The Friday Rock Show

3 Jan 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. AC/DC - Shake Your Foundations
2. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star
3. Kooga - She Walks in Beauty (st)
4. Jeff Beck - People Get Ready
5. Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning (live)
6. Kooga - Across the Water (st)
7. Y+T - Hungry for Rock (live)
8. Y+T - Black Tiger (live)
9. Y+T - I Believe in You (live)
10. Y+T - Open Fire (live)
11. Y+T - Forever (live)
12. Y+T - Rescue Me (live)
13. Kooga - Lay Down Your Love (st)
14. Twisted Sister - Leader of the Pack
15. Journey - Lights / Stay Awhile (live)
16. Demon - Nowhere to Run
17. Budgie - Time to Remember
18. Accept - Winter Dreams
19. Fates Warning - Pirates of the Underground
20. Blue Öyster Cult - Dancing in the Ruins
21. Kooga - Gabrielle (st)

Notes

Live concert from the archives: Y+T from the Reading Festival, 1982.

Session: Kooga.

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 15-18): Stuart Pontin of Wakefield.

Comments about Phil Lynott who is still in intensive care at the time of this show date the show to either 27 Dec 1985 or 3 Jan 1986 (he was hospitalised on 25 Dec 1985 and died on 4 Jan 1986). Comments before Lie Back and Enjoy It suggest that we're soon after Christmas. Best guess: 3 Jan 1986.

10 Jan 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Thin Lizzy - Vagabond
2. Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
3. Thin Lizzy - Eire
4. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (live)
5. Thin Lizzy - Still in Love with You (live)
6. Thin Lizzy - [unknown track]
7. Thin Lizzy - The Cowboy Song
8. Thin Lizzy - The Rocker
9. Thin Lizzy - Boys are Back in Town
10. Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Got Me in Its Spotlight)
11. Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
12. Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready (live)
13. Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
14. Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat
15. Thin Lizzy - The Sun Goes Down
16. Thin Lizzy - Emerald
17. Thin Lizzy - King's Call

Notes

Special show dedicated to the memory of Phil Lynott, who died on 4 Jan 1986. It featured interview footage and Thin Lizzy songs.

Date is confirmed because it was the first Friday after Phil Lynott's death and it's mentioned in the following show.

17 Jan 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the middle.

1. AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
2. Terraplane - Don't Walk Away
3. Zero 9 - Never Stop Running
4. Black Rose - Go for the Throat (st)
5. Streets on Fire - Blown Away (st)
6. Rush - Passage to Bangkok
7. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
8. Fastway - The World Waits for You
9. Streets on Fire - Breakin' Out (st)
10. Armored Saint - Nervous Man
11. Black Rose - (Get Off Your) High Horse (st)
12. Michael Schenker Group - Into the Arena
13. Unknown - Unknown
14. [gap]
15. Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
16. Molly Hatchet - Gator Country (live)
17. Status Quo - Big Fat Mama (live)
18. Black Rose - Easy Loving You (st)
19. Peter Frampton - Lying

Notes

Sessions: Black Rose (repeat), Streets on Fire (new).

News after the show covers the evacuation of Aden, partly on the Britannia, thus dating the show to 17 Jan 1986. Tommy also mentions that AC/DC are live on stage in London during the show; that would be their 17 Jan 1986 Wembley Arena show. This is one week after the Phil Lynott special, dating that show to 10 Jan 1986.

Tommy mentions that he'll be re-broadcasting archive material starting following week.

Intro also mentions that there will be tracks by Iron Maiden, UFO and Dio.

Tracks in italics are from Iain Kennedy's recording. The Unknown track sounds indie and ought to be titled Might as Well.

24 Jan 1986

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1. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
2. Vow Wow - Hurricane
3. Tormé - Teenage Kicks (st)
4. Pallas - Throwing Stones at the Wind
5. Honeymoon Suite - Bad Attitude
6. Tormé - My Baby Loves a Vampire (st)
7. Rose Tattoo - One of the Boys (live)
8. Rose Tattoo - Manzil Madness (live)
9. Rose Tattoo - Bad Boy for Love (live)
10. Rose Tattoo - Assault and Battery (live)
11. Rose Tattoo - The Butcher and Fast Eddie (live)
12. Rose Tattoo - Rock 'n' Roll is King (live)
13. Rose Tattoo - Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw (live)
14. Rose Tattoo - Sun's Gonna Shine
15. Armored Saint - Long Before I Die
16. AC/DC - Shake Your Foundations
17. Tormé - Wild West (st)
18. Aerosmith - Dream On
19. Aldo Nova - Hold Back the Night
20. Legs Diamond - Walk Away
21. Autograph - Deep End
22. Twisted Sister - Leader of the Pack
23. Chequered Past - Let Me Rock
24. Warlock - You Hurt My Soul
25. Tormé - Turn Out the Lights (st)

Notes

Live in concert from the archives: Rose Tattoo from the Reading Festival in 1981 (tracks 7-13; the following track 14 is a studio B-side).

Repeat session by Tormé.

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 18 to 21): Jeffrey Gay of Chulmleigh.

News after the show about Leon Brittan's resignation over the Westland Affair dates the show to 24 Jan 1986.

31 Jan 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Molly Hatchet - Boogie No More (live)
2. Fastway - The World Waits for You
3. Spider - Mind, Heart, Body and Soul (st)
4. Jade - If You're Man Enough
5. ZZ Top - Stages
6. Kiss - King of the Night Time World
7. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (st)
8. Iron Maiden - Running Free (st)
9. Spider - Gimme Gimme Gimme It All (st)
10. Seducer - Don't Fall in Love Rock 'n' Roll
11. Mötley Crüe - Smokin' in the Boys' Room
12. Cherry Bombz - Hot Girls in Love
13. Hawkwind - Jack of Shadows
14. Metallica - Fade to Black
15. ZZ Top - Blue Jean Blues
16. Gillan - No Laughing in Heaven
17. Spider - I'm Not the Only One (st)
18. Peter Frampton - Moving a Mountain
19. Iron Maiden - Transylvania (st)
20. Iron Maiden - Sanctuary (st)
21. Vow Wow - Shake Your Body
22. Marillion - Charting the Single
23. Spider - Need to Know About You (st)
24. Rush - Countdown

Notes

Sessions: Spider and Iron Maiden (first broadcast back in Nov 1979).

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-16): Fleming Lord of Oswestry.

Rush is for the astronauts who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster on 'Tuesday of this month'. The disaster was 28 Jan 1986, so presumably this show dates to 31 Jan 1986.

7 Feb 1986

I can't provide this show listing, but the BBC Genome lists this show as including a repeat of the session by Damacles that was first aired on 6 Dec 1985.

14 Feb 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Saxon - Denim and Leather
2. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
3. Artillery - Time Has Come
4. Peter Frampton - Stop
5. Statetrooper - Fire Through the Night (st)
6. Status Quo - Backwater (live)
7. Chastain - The Battle's Over
8. Accept - Screaming for a Love Bite (live)
9. Thin Lizzy - Still in Love with You (live)
10. Led Zeppelin - All My Love
11. Statetrooper - Into the Night (st)
12. Marillion - Kayleigh
13. Twisted Sister - Burn in Hell
14. Rush - Passage to Bangkok
15. Dio - Egypt (The Chains are On)
16. AC/DC - Problem Child
17. Statetrooper - She's Got the Look (st)
18. Pallas - Dance Through the Fire
19. Black Sabbath - Seventh Star
20. Motley Crue - Smokin' in the Boys' Room
21. Statetrooper - Too Late for Love (st)
22. Fastway - Waiting for the Roar

Notes

Session: Statetrooper (new).

