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Here are playlists that detail what played during editions of Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show in 1987. Most are taken from cassettes that I recorded at the time and still have today. Everything in italic is taken from other sources. |
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2 Jan 9 Jan 16 Jan 23 Jan 30 Jan |
incomplete missing incomplete complete complete |
6 Feb 13 Feb 20 Feb 27 Feb |
complete incomplete missing complete |
6 Mar 13 Mar 20 Mar 27 Mar |
complete complete complete complete |
| April | May | June | |||
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3 Apr 10 Apr 17 Apr 24 Apr |
complete incomplete missing missing |
1 May 8 May 15 May 22 May 29 May |
complete missing missing complete complete |
5 Jun 12 Jun 19 Jun 26 Jun |
complete complete complete complete |
| July | August | September | |||
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3 Jul 10 Jul 17 Jul 24 Jul 31 Jul |
missing incomplete missing complete complete |
7 Aug 14 Aug 21 Aug 28 Aug |
complete complete complete complete |
4 Sep 11 Sep 18 Sep 25 Sep |
incomplete complete complete complete |
| October | November | December | |||
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2 Oct 9 Oct 16 Oct 23 Oct 30 Oct |
incomplete incomplete incomplete complete missing |
6 Nov 13 Nov 20 Nov 27 Nov |
complete complete complete complete |
4 Dec 11 Dec 18 Dec 25 Dec |
complete complete complete incomplete |
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2 Jan 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the beginning and middle.
NotesNot my recording. Thanks to the Friday Rock Show Wiki. |
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16 Jan 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the end.
NotesShow listing is almost complete but my recording cuts out before the end of the Rush track. Necrophagia are also mentioned so may be the closeout track. Session: Crisis (repeat). Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 17-19) from Piet Corbijn of The Netherlands. Date very likely. Comments identify this as certainly being before 15 Feb 1987 because of an upcoming gig and all other dates in range are confirmed for other shows. Stereo Sequence trailers for the first part of the Richard Branson/Virgin story suggest that this is a week before the 23 Jan 1987 show. |
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23 Jan 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesMotörhead live at Donington Monsters of Rock 16 Aug 1986. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 19-22) from Chris Owen in Cwmbran. Date confirmed. Vow Wow session is next week (30 Jan 1987). Also news suggests that the BT national strike is to go ahead and that began on 26 Jan 1987. |
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30 Jan 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Vow Wow (new). Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-16) from Robert McKitterick of Loughgall in Co Armagh. Date confirmed from the news. Terry Waite hasn't been seen since he left his hotel 10 days ago. He was kidnapped on 20 Jan 1987. |
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6 Feb 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Siege (new). Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-16) from David Howard of Southport. Comments suggest a Bad Company session next week. Date confirmed. NGA stops its picketing of the News International plant at Wapping after SOGAT had done so. The Wapping strike ended on 5 Feb 1987 (presumably SOGAT). Just in case, other news included police shooting two men at Sir John Soane's museum who were attempting to steal Hogarth's A Rake's Progress to finance a drug deal (Denis Bergin died), five of the six Secret Society shows seized from BBC have been returned to offices in Glasgow and the BT strike keeps on for a second week. |
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13 Feb 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the first half hour.
