Joe Cocker’s 1971 concert film and documentary, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, recently premiered on YouTube.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen was filmed during Cocker’s 1970 U.S. tour of the same name. The two-hour movie combines performance footage with candid scenes of Joe and the members of his expansive band in tour buses and vans, on planes, and backstage.

Cocker was accompanied by a rock-and-soul ensemble that included guitarist/piano player/musical director Leon Russell, keyboardist Chris Stainton, guitarist Don Preston, bassist Carl Radle, drummers Jim Gordon and Jim Keltner, sax players Jim Horn and Bobby Keys, trumpet player Jim Price, and backing singers Rita Coolidge and Claudia Lennear.

The film features performances of Russell’s “Delta Lady,” The Box Tops’ “The Letter,” Traffic’s “Feelin’ Alright,” The Beatles’ “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” and many more.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen premiered in March 1971, while a companion live album was released in August 1970.

Source: RTT Music News