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13 to 17): Katherine Hyatt of Swansea.

Date confirmed: 14 Feb 1986. It's Valentine's Day. Tommy also references the first broadcast date of the Statetrooper session during its repeat broadcast on 2 May 1986.

21 Feb 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (live)
2. ZZ Top - Stages
3. So What? - Good Luck to You (st)
4. Pallas - Just a Memory
5. Samson - Vice Versa
6. So What? - I Don't Know Why (st)
7. Slade - Take Me Back 'ome (live)
8. Slade - When I'm Dancin' I Ain't Fightin' (live)
9. Slade - Something Else (live)
10. Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now (live)
11. Slade - Get Down and Get With It (live)
12. Slade - Cum On Feel the Noize (live)
13. Wendy O. Williams - Pedal to the Metal
14. So What? - I've Got to Go (st)
15. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
16. Ozzy Osbourne - So Tired
17. Boston - Rock 'n' Roll Band
18. Venom - Black Metal
19. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie (live)
20. Chariot - Meet My Match
21. So What? - I'll Be Your Friend (st)
22. Black Sabbath - Turn to Stone
23. Queensrÿche - Queen of the Ryche
24. Ratt - You're in Love

Notes

Repeat session by So What?

Live from the archives: Slade from the Reading Festival 1980.

Next Friday is the Tube's Heavy Metal Special. BFI dates this to 28 Feb 1986, thus this show is 21 Feb 1986.

The AC/DC live track is from Live from the Atlantic Studios.

Intro also mentions a track by Alice Cooper.

28 Feb 1986

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1. Trojan - Tonight We Got It Made
2. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
3. Baby Tuckoo - Rock (Rock)
4. Bon Jovi - Silent Night
5. Elixir - Hold High the Flame (st)
6. Ozzy Osbourne - Killer of Giants
7. Pink Floyd - Vegetable Man (st)
8. Pink Floyd - Pow R Toc H (st)
9. Pink Floyd - Scream Thy Last Scream (st)
10. Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues (st)
11. Elixir - Pandora's Box (st)
12. Vow Wow - You Know What I Mean
13. Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
14. Whitesnake - Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City (live)
15. Far Corporation - Stairway to Heaven
16. Elixir - Son of Odin (st)
17. Yes - Hold On (live)
18. Pink Floyd - One of These Days (st)
19. King Diamond - The Portrait
20. Elixir - Star of Beshaan (st)
21. Black Sabbath - In for the Kill

Notes

Sessions: Elixir (brand new) and Pink Floyd (out of the archives). Tommy talks about the Pink Floyd masters being lost and the copy being broadcast was from a recording of a previous medium wave broadcast. He also suggests a vague date of July or August 1968 for the tracks on side A, though I think he corrects that as I'm turning the tape over, but modern research (lots of that for Pink Floyd) suggests that these date to 19 or 20 Dec 1967 (even the roio pages vary). Tommy dates the track on side B to 1969.

Comments during the show date the show exactly to 28 Feb 1986. Also, Iain Kennedy's recording includes the news, which reports on the assassination of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

The Vow Wow track sounds eerily familiar, because they re-recorded the chorus of this with new words as a jingle for The Friday Rock Show.

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 12-15): Navid Saeed of Nottingham.

Two weeks later will be a Wembley concert with Yes.

7 Mar 1986

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1. Dokken - Unchain the Night
2. Motörhead - Locomotive
3. Kooga - Across the Water (st)
4. Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady (live)
5. Diamond Head - Borrowed Time (st)
6. Diamond Head - Sweet and Innocent (st)
7. Metallica - Battery
8. Kooga - Gabrielle (st)
9. Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Out in the Fields
10. Van Halen - Panama
11. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
12. Queen - Machines (or Back to Humans)
13. Kooga - Lay Down Your Love (st)
14. Raven - Gimme Some Lovin'
15. Diamond Head - Don't You Ever Leave (st)
16. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations (st)
17. Joshua - A Heart Full of Soul
18. Status Quo - Dirty Water
19. The Tygers of Pan Tang - Take It
20. Kooga - She Walks in Beauty (st)
21. Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
22. Fastway - Girl

Notes

Sessions by Kooga (recorded last Nov) and Diamond Head (recorded on 29 Oct 1980, first broadcast on 28 Nov 1980).

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 9-12): Derek Gladding.

Motörhead comment by Tommy. 'Never get anywhere. Too loud!' This was mentioned in another show.

Date confirmed. News after the show includes Vickers & Cammell Laird being taken over by management and workers (Mar 1986), the hunt for two men who raped a vicar's daughter (Jill Saward, 6 Mar 1986) and a bad first day for England in the Trinidad test (7 Mar 1986)

Tommy announces that next week will be a repeat of the 2 hour Yes concert that originally opened the Friday Rock Show.

14 Mar 1986

I can't provide this show listing but the BBC Genome backs up comments at the end of the 7 Mar 1986 show that it's a repeat of the Yes concert that was first broadcast in 1979.

21 Mar 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. 38 Special - If I'd Been the One
2. Accept - Fast as a Shark
3. Joshua - Back to the Rock
4. Jackson Browne - For America
5. Wild Strawberries - Wild Boys (st)
6. Spider - Gimme Gimme Gimme It All (st)
7. Anthrax - Armed and Dangerous
8. Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be
9. Triumph - Just a Game
10. Spider - Mind, Heart, Body and Soul (st)
11. Wild Strawberries - Snakes Can't Dance (st)
12. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
13. Van Halen - Eruption
14. Marillion - The Web
15. The Scorpions - Coast to Coast
16. Chariot - Burning
17. Wild Strawberries - Shayla (st)
18. Spider - Need to Know About You (st)
19. Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love?
20. Outside Edge - Heartbeat Away
21. Saxon - Rock'n'Roll Gypsy
22. Wild Strawberries - Fire on the Water (st)
23. Spider - I'm Not the Only One (st)
24. Twisted Sister - Leader of the Pack

Notes

Sessions - Wild Strawberries (new) and Spider (repeat). This puts it after 31 Jan 1986.

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 12 to 15): Markuse?

News after the show talks of Baby Doc Duvalier being deposed last month. That was 6 Feb 1986, meaning this is March. The West Indies piling on the runs in the test in Barbados is presumably the third test, making this 21 Mar 1986. Dates mentioned for births and birthdays fit this week too.

28 Mar 1986

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1. Saxon - Back on the Streets (live)
2. Saxon - Dallas 1pm (live)
3. Saxon - The Devil Rides Out (live)
4. Saxon - The Power and the Glory (live)
5. Saxon - And the Bands Played On (live)
6. Saxon - Crusader (live)
7. Saxon - Princess of the Night (live)
8. Saxon - Wheels of Steel (live)
9. Saxon - Rocking Again (live)
10. Saxon - The Strong Arm of the Law (live)
11. Saxon - 747 (Strangers in the Night) (live)
12. Dokken - In My Dreams
13. Exciter - Shout It Out
14. Van Halen - Get Up
15. Van Halen - Good Enough
16. Outside Edge - Don't Be a Hero
17. The Rolling Stones - One Hit (To the Body)
18. Metallica - Master of Puppets
19. Saxon - Rock'n'Roll Gypsy

Notes

Saxon live in concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, recorded on 18 Sep 1985 and previously broadcast on 25 Oct 1985.

