The JOE ELLIOTT Show 8th March 2025 Playlist/Transcript

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The Joe Elliott Show

Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott hosted another edition of his weekly radio show on 8th March on Planet Rock.

This week's show included songs by AC/DC, Badfinger and Def Leppard.

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 - 8th March 2025 Playlist

01 - New York Dolls - Trash
02 - Badfinger - Day After Day
03 - Def Leppard - No Matter What (Live 2005)
04 - The Damned - New Rose
05 - New York Dolls - Stranded In The Jungle
06 - Utopia - Overture: Mountaintop And Sunrise Communion
07 - Steve Hillage - Hurdy Gurdy Man
08 - The Tubes - TV Is King
09 - AC/DC - Down Payment Blues
10 - New York Dolls - Jet Boy

The Joe Elliott Show - 8th March 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.

Always a pleasure to be with you, although this week it is tinged with a certain amount of sadness because it really has been a whoppingly big week for the Grim Reaper.

So, it's the Joe Elliott obituary show once again, but we're going to do this show as an honour to these people with a smile on our face and celebrate what they've done.

So let's get started.

This is the New York Dolls.

New York Dolls

Yeah, as we all know, I love to celebrate the fact when somebody's passed away and they've made some music that's really touched me. I want to play it and celebrate it.

It's just really sad that it just seems to happen a lot more often.

I do believe, in fairness, that a lot of it is just down to the internet and social media. These people's lives are in our faces 24/7, so it's not just like reading it on a Thursday afternoon like we used to do in the '70s. That, "Oh, such and such passed away" could have been two weeks ago, but it took so long to get through.

Unless you were like Mark Bolan or Elvis Presley, it didn't really resonate as much, but these days it's coming at you from all sides.

And this week there's been a bunch of them, and one of them was David Johansen, who only a few weeks ago I was saying, "Please get well soon," but sadly, he was beyond getting well, and he has gone to the great gig in the sky. The New York Dolls are fully reformed in heaven because that's every single one of them that has gone.

So I'm going to play a couple of their songs tonight, in fact, maybe even more. That's from their debut album The New York Dolls in 1973, the song Trash.

Badfinger

Now here's another band fully reunited on Cloud Number 9 because sadly, this week we lost Joey Molland.

Here's a couple of songs made famous by Badfinger.

And before that, the band themselves, Badfinger, a wonderful group signed to the Beatles' Apple label. They were that highly thought of by the Fab Four.

From their Straight Up album, we heard that wonderful bit of work called Day After Day.

Rest in peace, Joey Molland.

Def Leppard

Yes, when Def Leppard was choosing songs for the covers album YEAH!, back in 2004 when we started thinking about the album, to a man, all five of us said, "We've got to do this song because it's such a fantastic tune."

And it stands the test of time whether it be our version or their version, but that is an alternative our version, if you like. It's from the YEAH! Live album that's in one of the box sets. I forget which one, actually two or three maybe, I think it's the third one.

Live somewhere in the world in 2005, it is Def Leppard with No Matter What.

The Damned

And also, rest in peace, Brian James.

Here's The Damned.

And before that, The Damned. And literally, I was changing my set list for this particular show literally about half an hour ago because the news had just come in about Brian James.

And I saw The Damned live at the Sheffield Top Rank, and it was the changing of the guard, and it was exciting. And they were exciting.

Taken from their definitive collection Black Is the Night, we just heard, I think, their first ever single, and I think, actually, the first-ever punk single to be released New Rose.

New York Dolls

The thing I liked about the New York Dolls the most was their personalities. They weren't the greatest musicians in the world, but they made a great cacophony of sound as a unit. And they had a fantastic sense of humor, as can be heard on that song from their second album in 1974, Too Much Too Soon.

It is the New York Dolls, of course, with Stranded in the Jungle.

This is The Joe Elliott Show right here on the wonderful Planet Rock.

Coming up, we're going to go over the top, in fact, over the mountaintop.

Utopia

And before that, we heard Utopia themselves, featuring Todd Rundgren on guitar, from that wonderful album in 1977 called Ra. What we heard was Overture, Mountaintop and Sunrise, Forward Stroke, Communion with the Sun.

Steve Hillage

Two top tunes from two top albums right there. We just heard Steve Hillage from his wonderful album L, with Hurdy-Gurdy Man, a cover of an old Donovan tune.

That album is actually Utopia with Steve Hillage playing guitar and Todd Rundgren manfully stepping to one side to produce the album. So it's essentially Utopia with Steve Hillage on guitar.

The Tubes

And sticking with Todd Rundgren, here's a song from an album that he produced for The Tubes.

And before that, we heard The Tubes from 1979, as I mentioned earlier, produced by Todd Rundgren. The album is Remote Control, and the song that we heard is TV Is King.

Unless, of course, you're listening to Planet Rock, in which case, radio is king.

AC/DC

Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones has publicly declared that album as one of his favourite albums of all time.

Well, that's one thing that the two of us have got in common because it is probably my favourite ACDC album too. It is Powerage, a wonderful bit of work called Down Payment Blues.

Show Outro

And my friends, that is about it for this week. Sad as it's been, it's been a joy to dig out some of this music that I haven't maybe played for a while and just realize how much it means to any of us and all of us, and me specifically.

I'm going to end the show with one more New York Dolls song, and I will see you all next week at exactly the same time.

So until then, let's go out with this one from their debut album, 1973. This is a wonderful bit of work called Jet Boy.

Till next week. See ya.

Def Leppard 2024.