NotesThere's a wedding proposal after the Civilised Society? track. Session: Bad Company (new). Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 10-13) from Cooper of Berkhamsted. Date confirmed. Closing comments indicate that the Crimson Glory, Metal Church and Anthrax gig at the Hammersmith Odeon and being recorded for future broadcast (077) is on the upcoming Sunday. That's 15 Feb 1987. It's also suggested from the closing comments of the 6 Feb 1987 show. |
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27 Feb 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Sabbat (new). Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-17) from Bill Matthews of Norwich. Tommy mentions that Vow Wow are on stage at the Newcastle Mayfair being recorded by the BBC. That was 27 Feb 1987. |
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6 Mar 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Vow Wow (repeat from 30 Jan 1987). Interview: Chris Tetley interviews Joey de Maio of Manowar. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 11-14) from Charles Morgan of Tiverton. Date confirmed through live details. Throughout the show, Tommy mentions that Vow Wow are on stage at the London Marquee during broadcast and will be the next night too. Also on stage are Flotsam and Jetsam and Megadeth, being recorded for broadcast in late April. Crimson Glory, Metal Church and Anthrax are recorded already and will be broadcast in early April (actually 3 Apr 1987). Tommy also mentions that next week Magnum will be live at the Hammersmith Odeon and FRS will broadcast live. That's 13 Mar 1987. |
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13 Mar 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesMagnum live (really live) at the Hammersmith Odeon. It kicked in live at 10.00pm so missed four songs: Back to Earth, Vigilante, All England's Eyes and On a Storyteller's Night. Date confirmed from Magnum tour dates and from the news after the show which details the results of the Truro by-election, which was held on Mar 1987. Tommy notes that David Coverdale will be in the studio in a couple of weeks time. |
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20 Mar 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Siege (repeat). Date confirmed, as Tommy mentions that David Coverdale will be on the show the following week. |
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27 Mar 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDate confirmed: news after the show announces Mrs. Thatcher's trip to Moscow. Interviews: David Coverdale in the studio and Ozzy Osbourne on the phone. Session: Bad Company (repeat, first broadcast on 13 Feb 1987). Producer Tony Wilson is on holiday. |
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3 Apr 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesLive: Crimson Glory, Metal Church and Anthrax from the Hammersmith Odeon 15 Feb 1987. Date confirmed: news after the show reports on the sale of the Duchess of Windsor's jewellery by Sotheby's on 2 Apr 1987. Tommy announces that Flotsam and Jetsam and Megadeth will be broadcast on 24 Apr 1987. |
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10 Apr 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the end.
NotesSession: Monochrome Men (first airing). Date confirmed by mentions of Anthrax live last Friday and a recent interview with David Coverdale. Those were the 3 Apr 1987 and 27 Mar 1987 shows respectively. Intro mentions tracks by Foreplay, Bitch, Slayer, Onslaught, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Rush. Lie Back and Enjoy It is about to start at the gap. The full track listing is available at the Friday Rock Show Wiki. |
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24 Apr 1987This show listing is still to come. It includes live concerts by Flotsam and Jetsam and Megadeth. |
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1 May 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Blood Money (new). Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 11-14) from Nigel Lavender in Ramsey St. Mary's, Cambridgeshire. One dedication has a birthday coming up on 10 May. Date is likely to be 1 May 1987 as comments talk about the live broadcast the previous week preventing a dedication being read out. Presumably that's the Megadeth show with Flotsam and Jetsam on 24 Apr 1987. |
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8 May 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesInterview: Ozzy Osbourne. Introduction lists tracks by Rankelson, TNT, Rock Goddess, The Godz, Stan Bush, Fast Kutz, Slave Raider, Omen, Blood Money, Poison and two by Mötley Crüe. However, only Rankelson, Fast Kutz and Mötley Crüe are played. Presumably Tommy was having too much fun with Ozzy to play what he had slated. No confirmed date but it closely predates 12 Jun 1987. I was guessing 5 Jun 1987 but if that show included a Shy session, then it has to be 29 May 1987. The Friday Rock Show Wiki, however, believes it's 8 May 1987 and I can't disprove that. |
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22 May 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSessions: Statetrooper (repeat from 1986) and Monochrome Men (repeat from 1987). Date confirmed as 22 May 1987 through comments about IQ tour dates. The coming Sunday is 24 May. Comments reference Agent Steel being recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 20 Jun. Nuclear Assault, Onslaught and Atomkraft are also on the bill. Tommy advises that Fish will be on the programme in a few weeks time. |
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5 Jun 1987?This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Shy (first run of a new one unrelated to a previous session from 1982). Lie Back and Enjoy It: Ian Ritson from Dumfries. A competition is announced to design a Friday Rock Show patch. The winner would be decided on 26 Jun 1987. Date isn't confirmed. Comments about Donington upcoming on 22 Aug date this to 1987. Other comments suggest after 18 May and before 26 Jun. I was guessing at late May but the Friday Rock Show Wiki dates the Shy session to this date. |
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12 Jun 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Blood Money (repeat from 1 May 1987). Date confirmed through mention of Jasper Carrott's election show the previous night, referring to the UK general election on 11 Jun 1987. Commentary about the Ozzy Osbourne long interview show, indicating that it predates this show. Suggestion of an equivalent with Dio coming soon. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-17) from Matty Pringle of Morpeth. Tommy announces that Fish will be on the show next week |
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19 Jun 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesInterview: Fish and Mark Kelly from Marillion. Date confirmed from the previous week's show. |
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26 Jun 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Fast Kutz (new). Comments indicate this is this is one week after the Fish interview (083) so 26 Jun 1987. The competition is won for the new Friday Rock Show patch artwork that was initiated in May. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-16) from 14 year old Jamie Weston of Lowestoft. |
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10 Jul 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing 40 minutes in the middle.