Date is confirmed through Tommy wishing us Happy Easter and news following the show detailing that the search for Sarah Harper's body was temporarily called off. Sarah Harper went missing on 26 Mar 1986. Easter in 1986 was on 30 Mar.

4 Apr 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Judas Priest - Turbo Lover
2. Judas Priest - Locked In
3. The Alliance - We are Strangers (st)
4. Nils Lofgren - Delivery Night (live)
5. King Diamond - Dressed in White
6. Black Rose - Need a Lot of Lovin' (st)
7. The Alliance - Keep in Touch (st)
8. Keel - Beceause the Night
9. The Firm - Fortune Hunter
10. Black Rose - Go for the Throat (st)
11. Accept - Fast as a Shark
12. AC/DC - Shake Your Foundations
13. Dire Straits - Expresso Love
14. Twisted Sister - Kill or Be Killed
15. Tobruk - Wild on the Run
16. Hear n' Aid - Stars
17. Black Rose - Get Off Your High Horse (st)
18. The Alliance - No Broken Hearts (st)
19. The Rolling Stones - Winning Ugly
20. Diamond Head - Sweet and Innocent
21. Black Rose - Easy Lovin' You (st)
22. The Alliance - Trying to Forget (st)
23. Dokken - In My Dreams
24. Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love?
25. The Enid - Sheets of Blue
26. Honeymoon Suite - Feel It Again

Notes

Sessions by the Alliance (new, repeated on 13 Jun 1986) and Black Rose (repeat from 17 Jan 1986).

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 11-14) was chosen by Sandra Buck of Wilmslow, Cheshire.

The date is clearly 1986 and after February, as Tommy identifies that when introducing the Diamond Head track. The Judas Priest tracks are from the new Turbo album which was released on 14 Apr 1986.

Tommy announces at the end that next week will be Rush live at the PinkPop Festival in Holland 1979. A complaint about the length of that show was included on the 2 May 1986 show. It definitely wasn't 25 Apr 1986, so presumably the Rush broadcast was either 11 or 18 Apr 1986 and this either 4 or 11 Apr 1986.

That's backed up by the BBC Genome which lists this show as 4 Apr 1986 with the Black Rose and Alliance sessions and the Rush concert as being on 11 Apr 1986.

11 Apr 1986

I can't provide this show listing but the BBC Genome lists it as including a Rush concert recorded in 1979.

18 Apr 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Pink Floyd - One of My Turns
2. The Rolling Stones - One Hit (To the Body)
3. Judas Priest - Reckless
4. King Diamond - The Jonah
5. Krokus - Burning Up the Night
6. Dokken - Lightnin' Strikes Again
7. The Cars - I'm Not the One
8. Manowar - Defender
9. AC/DC - Live Wire (live)
10. AC/DC - Problem Child (live)
11. AC/DC - High Voltage (live)
12. AC/DC - Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (live)
13. AC/DC - Dog Eat Dog (live)
14. AC/DC - The Jack (live)
15. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie (live)
16. AC/DC - The Rocker (live)
17. Masaki Matsubara - Da-ba-da
18. Export - No Escape
19. Ozzy Osbourne - Dee
20. Blue Öyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars
21. Raven - Screamin' Down the House
22. Bob Seger - Sometimes
23. Survivor - Ready for the Real Thing

Notes

Not my recording. Thanks to the Friday Rock Show Wiki.

25 Apr 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Forever - Harsh Reality
2. Keel - Because the Night
3. Van Halen - 5150
4. Joshua - Lovestruck
5. The Rolling Stones - Angie
6. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
7. Rush - Red Barchetta (live)
8. Legs Diamond - Steal a Heart
9. Marillion - Garden Party
10. Gary Moore - Victims of the Future
11. Roger Waters - Welcome to the Machine (live)
12. Roger Waters - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (live)
13. Roger Waters - Money (live)
14. Roger Waters - Wish You Were Here (live)
15. Roger Waters - Nobody Home (live)
16. Roger Waters - Have a Cigar (live)
17. Roger Waters - Another Brick in the Wall (live)
18. Roger Waters - Brain Damage (live)
19. Roger Waters - Eclipse (live)

Notes

Roger Waters live at Radio City Music Hall, recorded 28 Mar 1985.

Show dates to 25 Apr 1986. News after the show includes 22 Libyans expelled from Britain arriving in Tripoli. This is confirmed by Tommy dedicating the Marillion song to Fish on his birthday.

Tommy announces that next week will be Cannes and Statetrooper in session.

2 May 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Accept - War Games
2. Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight
3. Cannes - Still the One (st)
4. Hear n' Aid - Stars
5. L'amourder - Tin Drum
6. Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love?
7. Statetrooper - Set Fire to the Night (st)
8. Statetrooper - Faster Than Light (st)
9. Dio - Hide in the Rainbow
10. 38 Special - Like No Other Night
11. Cannes - Tiger of Japan (st)
12. Status Quo - Rolling Home
13. Kiss - Heaven's on Fire
14. AC/DC - Stand Up
15. Twisted Sister - You Want What We Got
16. Dio - Sacred Heart
17. Cannes - Edge of a Dream (st)
18. Journey - Be Good to Yourself
19. Statetrooper - She's Got the Look (st)
20. Statetrooper - Too Late for Love (st)
21. Krokus - School's Out
22. Powerhouse - Heaven or Hell
23. Cannes - Her Eyes (st)
24. Keel - No Pain No Gain

Notes

Sessions by Statetrooper (repeat from 14 Feb 1986) and Cannes (new).

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 12 to 16): Richard Clay from Nelson, Lancashire.

Date confirmed by Tommy's comments at the end of the previous week's show.

9 May 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. AC/DC - Who Made Who
2. Dio - Hungry for Heaven
3. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
4. Legs Diamond - Rock Doctor
5. Elixir - Hold High the Flame (st)
6. Savatage - Crying for Love
7. Savatage - Day After Day
8. Chrome Molly - I Wanna Find Out
9. Tony MacAlpine - The Wheel of Fortune
10. Jimmy Barnes - Boys Crying Out for War
11. Journey - Suzanne
12. Elixir - Pandora's Box (st)
13. Pendragon - The Black Knight
14. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
15. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
16. Razor - A Night Attack
17. Elixir - Star of Beshaan (st)
18. GTR - When the Heart Rules the Mind
19. Keel - The Final Frontier
20. 38 Special - Heart's on Fire
21. Peter Frampton - All Eyes on You
22. Elixir - In for the Kill (st)
23. Budgie - Heavy Revolution

Notes

Session: Elixir (repeat).

Lie Back and Enjoy It: Graham King of London.

Date confirmed through news after the show: a 5.75% pay deal is agreed for teachers to end 15 months of disruption, the fire is out at Chernobyl (the meltdown was 26 Apr 1986) and by-elections include the Tories losing to the Alliance at Ryedale on 8 May 1986.

