Mad dogs and englishmen

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His performance at Woodstock in August 1969, which propelled him into the spotlight, meant Joe Cocker knew the album that followed had to live up to it. Bingo! with this Mad Dogs & Englishmen made alongside songwriter and pianist Leon Russell the following year. The album, a furious live set brimming with soul, recorded at New York’s Fillmore East, was accompanied by a documentary film. The project was all the more monumental because dozens of musicians, each more accomplished than the last, backed the British bluesman-soulman on his reinterpretations of classics by the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, etc. Blues, rhythm’n’blues, gospel and blue-eyed soul ooze from this truly powerful live document.