NotesSession: Voodoo Child (repeat). Tommy got birthday cards. His birthday was 11 Jul. Comments suggest that this is before 15 Jul. Intro also mentions tracks by Dio (the new single, so I Could Have Been a Dreamer), Sammy Hagar, Twisted Sister, Mötley Crüe and Thin Lizzy. |
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24 Jul 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDef Leppard special last week. Date confirmed as Tommy advises that next week's show will be hosted by Dante Bonutto (which is confirmed as 31 Jul 1987). |
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31 Jul 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesGuest host: Dante Bonutto. |
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7 Aug 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDate confirmed by Tommy thanking Dante Bonutto for standing in the previous week (the 31 Jul 1987 show). If needed, news included a sharp fall in share prices in reaction to the 1% increase in lending rates; a further bank, Standard Chartered, has pulled out of South Africa, after Barclays and CitiCorp; and, in Geneva, US and Russia can't reach agreement on German missiles. Session: Shy, recorded on 22 May 1987. |
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14 Aug 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession: Idol Rich (debut session). Date confirmed. Tommy advises that Donington is a week and a day away and that WASP are playing. This is the Monsters of Rock Festival on 22 Aug 1987. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 16-19) from Chris Ball of Hornchurch. |
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21 Aug 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDate confirmed. Tommy advises that it's the eve of Donington. This is the Monsters of Rock Festival on 22 Aug 1987. Interview: Ronnie James Dio. The last six tracks are a sweep of bands playing Monsters of Rock. |
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28 Aug 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesThe opening notes highlight that the Reading Festival was in progress as the show aired. Many tracks played were from bands playing there this year, which confirms that we're in 1987. As Reading was 28-30 Aug 1987, this must be 28 Aug 1987. Session: Voyager UK. |
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4 Sep 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the beginning and odd tracks in and amongst.
NotesNot my recording. Thanks to Iain Kennedy. The gaps represent edits. Some of them certainly hide unrecorded tracks but that's not a given for all of them. Session by Fast Kutz. Tommy mentions that the BBC recorded a bunch of bands at Reading, which was the previous weekend if this show, as expected, is 4 Sep 1987. It certainly doesn't fit anywhere else. Update (10 Oct 2025). The first four tracks are the beginning of the 2nd October, 1987 show, without Tommy's introduction. The second Tilt track is from the 4th September, 1987 show. The tracks from John Waite to Savatage are from the 2nd October, 1987 show without Blinder's Shout representing the gap. The Def Leppard track is the final one in that show. Also cut out were Atomkraft and Onslaught live sets and Marillion's Heart of Lothian. The remaining tracks are the end of the 4th September, 1987 show, with the gap not including another track but one being skipped before the final one from Savatage, Primal Scream's Imperial. Time isn't on the recording but is back identified by Tommy after Sorrow. |
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11 Sep 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession from Wild! (first airing). Date confirmed. The news mentions the Pope's mass in Miami being interrupted by thunderstorms, which was 11 Sep 1987. News that permission was rescinded to record Bon Jovi at Donington. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-17) from Tommy Lello from Welshpool. |
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18 Sep 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesCinderella and Anthrax recorded live at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington on 22 Aug 1987. Tommy mentions that they won't be broadcasting either WASP or Bon Jovi from Donington. They had technical difficulties with the WASP set and Bon Jovi rescinded their approval to record. News after the show mentions the end of the Liberal Assembly in Harrogate. Day two was 15 Sep 1987, so this show presumably dates to 18 Sep 1987. Tommy announces that the 6 Nov 1987 show will be broadcast live from the BBC Radio 1 birthday show in Prestatyn with Mammoth live. |
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25 Sep 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesSession by Idol Rich (repeat from 14 Aug 1987). News after the show mentions the death of Emlyn Williams, who died on 25 Sep 1987. |
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2 Oct 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the end.
NotesOnslaught live from the Hammersmith Odeon. That concert also featured Agent Steel and Nuclear Assault, whose sets Tommy says will be broadcast on 13 Nov 2017. Date confirmed to 2 Oct 1987 because I recorded the beginning of the 16 Oct 1987 show over it, so it predates that, and this is the only possible date not taken by other shows I recorded. I can't guarantee the Marillion and Def Leppard tracks, as I wiped over them with the next show, but I did write them on the cassette card so they're likely. |
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9 Oct 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the beginning.