16 May 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Stevie Lange - Remember My Name
2. Journey - Be Good to Yourself
3. Keel - Arm and a Leg
4. Judas Priest - Locked In
5. The Huw Lloyd Langton Group - I Could Cry (st)
6. W.A.S.P. - Wild Child
7. Jefferson Starship - Awakening
8. Genesis - Invisible Touch
9. The Huw Lloyd Langton Group - Take a Back Step (st)
10. Pallas - Imagination (or A Million Miles Away)
11. Black Sabbath - Danger Zone
12. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
13. Black Sabbath - Voodoo (live)
14. Black Sabbath - Heart Like a Wheel
15. Whiplash - Warmonger
16. Killer - Wild Boys
17. Agent Steel - The Calling/Agents of Steel
18. The Huw Lloyd Langton Group - So Long Waiting (st)
19. Dio - Hide in the Rainbow
20. ZZ Top - Rough Boy
21. Joe Cocker - Don't You Love Me Any More?
22. The Huw Lloyd Langton Group - Like an Arrow Through the Heart (st)

Notes

Session with the Huw Lloyd Langton Group. This was the first airing of the session.

Interview with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath.

Date confirmed. The news immediately following the show mentions that there has been a bomb attack on the Paris headquarters of Interpol, which was in the early hours of 17 May 1986.

23 May 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the end.

1. Anthrax - Medusa
2. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
3. Surface - Race the Night
4. Chrome Molly - I Want to Find Out
5. Wild Strawberries - Wild Boys (st)
6. AC/DC - Chase the Ace
7. Paul Samson - No Turning Back
8. Def Leppard - Bringin' On the Heartbreak
9. Def Leppard - Switch 625
10. Razor - Cage the Ragers
11. Strangeways - Cry Out
12. Wild Strawberries - Shayla (st)
13. GTR - Hackett to Bits
14. GTR - Imagining
15. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
16. AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie (live)
17. Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
18. [gap]

Notes

Session by Wild Strawberries (repeat from 21 Mar 1986).

Lie Back and Enjoy It: Alison Wasson of London.

The BBC Genome says that this show included the Wild Strawberries session. This is backed up by comments which indicate that Paul Samson's Empire had just recorded their session, which was first aired on 6 Jun 1986.

30 May 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the end and part of the beginning.

1. [gap]
2. Mötley Crüe - Ten Seconds to Love (live)
3. Mötley Crüe - Home Sweet Home (live)
4. Mötley Crüe - Keep Your Eye on the Money (live)
5. Mötley Crüe - Too Young to Fall in Love (live)
6. Mötley Crüe - Knock 'em Dead, Kid (live)
7. Mötley Crüe - Smokin' in the Boys' Room (live)
8. Mötley Crüe - City Boy Blues (live)
9. Mötley Crüe - Helter Skelter (live)
10. Whitesnake - Child of Babylon
11. Status Quo - Lonely Man
12. W.A.S.P. - Wild Child
13. Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Back Door
14. Accept - Up to the Limit (live)
15. Motörhead - On the Road (live)
16. Anthrax - Madhouse
17. Agent Steel - Guilty as Charged
18. [gap]

Notes

My recording begins with Tommy about to kick off the show with a 50 minute American concert recording but it promptly breaks and then resumes an hour later before Lie Back and Enjoy It, ending after 37m.

A longer recording (94m) by Pete Watts includes most of the concert, which is by Mötley Crüe in Fresno, CA, the section I already had (with a minor gap as Lie Back and Enjoy It begins) and a couple more tracks after it.

The concert seems to be edited. While Vince Neil does scream at Fresno, the setlist doesn't remotely match the only viable one currently available, which was at the Selland Arena in Fresno on 25 Nov 1985.

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 2 to 5) from Neil Robinson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Tommy talks about the line-up for the Monsters of Rock festival in Donington in 1986 (which was 16 Aug 1986) and comments about the Hear 'n Aid album coming out 'soon' (it was released on 6 Jun 1986). The Pete Watts recording is dated 23 May 1986 but seems more likely to be 30 May 1986 because of the Wild Strawberries session being the week before.

6 Jun 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Y+T - Go for the Throat
2. Emerson Lake and Powell - Touch and Go
3. Paul Samson's Empire - Turn on the Lights (st)
4. Pink Floyd - Absolutely Curtains
5. Dokken - In My Dreams
6. Dio - Hide in the Rainbow
7. The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff
8. Stryper - The Rock That Makes Me Roll
9. GTR - When the Heart Rules the Mind
10. Baby Tuckoo - Rock Rock
11. Paul Samson's Empire - One Day's Hero (st)
12. Twisted Sister - What You Don't Know (live)
13. Twisted Sister - Bad Boys (live)
14. Twisted Sister - Destroyer (live)
15. Twisted Sister - Shoot 'Em Down (live)
16. Twisted Sister - Tear It Loose (live)
17. Twisted Sister - Under the Blade (live)
18. Emerson Lake and Powell - Learning to Fly
19. Paul Samson's Empire - Tomorrow (st)
20. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Can You See Me
21. Judas Priest - Turbo Lover
22. Anthrax - Madhouse
23. Queen - Gimme the Prize
24. Journey - Be Good to Yourself
25. Paul Samson's Empire - A Matter of Time (st)

Notes

Session: Paul Samson's Empire (repeated on 1 Aug 1986).

Live concert: Twisted Sister at the 1982 Reading Festival.

I dated this only to mid-1986 but the BBC Genome lists this show as including the Paul Samson's Empire session.

13 Jun 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the beginning.

1. [gap]
2. Journey - Raised on Radio
3. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
4. AC/DC - Sink the Pink
5. Agent Steel - Back to Reign
6. Hawkwind - The Demented Man
7. Frank Zappa - San Ber'dino
8. FM - Love Lies Dying
9. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
10. King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King
11. Hawkwind - Master of the Universe (live)
12. Genesis - Land of Confusion
13. Genesis - The Lamb Lies on Broadway
14. Warlock - Hellbound
15. Status Quo - Again and Again
16. The Alliance - We are Strangers (st)
17. Battle Axe - Make It in America
18. Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
19. The Alliance - Trying to Forget (st)
20. Motörhead - No Class
21. Camel - Long Goodbyes

Notes

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 8-12): Alex Hitchins from Norwich.

Session: The Alliance.

There's a comment that identifies the date as Friday the 13th, and various comments date the show to 1986. This dates the show to 13 Jun 1986. The news afterwards confirms this as it includes the death of Benny Goodman.

20 Jun 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Black Sabbath - Turn to Stone
2. Warlock - Hellbound
3. Armistice - Roses (st)
4. Electric Sun - Firewind
5. Paul Sabu - Hot Flash
6. Tysondog - School's Out
7. Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain (live)
8. Black Sabbath - Neon Knights (live)
9. Dio - Stand Up and Shout (live)
10. Kim Mitchell - Lager and Ale
11. Krokus - American Woman
12. Armistice - Land of Giants (st)
13. AC/DC - Back in Black (live)
14. AC/DC - Guns for Hire (live)
15. Joshua - Hold On
16. Armistice - Lean on Me (st)
17. Ozzy Osbourne - Fool Like Me
18. Scorpions - Make It Real (live)
19. Motörhead - Deaf Forever
20. Motörhead - Doctor Rock
21. Motörhead - Nothing Up My Sleeve
22. James Young with Jan Hammer - No Mistake
23. Magnum - Lonely Night
24. Magnum - Vigilante

Notes

Guest host: Chris Tetley. Date is confirmed by the fact that it's in between the Annie Nightingale and Ian Gillan shows. Also before the Magnum track, he mentions Marillion's Garden Party at Milton Keynes next Saturday; that was 28 Jun 1986.

Interview with Lemmy. This is the show where he recites the first verse of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.

My recording hasn't aged well. Apparently Sony tapes are much more liable to warp than TDKs. Fortunately I used the latter for most of my recordings.

