Called The Chosen Few, the full track listing is:

1. Diamonds And Rust – chosen by Joe Elliott
   2. Dissident Aggressor  - chosen by Steve Vai and Geoff Tate (Queensryche)
   3. Exciter  - chosen by Accept
   4. Beyond The Realms Of Death  - chosen by Lars Ulrich
   5. Delivering The Goods  - chosen by Kerry King
   6. The Green Manalishi (With The Two-Pronged Crown)  - chosen by David Coverdale and Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God)
   7. The Ripper  - chosen by Ozzy Osbourne
   8. Victim Of Changes  - chosen by James Hetfield (Metallica)
   9. Breaking The Law – chosen by Lemmy
   10. Rapid Fire  - chosen by Vinnie Paul (Hellyeah)
   11. Grinder – chosen by Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society)
   12. Living After Midnight – chosen by Alice Cooper and Geezer Butler
   13. Screaming For Vengeance – chosen by Slash
   14. You’ve Got Another Thing Coming – chosen by Klaus Meine and Corey Taylor
   15. The Sentinel – chosen by Chris Jericho (Fozzy)
   16. Turbo Lover  - chosen by Jonathan Davis (Korn)
   17. Painkiller – chosen by Joe Satriani

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Titled Thin Lizzy: Bad Reputation, the hour-long film goes out at 9pm GMT. It includes contributions from Scott Gorham, Brian Downey, Eric Bell, Brian Robertson, Midge Ure, Tony Visconti, Joe Elliott and Bob Geldof.

The band are currently going through recordings from their 2009 world tour, and might even include new songs.

Blabbermouth report that vocalist Joe Elliott told Artisan News Service: “In this day in age, you record every show onto a hard drive. So we’ve got the entire tour backed up onto three or four hard drives. So we have the unenviable task of listening to probably 50 versions of every song we’ve ever played.

“We’ve got our sound guy from the studio, who’s a fantastic engineer and a great co-producer, he’s actually listening through to all the versions of the songs and kind of rating them on a 1-10 level of performance and excitement, if you like.”

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Elliott was at the 12^th annual Tartan Clef Awards in Glasgow, sponsored by 96.3 Rock Radio, where he picked up the Services To Rock Award on behalf of Def Leppard. And he got the chance to perform SAHB classics Boston Tea Party and Anthem with bassist Chris Glen, drummer Ted McKenna and keyboard player Hugh McKenna, plus guitarist Billy Rankin.

Elliott has long said that SAHB were one of the biggest influences on his music.

The event itself raised over £100,000 for the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy charity.

The albums in question are:

Jailbreak

Johnny The Fox

Live And Dangerous

Each has been remixed and remastered by Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham, together with Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott. They’ll be double discs, containing the original album on one CD, a second CD with rare bonus tracks. Live And Dangerous will also have a DVD.

Here are the full details:

Jailbreak

Disc one

1. Jailbreak
2. Angel From The Coast
3. Running Back
4. Romeo And The Lonely Girl
5. Warriors
6. The Boys Are Back In Town
7. Fight Or Fall
8. Cowboy Song
9. Emerald

Disc Two

1. Jailbreak (Re-mixed Version)
2. The Boys Are Back In Town (Re-mixed Version)
3. Jailbreak (BBC Session 12/02/1976)
4. Emerald (BBC Session 12/02/1976)
5. Cowboy song (BBC Session 12/02/1976)
6. The Warrior (BBC Session 12/02/1976)
7. Fight Or Fall (Extended Version – Rough Mix)
8. Blues Boy (Unreleased Studio Track)
9. Derby Blues (Early Version – The Cowboy Song)

Johnny The Fox

Disc One

1. Johnny
2. Rocky
3. Borderline
4. Don’t Believe A Word
5. Fools Gold
6. Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed
7. Old Flame
8. Massacre
9. Sweet Marie
10.  Boogie-Woogie Dance