NotesDate confirmed by Tommy mentioning that he saw Guns n' Roses the night before at the Hammersmith Odeon. That was 8 Oct 1987, so this must be 9 Oct 1987. |
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16 Oct 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the end.
NotesDate confirmed by the presence of a teaser for the Stereo Sequence the next day that includes part 4 of Peeling Back the Years. That aired on 17 Oct 1987, so this show must be 16 Oct 1987. This is backed up by the airing of the new singles by Rush (Time Stand Still) and WASP (the live version of I Don't Need No Doctor), which were both released on 19 Oct 1987. The rest of the show includes a repeat broadcast of 45 minutes of WASP live, recorded the previous year at the Hammersmith Odeon. That would start around 11.10pm. The intro also mentions that Tommy will be airing a song by Mammoth, 'the biggest band in the world,' which will be their first radio play anywhere in the world. There will also be tracks by Virus and Jethro Tull. |
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23 Oct 1987This show listing is believed to be complete.
NotesRepeat session by Voyager UK (first aired on 28 Aug 1987). News after the show include Lester Piggott being jailed for three years, dating this to 23 Oct 1987. Tommy announces that he'll be playing live recordings of bands from Reading the following week. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-15) from Rick Cruncher of Hook. |
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6 Nov 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDate confirmed by many shows around it as it was recorded live from Pontins Holiday Camp in Prestatyn during the Radio 1 Weekender that celebrated 20 years of BBC Radio 1. Tommy mentions that this is the first time he'd done this in the nine years of the show. Interviews with Zodiac Mindwarp, Nicky Moore and John McCoy (Mammoth) and Genki Hitomi, Kyoji Yamamoto and Neil Murray (Vow Wow) Mammoth live on site. |
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13 Nov 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDate confirmed by Tommy's advance notice on the 2 Oct 1987 show. Live: Nuclear Assault and Agent Steel from the Hammersmith Odeon. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-17) from Neil Mainstone of Rhondda, Glamorgan. |
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20 Nov 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesNews after the show details the King's Cross fire 'on Wednesday'. That was Wed 18 Nov 1987, so dating this show to 20 Nov 1987. Tommy mentions on two separate occasions that Dio's set from Donington will be on the show next week. He also mentions that the Metallica set will be broadcast on 18th Dec 1987 if the band's management OK it. |
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27 Nov 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDio live from the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington on 22 Aug 1987. News after the show includes Irish terrorist Dessie O'Hare in hospital after a gun battle and two French hostages released in Beirut, both of which date the show to 27 Nov 1987, as does the Children in Need campaign. All this backs up Tommy's comments on the 20 Nov 1987 show that the Dio set would be broadcast 'next week'. |
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4 Dec 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesNews after the show is tougher to date than usual, especially as I don't have all of it, but the deal struck between postal union leaders and the Post Office to avert a strike before Christmas and the meeting between Mrs. Thatcher and the French and Irish prime ministers about terrorism both suggest that this was 4 Dec 1987. Also covered was John Burt asking the attorney general to drop legal action against the BBC about a documentary on the secret services. The show is entirely taken up by Reading Rocks Part 2: four more bands from the Reading Festival 'last August' (though this was actually the 1987 event). All four bands appeared on the Sunday night, 30 Aug 1987. Tommy mentions that the next week's show will feature a session by Wild! |
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11 Dec 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesDate confirmed by Tommy mentioning Christmas on Earth in Leeds 'this Sunday, 13th December'. Repeat session by Wild! (recorded 'last' July and broadcast 'last' August or, later, 'September - I can't remember'). The first broadcast was 11 Sep 1987. Lie Back and Enjoy It (tracks 13-16) from Gregory Moffatt of Limavady, Northern Ireland. |
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18 Dec 1987This show listing is complete.
NotesInterview with Chris Tetley starting after track 8 and ending before track 11. Tommy mentions that Tigertailz will be on the London Astoria stage 'next Wednesday' at the Metal Hammer Christmas Party. That was 23 Dec 1987, dating this show to 18 Dec 1987. |
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25 Dec 1987This show listing is not complete, as it's missing the beginning and end.
NotesNot my recording. Thanks to the Friday Rock Show Wiki. |
Last update: 10th October, 2025