27 Jun 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the end.

1. Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
2. Motörhead - (We are) The Road Crew
3. Mountain - Mississippi Queen
4. Jimmy Barnes - Boys Cry Out for War
5. Little Richard - Good Golly, Miss Molly
6. Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
7. Chuck Berry - Maybellene
8. Cannes - Her Eyes (st)
9. Cannes - Still the One (st)
10. Ozzy Osbourne - Rock 'n' Roll Rebel
11. XTC - Senses Working Overtime
12. The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang
13. Tubes - Talk to Ya Later
14. Talking Heads - Creatures of Love
15. The Alan Parsons Project - The Same Old Sun
16. Deep Purple - Demon's Eye
17. Eddie Cochran - Somethin' Else
18. Cannes - Edge of a Dream (st)
19. Cannes - Tigers of Japan (st)
20. [gap]

Notes

Not my recording. Thanks to the Friday Rock Show Wiki.

Guest host: Ian Gillan.

Ian Gillan chats with Roger Glover in between tracks for most of the show.

4 Jul 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. AC/DC - Jailbreak
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Stone Free
3. ZZ Top - La Grange
4. Edgar Winter - Tobacco Road
5. Hawkwind - Motorway City (live)
6. Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
7. Van der Graaf Generator - Theme One
8. Gillan - Unchain Your Brain (live)
9. Gillan - Mr. Universe (live)
10. Gillan - I Believe in You (live)
11. Gillan - Trouble (live)
12. Gillan - Vengeance (live)
13. Gillan - Smoke on the Water (live)
14. Tommy Bolin - Teaser
15. Montrose - Space Station No. 5
16. Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
17. Propaganda - Jill
18. Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
19. Status Quo - Whatever You Want
20. Deep Purple - Fireball
21. Emerson Lake & Powell - Learning to Fly
22. Cream - White Room

Notes

Hosted by Ian Gillan from Stowe, VT, where Deep Purple were recording their new album. From comments, this is presumably the second of two shows Gillan hosted while Tommy was on holiday.

Gillan live at the Reading Festival in 1980.

Cassette labelled with the date. Also confirmed by news after the show: PC Brian Chester is acquitted of the manslaughter of John Shorthouse, staff at the Risley Remand Centre walk out and a South African bomb injures 20 people. This is the Checkers supermarket bombing in Silverton.

11 Jul 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing most of it.

1. [gap]
2. Whitesnake - Child of Babylon
3. Status Quo - Lonely Man
4. W.A.S.P. - Wild Child
5. Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Back Door
6. Accept - Up to the Limit (live)
7. Motörhead - On the Road (live)
8. [gap]

Notes

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 1-4): Neil Robinson of Jesmond, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

There's mention of rumours about the Monsters of Rock festival in Donington in 1986 (which was 16 Aug 1986), dating the show to early to mid 1986. Comments about Hear 'n Aid have the album coming out 'soon'. BBC Genome lists this show as including a session by Huw Lloyd Langton.

18 Jul 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. David Lee Roth - Bump and Grind
2. Pat Travers Band - Snortin' Whiskey
3. Warlock - Hellbound
4. Zeno - Eastern Sun
5. Excalibur - Come On and Rock (st)
6. Sledgehammer - Sledgehammer
7. Taurus - Paper Chaser
8. Queensrÿche - Surgical Strike
9. Twelfth Night - Theatre
10. Killer - Young Blood
11. Excalibur - Early in the Morning (st)
12. James Young & Jan Hammer - City Slicker
13. Motörhead - Ain't My Crime
14. Motörhead - Claw
15. David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
16. Saxon - Princess of the Night
17. Saxon - Battle Cry
18. Saxon - Bring on the Night
19. Saxon - Rock the Nations
20. Cozy Powell - Killer
21. Excalibur - Hot for Love (st)
22. Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
23. Status Quo - Red Sky
24. Excalibur - Death's Door (st)
25. Judas Priest - Exciter

Notes

Date confirmed: noted on the tape.

Session: Excalibur.

Interview with Biff Byford of Saxon.

25 Jul 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Rogue Male - Progress
2. Gillan - Bite the Bullet
3. Rio - When the Walls Come Down
4. Elixir - The Star of Beshaan
5. Tank - (He Fell in Love with a) Stormtrooper
6. Max & The Broadway Metal Choir - Sex Ain't Dirty
7. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
8. Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - High Priest of Love
9. Tredegar - Duma
10. Tredegar - The Jester
11. Seducer - I Love 69
12. Bon Jovi - Let It Rock
13. David Lee Roth - Elephant Gun
14. Angel Witch - Frontal Assault
15. The Rods - Violation
16. Motörhead - Nothing Up My Sleeve
17. Jethro Tull - Hunting Girl (live)
18. Jethro Tull - Living in the Past (live)
19. Jethro Tull - Serenade to a Cuckoo (live)
20. Jethro Tull - Fly By Night (live)
21. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (live)
22. Jethro Tull - Pussy Willow (live)
23. Jethro Tull - Aqualung (live)

Notes

Jethro Tull live at Heartbeat '86 Garden Party in Milton Keynes.

Date confirmed. Written on the cassette. News during the show also talks about the first day's results from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, which were held from 24 Jul-2 Aug 1986.

1 Aug 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Cinderella - Hell on Wheels
2. W.A.S.P. - School Daze
3. Herman ze German - Messin' Around
4. Tyga Myra - Lightning Never Strikes Twice
5. Paul Samson's Empire - Turn on the Lights (st)
6. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
7. Warlock - You Hurt My Soul
8. Queensrÿche - Walk in the Shadows
9. AC/DC - Rocker
10. Paul Samson's Empire - One Day's Hero (st)
11. Samurai - We Rock All Night
12. Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - High Heeled Heaven
13. Accept - Restless and Wild
14. Motörhead - Killed By Death
15. Iron Maiden - Flash of the Blade
16. Vow Wow - Cyclone
17. Paul Samson's Empire - A Matter of Time (st)
18. Syron Vanes - One Hell of a Show
19. Rough Cutt - Rock the USA
20. Q5 - Pull the Trigger
21. Discharge - Grave New World
22. Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
23. Surface - Race the Night
24. Paul Samson's Empire - Tomorrow (st)
25. Savage - Ain't No Fit Place

Notes

Session: Paul Samson's Empire (repeat).

Lie Back and Enjoy It: Kevin Blanche (?) of Stoke on Trent.

Date written on the cassette. News during the show also talks about Mrs. Thatcher visiting the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. 24 Jul-2 Aug 1986.

8 Aug 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Craaft - Wasted Years
2. David Lee Roth - Shy Boy
3. Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
4. Helloween - Ride the Sky
5. James Young & Jan Hammer - Empty Promises
6. Traxx - C Red
7. Target UK - Alive and Kicking
8. Metallica - Master of Puppets
9. Saxon - Crusader
10. Iron Maiden - The Trooper
11. Vectom - Loudness and Speed
12. Powerhouse - Feel the Steel
13. Whitesnake - Rough n' Ready
14. Desolation Angels - Death Machine
15. Warlock - Turn It On
16. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
17. Mama's Boys - Lettin' Go (live)
18. Mama's Boys - One Last Chance (live)
19. Mama's Boys - Runaway Dreams (live)
20. Mama's Boys - Straight Forward, No Looking Back (live)

Notes

Mama's Boys live at Heartbeat '86 Garden Party in Milton Keynes.

Lie Back and Enjoy It: Lawrence Mast of Tredegar.