Disc Two

1. Don’t Believe A Word (Re-Mixed Version)
2. Borderline (Re-Mixed Version)
3. Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed (Re-Mixed Version)
4. Don’t Believe A Word (BBC Sessions 11/10/1976)
5. Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed (BBC Sessions 11/10/1976)
6. Fools Gold (BBC Sessions 11/10/1976)
7. Johnny (BBC Sessions 11/10/1976)
8. Fools Gold (Instrumental Run Through)
9. Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed (Instrumental Run Through/Extended)
10.  Rocky (Instrumental Run Through)
11.  Massacre (Instrumental Take With Lynott Directions To Band)
12.  Scott’s Tune (Unreleased Scott Gorham Composition)
13.  Don’t Believe A Word (Studio Outake- Different Lyrics)

Live And Dangerous

Disc One

1. Jailbreak
2. Emerald
3. Southbound
4. Rosalie – Cowgirls Song
5. Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In A Spotlight)
6. Massacre
7. Still In Love With You
8. Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed

Disc Two

1. Cowboy Song
2. The Boys Are Back In Town
3. Don’t Believe A Word
4. Warriors
5. Are You Ready
6. Suicide
7. Sha La La
8. Baby Drives Me Crazy
9. The Rocker

Bonus Tracks

1.  Opium Trail (Wild One-L & D Outake)
2.  Bad Reputation (Wild One-L & D Outake)

Disc Three DVD

1. Introduction/Rosalie
2. The Boys Are Back In Town
3. Emerald
4. Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In A Spotlight)
5. Massacre
6. Call On Me
7. Don’t Believe A Word
8. Are You Ready
9. Sha La La
10.  Baby Drives Me Crazy
11.  Finale/Me And The Boys

The band will be going on  a massive UK tour early in 2011.

Find out more at http://www.thinlizzy.org/

It’s being brewed and bottled by The Porterhouse, and will be available in their bars.

Says Elliott: “Over the years I’ve noticed a lot of musicians putting their names to a variety of wines etc which, as nice as a glass of red or white is, well, it’s not very rock and roll is it?!

“Beer or lager seem to be the drink of choice at nearly every gig I’ve ever played or attended so for me it’s a much cooler thing to do and having seen how The Porterhouse put quality over quantity.”

Elliott’s beer is described as “a pilsner style” that has “a deep, rich malt character, with generous hop bitterness”.

The launch takes place on Wednesday, 15 September at The Porterhouse North Rock Garden in Glasnevin.

Having done a six-week stint under the title of My ReGeneration, the Def Leppard frontman now as another 13 weeks, under the banner of The Joe Elliott Show. The hour-long programme will be broadcast every Saturday at 7pm, and repeated the following Thursday at 10pm.

The incident occurred at approximately 8.10pm on Sunday, July 25.

After a set by the Down’N'Outz, Elliott invited Hunter on stage to perform a selection of Mott The Hoople classics.

Unfortunately, Hunter only managed two songs before the sound mysteriously cut out…

The Sun newspaper carried the following sensationalist report this past Saturday:

‘Ageing rockers started a mass brawl when they were told to stop playing early.

‘Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott, 50, and rock legend Ian Hunter, 71, charged roadies, wielding their guitars ‘like axes’ after power to their amps was cut off.

‘The pair then kicked off a 30-man punch-up, screaming: “Let’s have it, you bastards!”

‘The battle in London’s Victoria Park started when the pair’s supergroup Down’N'Outz were only allowed two songs because Emerson, Lake And Palmer were due on stage.

‘A roadie said: “It was all in the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll.”‘

Classic Rock’s Scott Rowley, who witnessed the scuffle first-hand, clarifies: “Actually, there were only 15 or 20 people fighting.”

For the full, unexpurgated story, make sure you pick up the next issue of Classic Rock (on sale August 18).

