spent six nights basing out of the wonderful city that is Boston in Massachusetts, I thought I should acknowledge the fact tonight by playing that.
It’s The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, from their 1976 album SAHB Stories, with Boston Tea Party.
You are listening to The Joe Elliott Show, right here on the wonderful Planet Rock, this week coming to you all the way from Quebec, Canada.
Coming up, some epic Queen.
Queen
And before that, we heard Queen, from that wonderful album that is Queen II, with the absolutely epic Ogre Battle.
Ian Hunter
Yes, Mr. Ian Hunter and his good lady wife Trudi came to visit Def Leppard just a couple of days ago when we played a place called Mohegan Sun, up in Connecticut.
Always good to see the two of them.
Always good to go back and forth with Ian—never shy with his opinions.
And so I thought, just to keep the flavour of that going, I would play something from one of his least favourite albums he ever made.
It just happens to be one of my favorite albums that he ever made.
It’s 1977’s Overnight Angels.
The song: Miss Silver Dime.
Dirty Tricks
Now, a good drum intro can really solidify a relationship between a listener and a song.
Think Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin, or even Rock of Ages by us.
Here’s a couple more examples for you, starting off with Dirty Tricks.
And before that, a band that never really took off—but trust me, go back into their three original albums.
I know they did release one maybe only about 10–15 years ago, but 1974, '75, and '76, when they were putting albums out—they were definitely like a baby Free.
They were a great little band.
I saw them open for somebody at the city hall.
I don’t even remember who was headlining, but I remember Dirty Tricks.
And there, from their third album, we just heard the title track: Night Man.
Be Bop Deluxe
If you're a regular listener to my show, you will know already that 1976 was a very big year for me when it came to going to gigs.
I saw probably 90% of everything I ever wanted to see in 1976, including the two bands that we just heard there.
We just heard Be-Bop Deluxe, from the album Modern Music, with Forbidden Lovers.
Show Outro
And that, my friends, is about it for this week, all the way from Quebec, Canada.
Been a real pleasure, as always.
I shall be back with you next week at exactly the same time, from Regina in Saskatchewan—still in Canada.
So until then, I shall leave you with this:
From the album Born Again Savage, featuring Jason Bonham on drums and U2’s Adam Clayton on bass, this is Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul with Guns, Drugs and Gasoline.
Do not try this at home, folks.
Till next week, see ya!
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