Date written on cassette. Confirmed by news during the show about Peter Robinson, the deputy leader of the DUP, being arrested the day before during the invasion of Clontibret on 7 Aug 1986.

Tommy talks about Ozzy being on the show next week and Magnum being broadcast from the Garden Party in two weeks.

15 Aug 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Angel Witch - Rendezvous with the Blade
2. Quiet Riot - Down and Dirty
3. Fastway - All Fired Up
4. Armistice - Land of the Giants (st)
5. Carnivore - Armageddon
6. Elixir - Treachery/Ride Like the Wind
7. Rainbow - All Night Long
8. Queensrÿche - Queen of the Reich
9. Quiet Riot - Metal Health
10. Kiss - I Love It Loud
11. Armistice - Roses (st)
12. Bon Jovi - Burning for Love (live)
13. Saxon - Waiting for the Night
14. Deaf Dealer - On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat
15. Exciter - Feel the Knife
16. Cro-Mags - We Gotta Know
17. Armistice - Lean on Me (st)
18. Ozzy Osbourne - Interview
19. Vectom - Satan's Colours
20. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
21. Agnostic Front - The Eliminator
22. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin

Notes

Repeat session from Armistice, first broadcast on 20 Jun 1989.

Interview with Ozzy Osbourne who will headline Donington the next night. There's also mention that Doro will be appearing on the bill.

Date confirmed as 15 Aug. News after the show references deaths on K2 in 1986. In particular Alan Rouse and Julie Tullis were last seen 11 days ago. That was 4 Aug 1986.

22 Aug 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing 40 minutes in the middle.

1. Agent Steel - Mad Locust Rising
2. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
3. White Lion - All the Fallen Men
4. Whiplash - Warmonger
5. Deaf Dealer - Dead Zone
6. Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
7. Sodom - Witchhammer
8. Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
9. Destruction - United By Hatred
10. Vulcain - Approche / Blueberry Blues
11. [gap]
12. Magnum - Vigilante (live)
13. Magnum - Changes (live)
14. Magnum - How Far Jerusalem (live)
15. Magnum - Lonely Night (live)
16. Magnum - Just Like an Arrow (live)
17. Magnum - Kingdom of Madness (live)
18. Magnum - When the World Comes Down (live)

Notes

Magnum live at Heartbeat '86 Garden Party in Milton Keynes.

Date confirmed. Tommy announced the Magnum broadcast in a fortnight at the end of the 8 Aug show. Also news after the show includes John Stalker being reinstated as deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester and the second day of the final test at the Oval with New Zealand 257/8 and John Wright's fifth test century. That ran from 21-25 Aug 1986.

29 Aug 1986

I can't provide this show listing but BBC Genome says it includes a session by Persian Risk.

5 Sep 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Motorhead - Killed By Death (st)
2. Iron Maiden - The Sheriff of Huddersfield
3. Tony MacAlpine - The Taker
4. Di'Anno - Feel the Rock
5. Deaf Dealer - Sadist
6. Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - Kick Start Me for Love
7. Mass - Too Far Gone
8. Vectom - The Exterminator
9. Motorhead - Deaf Forever (st)
10. Warlock - Lady in a Rock'n'Roll Hell
11. Craaft - Hold Me
12. Tyga Myra - Ain't Got Long to Go
13. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
14. The Runaways - California Paradise
15. Kiss - Deuce
16. MC5 - Rocket Reducer No 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) (live)
17. New York Dolls - Jet Boy
18. UFO - The Way the Wild Wind Blows
19. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Burning of the Midnight Lamp
20. Iron Angel - Metal Storm
21. Motorhead - Orgasmatron (st)
22. Crumbsuckers - Prelude
23. Quiet Riot - Put Up or Shut Up
24. Rick Derringer - It Must Be Love
25. Motorhead - Doctor Rock (st)
26. Bon Jovi - Wild in the Streets
27. Illusion - I Like It Loud

Notes

Session: Motörhead (its first airing)

Lie Back and Enjoy It: Robert Coyne of London.

One dedication is for a birthday on 8 Sep. The Iron Maiden song is from their current single, released 6 Sep 1986. The Motörhead session was recorded on 16 Aug 2006 and BBC Genome dates its first airing to 5 Sep 1986.

12 Sep 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Great White - Shot in the Dark
2. Dark Wizard - Choice of Life
3. Ratt - Tell the World
4. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Testify
5. King Kobra - Overnite Sensation
6. Crumbsuckers - Interlude
7. Illusion - Calling the Law
8. Bon Jovi - Let It Rock
9. Madison - Can't Take It
10. Angel Dust - Gambler
11. Kim Mitchell - Go for Soda (12" Syphon Mix)
12. Quiet Riot - The Wild and the Young
13. Warlock - Speed of Sound
14. Gary Moore - Murder in the Sky (live)
15. Gary Moore - Wild Frontier (live)
16. Gary Moore - Empty Rooms (live)
17. Gary Moore - All Messed Up with No Place to Go (live)
18. Gary Moore - Keep on Rockin' (live)
19. Gary Moore - Wishing Well (live)
20. Gary Moore - The Loner (live)
21. Whitesnake - Love Hunter

Notes

Gary Moore live at Heartbeat '86 Garden Party in Milton Keynes.

This is certainly 1986 but I could only narrow it down to the three week period of 29 Aug to 12 Sep 1986. However fleshing out dates at BBC Genome leaves this as the only possible.

19 Sep 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Rough Cutt - Bad Reputation
2. TT Quick - Metal of Honor
3. W.A.S.P. - 95 NASTY
4. The Rolling Stones - 2,000 Light Years from Home
5. Excalibur - Hot for Love (st)
6. Agnostic Front - A Toxic Shock
7. Saxon - Rock the Nations
8. Saxon - Battle Cry
9. Vinnie Vincent's Invasion - Shoot U Full of Love
10. Angus - Heavyweight Warrior
11. Excalibur - Early in the Morning (st)
12. Forcefield - Smoke on the Water
13. Van Halen - Eruption
14. The Scorpions - Robotman (live)
15. Saracen - Rock of Ages
16. Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
17. Whitesnake - Would I Lie to You
18. Excalibur - Come On and Rock (st)
19. Voivod - To the Death
20. Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere in Time
21. Iron Maiden - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
22. The Scrubbs - Battle
23. Queensryche - Prophecy
24. Excalibur - Death's Door (st)

Notes

Date confirmed. News during the show covers the Colwich train accident on 19 Sep 1986. Next week: Bruce Dickinson interview.

26 Sep 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Purgatory - Valley of the Shadow of Death
2. Pantera - I am the Night
3. Alkatrazz - Undercover
4. Sword - Stoned Again
5. Q5 - When the Mirror Cracks
6. Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Liar
7. Detente - Russian Roulette
8. Deathrow - Riders of Doom
9. Flotsam and Jetsam - Hammerhead
10. Black 'n Blue - 12 O'Clock High
11. Stryper - C'mon Rock
12. Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Again
13. Bruce Dickinson - Interview
14. Bruce Dickinson - Interview
15. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
16. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
17. Iron Maiden - Stranger in a Strange Land
18. Peter Gabriel - No Self Control
19. Iron Maiden - Revelations
20. Iron Maiden - Wasted Years

Notes

Interview: Bruce Dickinson.

Date is confirmed as 26 Sep 1986 through closing comments of the 19 Sep 1986 show which announce Bruce will guest the following week. Closing comments here are that the album is 'out now' (released 29 Sep 1986) but the tour is upcoming on Fri 3 Oct.