Words: Malcolm Dome

For heritage bands, festivals are all about being given the chance to reinforce your appeal to older audiences, and to pick up young fans. How do you that? By playing the classic songs. As almost every band of that ilk over these two days appreciates. And then there’s Magnum.

Quite why this superb British band choose to open their set with three comparatively new songs defies belief. Maybe, they want to prove they’re not a nostalgia act? OK, but do that on your own tour. Not here. The Prog stage is packed, and if the band had delivered the right set, the benefits would have been enormous. Get the old-school Magnum devotees going, and the young ones will pick up on the atmosphere. As it is, Magnum blow it – big time. Introducing some classics later on doesn’t help. The damage has been done.

Out on the Metal Hammer stage, things are so much more positive as Clutch deliver a compulsive psychedelic blues set. This is one of the best bands in the world – and they hold the audience spellbound.

Meantime – it’s a whirl at the moment – Joe Bonamassa proves on the main stage that he’s not just a gifted guitarist, but has the voice and the performance potential to be more than just another fretboard fretter.

But wait, what is this on the Prog stage? Ah, it’s Uriah Heep, playing the whole of their 1972 album Demons And Wizards, and doing it with such panache and style, it’s almost as if it’s only just been written. The introduction of Micky Moody on slide guitar is an inspiration, and the crowd is so vast, it’s overspilling into the Helter Skelter area.

Not to be outdone, Opeth have the crowd backed up on the Metal Hammer stage, as they prove they’re among the prog metal giants. This is a powerful, progressively-inclined set from a band at the top of their game.

But you can’t actually stand still for even a moment, because next on the Prog stage are Argent. The original line-up together for the first time in 37 years. It’s slightly amusing to hear that Rod Argent is just a little louder than everyone else. But the band do bear his name, and while due respect is paid to Russ Ballard, you know Rod is at the epicentre. But the set is spectacular – starting with It’s Only Money Parts I And 2, taking in Hold Your Head Up and God Gave Rock ‘N’ Roll To You… even The Zombies’ She’s Not There and Rainbow’s hit Since You’ve Been Gone, written by Ballard. Watch out for a full tour – it’s worth the effort.

Joe Elliott is leading his troops – well,  the Quireboys – through a Down ‘N’ Outz set of Mott The Hoople related covers on the main stage. It’s entertaining, but the real star is a three-year-old girl in the crowd who shows the sort of moves that could make her a star in 15 years. Everyone, it seems, is trying to video and photograph her. It sums up this festival that 40-somethings on stage are playing songs almost older than themselves and getting a three-year-old into the music. Priceless. The generation barrier is hereby abolished. But it’s when Ian Hunter walks on that everything takes off. The man’s a rock star. And the way he leads with an acoustic guitar on Once Bitten, Twice Shy is a lesson.

Headlining the Metal Hammer stage, Down are energetic and dynamic, to the point of being close to stealing the whole festival. It’s just stunning. Almost matched, albeit in a rather more low key fashion, by Marillion on the Prog stage. With Fish oddly watching in the crowd, they are mesmerising by accentuating the music not the personalities.

And so to ELP. The headliners on the main stage. Back together for the first time in nearly a decade-and-a-half. This is the band, more than any other, who made most of the world hate prog – and made all of us who love the music so dedicated to them. Bombastic? Yes. Self-indulgent? Absolutely. Losing the musical plot? Totally. But would we have them any other way? No. Tonight, they show once again why prog is despised by the ignorant majority and loved by the cognoscenti. Whether we seem them again is irrelevant. We’ve got to see them one last time.

For no other reason – and there are plenty of others – High Voltage is a triumph. But you know what? Overall, it’s been the best festival this year, because it was bold and brave enough to bring back ELP,  to back prog and to give us a bill that was all killer, no filler. Roll on 2011.

Frontman Joe Elliott told billboard.com: “We’ve got tentative plans to do a four- or five-track EP of new songs as part of it…”Vivian [Campbell, guitar) has been in the band 17 years, so I think he deserves a shot at being on a live record”.

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