3 Oct 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Metallica - For Whom the Bells Toll
2. Blue Oyster Cult - Hot Rails to Hell
3. Saxon - You Ain't No Angel
4. Vinnie Vincent's Invasion - Boys are Going to Rock
5. Anti-Cimex - Time To?
6. Warlock - Vorwärts, All Right!
7. Q5 - Let Go
8. W.A.S.P. - 95-NASTY
9. Sword - Out of Control
10. Magnum - Vigilante
11. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
12. Hawkwind - Magnu/Angels of Death (live)
13. Hawkwind - Pulsing Cavern (live)
14. Hawkwind - Assault and Battery (live)
15. Hawkwind - Needle Gun (live)
16. Hawkwind - Master of the Universe (live)
17. Hawkwind - Utopia (live)
18. Hawkwind - Brainstorm/Dream Worker/Dust of Time (live)
19. Hawkwind - Assassins of Allah (Hassan I Sahba) (live)
20. Hawkwind - Silver Machine (live)

Notes

Hawkwind live at the Reading Festival 24 Aug 1986.

Date confirmed. The Metallica track is in tribute to Cliff Burton who died 'the other day' on 27 Sep 1986.

Tommy explains the new logic for Lie Back and Enjoy It, which includes a phone number so the requester can appear on the air.

Closing comments highlight the session next week by Motörhead.

10 Oct 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Deathrow - Hell's Ascent
2. Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er
3. Girlschool - All Day, All Night
4. Motörhead - Deaf Forever (st)
5. Victory - Seven Days Without You Makes One Weak
6. Forcefield - Smoke on the Water
7. Flotsam and Jetsam - Iron Tears
8. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
9. Ratt - Dance
10. Europe - The Final Countdown
11. Motörhead - Doctor Rock (st)
12. Twisted Sister - I Am (I'm Me)
13. Mötley Crüe - Ten Seconds to Love
14. Bon Jovi - Raise Your Hands
15. Kix - Cold Shower
16. Kiss - All American Man
17. Megadeth - Devil's Island
18. Motörhead - Orgasmatron (st)
19. Queensrÿche - London
20. Iron Maiden - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
21. The Scorpions - Holiday
22. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
23. Motörhead - Killed By Death (st)

Notes

Session: Motorhead (repeat). Phil Campbell's son Dane was born the day before.

Lie Back and Enjoy It: Kathryn from Macclesfield. This has a phone call following the selection, for the first time, as suggested in the 3 Oct 1986 show.

Comments about Forcefield reference the previous playing of the track in September (the 19 Sep 1986 show).

Closing comments announce Warlock live from Donington next week.

17 Oct 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Judas Priest - The Ripper (live)
2. Metal Church - Burial at Sea
3. Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein
4. GBH - Malice in Wonderland
5. Black 'n Blue - Nasty Nasty
6. Persian Risk - Calling for You
7. Ratt - Drive Me Crazy
8. Detente - Blood I Bleed
9. Johnny Winter - Mojo Boogie
10. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
11. Y+T - Open Fire
12. David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose
13. AC/DC - She's Got Balls
14. Dio - Live Medley
15. Megadeth - Wake Up Dead
16. TT Quick - Front Burner
17. Warlock - Earthshaker Rock (live)
18. Warlock - Shout It Out (live)
19. Warlock - Vorwarts, All Right! (live)
20. Warlock - All Night (live)
21. Warlock - Love in the Danger Zone (live)
22. Warlock - Burning the Witches (live)
23. Warlock - True as Steel (live)
24. Warlock - Hellbound (live)

Notes

Warlock live from Castle Donington Monsters of Rock Festival 1986.

Date is confirmed from the closing comments of the previous show, referencing the Warlock concert.

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 10-14): Neil Bisley of Tonbridge.

24 Oct 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Waysted - Walls Fall Down
2. Saxon - Rock the Nations
3. Magnum - Red on the Highway
4. Lizzy Borden - Generation Aliens
5. W.A.S.P. - I Don't Need No Doctor
6. Flotsam and Jetsam - Desecrator
7. Rush - The Spirit of Radio
8. ZZ Top - Can't Stop Rocking
9. Jesters of Destiny - Diggin' That Grave
10. White Tiger - Bad Time Coming
11. Hawkwind - Kings of Speed
12. Original Sin - Bitches from Hell
13. Def Leppard - Rocks Off
14. Hirax - Plague
15. Saxon - Power and the Glory (live)
16. Saxon - Never Surrender (live)
17. Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed (live)
18. Saxon - Rock the Nations (live)
19. Saxon - 747 (Strangers in the Night) (live)
20. Saxon - 20,000 Feet (live)
21. Saxon - Wheels of Steel (live)
22. Saxon - Waiting for the Night (live)
23. Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law (live)

Notes

Saxon live from the Reading Festival 24 Aug 1986.

Date confirmed through mention of imminent upcoming gigs on 29 & 30 Oct.

31 Oct 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Stryper - To Hell with the Devil
2. Girlschool - Back for More
3. Slayer - Altar of Sacrifice
4. Slayer - Jesus Saves
5. Bon Jovi - Social Disease
6. Waysted - Black & Blue
7. Abattoir - Bring on the Damned
8. Frank Marino - Go Strange
9. Cinderella - Hell on Wheels
10. W.A.S.P. - Mantronic
11. Ratt - One Good Lover
12. Parker - Black Dog
13. Anthrax - Madhouse
14. Metallica - No Remorse
15. Black Sabbath - Born Again
16. Deep Purple - Anyone's Daughter
17. Rough Cutt - Rock the USA (live)
18. Rough Cutt - Kids Will Rock (live)
19. Rough Cutt - Don't Settle for Less (live)
20. Rough Cutt - Dressed to Kill (live)
21. Rough Cutt - Let 'Em Talk (live)
22. Rough Cutt - Bad Reputation (live)
23. Rough Cutt - We Like It Loud (live)
24. Rough Cutt - Double Trouble (live)
25. Rough Cutt - Piece of My Heart (live)
26. Rough Cutt - Cutt Your Heart Out (live)

Notes

Rough Cutt live at the Reading Festival 24 Aug 1986.

Date confirmed: it's Halloween.

Girlschool session coming on 14 Nov 1986.

7 Nov 1986?

This show listing is believed to be complete.

1. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
2. The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
3. Possessed - Walk to Die
4. Iron Maiden - Stranger in a Strange Land
5. Black 'n Blue - Kiss of Death
6. Metal Church - Method to Your Madness
7. Rio - When the Walls Come Down
8. Nuclear Assault - Brain Death
9. White Tiger - Love/Hate
10. W.A.S.P. - Shoot from the Hip
11. Robert Plant - Big Log
12. AC/DC - Touch Too Much
13. Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (live)
14. The Eagles - The Last Resort
15. Fleetwood Mac - I'm So Afraid (live)
16. Skagarack - Movin' in the Night (live)
17. Skagarack - I'm Alone (live)
18. Skagarack - Damned Woman (live)
19. Skagarack - Always in a Line (live)
20. Skagarack - Victim of the System (live)
21. Skagarack - Double Crossed (live)

Notes

The date isn't confirmed, but the best guess is 7 Nov 1986 to fit in between known shows. Certainly this comes after 10 Oct 1986 as Lie Back and Enjoy It has a phone call.

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 11-15): Dave Leonard from Banstead, Surrey.

Skagarack live at the Reading Festival 1986.

14 Nov 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Europe - On the Loose
2. Exciter - Scream in the Night
3. Deep Switch - Nine Inches of God!
4. Hawkwind - Ejection
5. Girlschool - Turn It Up (st)
6. Waysted - Wild Night
7. Motörhead - Ace of Spades
8. Cheap Trick - Rearview Mirror Romance
9. English Dogs - A Tomb of Travellers Past
10. Victory - Running Wild
11. Girlschool - All Day, All Night (st)
12. Gary Moore - End of the World
13. Magnum - Holy Rider
14. Chariot - Meet My Match
15. Metal Church - The Dark
16. Metallica - Disposable Heroes
17. W.A.S.P. - Jack Action
18. Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait
19. Girlschool - Death on Two Legs (st)
20. Jesters of Destiny - Crimson Umbrella
21. Original Sin - The Curse
22. Billy Squier - The Lady with a Tenor Sax
23. Girlschool - Play with Fire (st)
24. Pendragon - Leviathan (live)

Notes

Session: Girlschool (new).

Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks : Andy Page of Swansea.

Date: 14 Nov 1986, as per closing comments of the 31 Oct 1986 show and confirmed by the news: US imposing sanctions on Syria.

The Gary Moore track has been used often as a backing track, especially over the closing comments.

First three tracks identified from a recording other than mine. Thanks to the Friday Rock Show Wiki.

21 Nov 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Mass - Eternal Warrior
2. Nuclear Assault - Betrayal
3. Iron Maiden - That Girl
4. Iron Maiden - Juanita
5. Vow Wow - Doncha Wanna Come (Hanger 15) (live)
6. Vow Wow - Too Late to Turn Back (live)
7. The Accüsed - Buried Alive
8. Q5 - Steel the Light
9. Bad Company - Burning Up
10. Jack Starr's Burning Starr - Run for Your Life
11. Gary Moore - Over the Hills and Far Away
12. Bon Jovi - Runaway
13. Angel Dust - Gambler
14. The Outlaws - Hurry Sundown (live)
15. The Outlaws - Hollywood Paradise (live)
16. The Outlaws - You are the Show (live)
17. The Outlaws - Never Look Back (live)
18. The Outlaws - The Outlaw (live)
19. The Outlaws - Freeborn Man (live)
20. The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (live)
21. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (live)

Notes

The Outlaws live at the Reading Festival 1986

Tommy mentions at the outset that this is the 8th birthday programme.

Date confirmed from the news after the show. Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand met about nuclear disarmament.

28 Nov 1986

This show listing is a work in progress.

1. W.A.S.P. - (live)
2. Iron Maiden - Deja Vu
3. Brian May & Friends - Star Fleet
4. Metal Church - Watch the Children Pray
5. Hexx - The Victim
6. Deep Switch - The Dark Angel
7. Man - Ain't Their Fight
8. Rio - High School Rock
9. Alice Cooper - Give It Up
10. Gary Moore - Over the Fields and Far Away
11. Van Halen - House of Pain
12. Blood Money - Metalyzed
13. Charger - Rock

Notes

Not my recording. Thanks to the Friday Rock Show Wiki.

W.A.S.P. live at the Hammersmith Odeon.

5 Dec 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Hawkwind - Dust of Time (live)
2. Hawkwind - Master of the Universe (live)
3. Hawkwind - Dreaming City (live)
4. Obsession - Losing My Mind
5. Tension - Reach for Your Sword
6. Crisis - Spirits (st)
7. Status Quo - Don't Stop Me Now
8. Parker - Black Dog
9. Messiah Prophet - Heavy Metal Thunder
10. Krokus - Hot Shot City (live)
11. Queen - Hammer to Fall (live)
12. Crisis - Casablanca (st)
13. Castle Blak - Another Dark Carnival
14. Magnum - The Spirit
15. W.A.S.P. - Wild Child
16. Saxon - Waiting for the Night
17. Crisis - Suicide (st)
18. Kuni - Telepathy
19. Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
20. Bad Brains - I Against I
21. Killer Dwarfs - Stand Tall
22. Nuclear Assault - Cold Steel
23. Crisis - Battlefield (st)
24. Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Notes

Session: Crisis.

Lie Back and Enjoy It: Flossie from Skipton.

Date confirmed. Tommy announces Ozzy Osbourne live from Donington next week (confirmed as 12 Dec 1986).

The first three tracks aren't from my recording. Thanks to the Friday Rock Show Wiki.

12 Dec 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Saint - Through You I'm Winning
2. Warfare - You Really Got Me
3. Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Fury
4. Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (live)
5. Uriah Heep - Love Machine (live)
6. Dirty Looks - Get Off
7. Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
8. Mass - Straight to Hell
9. Possessed - Restless Dead
10. Marillion - He Knows You Know
11. Jesters of Destiny - Incubus / Attack of the Jesters
12. Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution (live)
13. Ozzy Osbourne - Never Know Why (live)
14. Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley (live)
15. Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark (live)
16. Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Know (live)
17. Ozzy Osbourne - Killer of Giants (live)
18. Ozzy Osbourne - Thank God for the Bomb (live)
19. Ozzy Osbourne - Iron Man (live)
20. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (live)
21. Ozzy Osbourne - Paranoid (live)
22. Queen - Get Down, Make Love
23. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
24. Agent Steel - Mad Locust Rising
25. The Who - Summertime Blues (live)

Notes

Ozzy Osbourne live at Donington 1986.

Date confirmed. News after the show references a Soviet arliner crashing in East Berlin, which happened on 12 Dec 1986.

19 Dec 1986

This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the second hour.

1. Brighton Rock - Young, Wild and Free
2. Ted Nugent - Snakeskin Cowboys
3. Madison - Can't Take It Any More
4. Diamond Rexx - All I Need
5. Girlschool - Death on Two Legs (st)
6. Castle Blak - Glory Hole
7. The Outlaws - Devil's Road
8. Billy Squier - Break the Silence
9. Cryptic Slaughter - Low Life
10. Pantera - Daughters of the Queen
11. Girlschool - Turn It Up (st)
12. Vow Wow - Love Walks
13. Bon Jovi - Without Love
14. Magnum - Back to Earth

Notes

Opening comments reference this as the 'last rocking night before Christmas', so 19 Dec 1986.

Session: Girlschool (repeat).

Intro mentions tracks by Raw Power, Hexx, Krokus, Detente, Led Zeppelin, Deep Switch and Manowar.

26 Dec 1986

This show listing is complete.

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
3. AC/DC - High Voltage (st)
4. AC/DC - Live Wire (st)
5. AC/DC - Can I Sit Next to You Girl (st)
6. AC/DC - Little Lover (st)
7. Magnum - Kingdom of Madness
8. Europe - The Final Countdown
9. Marillion - Forgotten Sons (live)
10. Marillion - He Knows You Know (live)
11. Metal Church - Burial at Sea
12. Thin Lizzy - Emerald (st)
13. Thin Lizzy - Warrior (st)
14. Thin Lizzy - The Cowboy Song (st)
15. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (st)
16. Motörhead - Locomotive
17. Bon Jovi - Let It Rock
18. Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned (live)
19. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (live)
20. Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue (live)
21. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (live)

Notes

Sessions: AC/DC (from 3 Jun 1976) and Thin Lizzy (recorded 12 Feb 1976).

Live: Marillion (at Reading 1983, originally broadcast 18 Nov 1983) and Iron Maiden (at Reading 1982).

Date confirmed: it's Boxing Day.