Dr. Feelgood
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Dr Feelgood: Down By The Jetty
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, July 1975
ROCK'N'ROLL LOUD, dirty, mean, raw, vicious rock'n'roll. That's what Dr Feelgood are all about and they never make any pretensions to the contrary. ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages audio, 26 February 1975
The men from Canvey Island talk about how they got together, getting into the London pub-rock scene, their aggressive performances and recording Down by the Jetty.
File format: mp3; file size: 71.8mb, interview length: 1h 18' 25" sound quality: ***
Dr. Feelgood's Lee Brilleaux (1981)
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 8 February 1981
The Feelgoods' frontman on how the band has developed in the studio, choosing producers, and the respective virtues of Mike Vernon and Richard Gottehrer.
File format: mp3; file size: 8.7mb, interview length: 09' 31" sound quality: ****
Interview by Andy Gill, Rock's Backpages audio, 1990
From the Groundhogs to the Stone Roses: the music-industry legend narrates his journey from '60s Denmark Street to '90s Madchester via United Artists Records; talks about Hawkwind and Dr. Feelgood, signing the Stranglers and Buzzcocks, Radar Records and F-Beat, Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello, Demon Records and the CD/catalogue revolution; Silvertone Records and the Stone Roses... and the many changes in the music business over the years.
File format: mp3; file size: 60.7mb, interview length: 1h 03' 12" sound quality: ***
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Doctor Feelgood: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 29 June 1974
IT'S NOT often that the jaded, booze-soaked crowd that throng Dingwalls dancehall bring an almost unknown band back for three encores. ...
Doctor Feelgood: Rocking at the Canvey Island Oil Refinery Claimants Union Ball
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 31 August 1974
NICK KENT probes the aesthetics of DOCTOR FEELGOOD's chisel-toe chic. ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 September 1974
FORGET THE Yardbirds, forget J. Geils. Last Thursday, Dingwalls had the real demolition men in. Name of Dr. Feelgood; they're what rhythm and blues is ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 7 December 1974
BACK IN JUNE I made one of my regular midnight creeps to Dingwalls in Camden Town with the main purpose of getting drunk. ...
Hawkwind and Dr Feelgood On Tour
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974
THE START OF a tour is never really any great cause for rejoicing. It's the end of a tour that is usually all fun and ...
Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo, Chilli Willi: Eat Your Heart Out, Arthur Howes
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 January 1975
Which is a slick way of saying The Package Tour She Lives She Breathes She Is Reborn. You remember the Package Tour, eh kids? It ...
Dr. Feelgood: Down By The Jetty (United Artists)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 25 January 1975
BOYS, BOYS now what did I tell you about being "too ethnic"? ...
Money Doesn't Talk — it Mutters out of the Side of its Mouth
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 1 March 1975
THE NAUGHTIES OF THOSE NAUGHTY RHYTHMS ...
Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Dr. Feelgood, Kokomo: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, April 1975
THE SECOND wave of '70s bands to emerge from England is an entirely opposite affair from the glitter/glam of the Mark I model. It's centred ...
Letter from Britain: New Bands Hit The Pubs (And The Charts)
Report by Jonh Ingham, Creem, May 1975
"IT'S 1975, OKAY, and all across London town, hey hey," or something like that. It's not so much a case of no fun as a ...
Profile and Interview by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, June 1975
"We didn't set out to look like deranged bank clerks..." ...
Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, August 1975
THIS INTERVIEW TOOK place in Wilko's front room. Obviously tired and weary from the extensive Naughty Rhythms Tour, which still had three gigs to run, ...
Dr. Feelgood: 1975 Orange Festival, France
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 23 August 1975
ON PAPER, Saturday evening looked to be the least attractive evening of the festival but it was, in fact, a triumph for Dr Feelgood, who ...
Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
LONDON – "Where did they come from?" demanded a rock 'n roll lifer, pointing towards Dr. Feelgood who were entertaining at a star-studded and overstuffed ...
Pub Rock: Grass Roots On the Other Side of the Fence
Overview by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
IN BRITAIN during the late '60s and early '70s, while rock 'n roll was being transformed into Big Business, a network of bands sprang up ...
Dr Feelgood: Malpractice (United Artists) (36.08)
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 4 October 1975
FROM THE speed-crazed paranoid stares on the cover to the buzz-bomb guitar attacks inside, one question demands to be answered: would you let your parents ...
The /almost collected thoughts of Dr. Feelgood
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 18 October 1975
DR FEELGOOD: Wilko Johnson – guitar; Lee Brilleaux – vocals; John B Sparks – bass; The Figure – drums. They grew up on Canvey Island in ...
The Slaughterhouse 4: Dr Feelgood and Mr Freud (Cert X)
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 25 October 1975
MICK FARREN in the Abattoir with The Greatest Local Band In The World ...
Dr. Feelgood: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 15 November 1975
DEFINITELY a weird one. ...
Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, 'Rock on the Road' (Futura), 1976
THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...
Dr Feelgood: Malpractice (Columbia)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, January 1976
People who have seen this determinedly primitive English rock & roll combo on stage tell me Dr Feelgood is very exciting and great fun, qualities ...
Dr. Feelgood On The Road: Maximum R'n'B
Report and Interview by Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1976
THE DRESSING room is a scene of semi-chaos and ordered confusion... packets of half-eaten sandwiches, cans of lager, guitar cases, cigarette remains... the usual décor. ...
Ace: Time For Another (Anchor ANCL-2013); Dr. Feelgood: Malpractice (Columbia PC 34098)
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, May 1976
PUB ROCK BREAKDOWN ...
Dr Feelgood: Frighteningly Authentic Punk Posture
Profile and Interview by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, June 1976
THEY'RE EASY-GOIN' guys, but they always gotta have their way: when they tell you it ain't right you know you got to agree. ...
Dr. Feelgood: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll... But it's Crowded
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976
MICK FARREN bares armpits and gets sweaty (and drunk) with DR. FEELGOOD ...
Review by John Morthland, Creem, July 1976
DR. FEELGOOD is building on a fine and noble tradition. Their music is rooted in Chicago rhythm and blues, but while they may have gone ...
Dr. Feelgood: Hope & Anchor, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 September 1976
REAL CASE of dejaja vuvu it was, the night the Feelgoods played the Hope. To readers outside London the Hope and Anchor may just be ...
Dr Feelgood: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 25 September 1976
HERE IN Sheffield there's a local aphorism along the lines of "Tha' works 'ard, so bloody well play hard". It fits. Most of the concerts ...
Dr Feelgood: 'Ere, who you screwing, John?
Report and Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 2 October 1976
Once again our halls of entertainment echo to the banshee wail of urban youth. Here BRIAN CASE, always the man to spot the first robin ...
Dr Feelgood: Where There's a Wilko…
Report by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 30 October 1976
FEELGOODS' WILKO JOHNSON: 'I work for one hour a day and get paid about £2,000. That's why I want a television in my room.' ...
It's only Rock 'n' Roll ...But it's crowded
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976
MICK FARREN bares armpits and gets sweaty (and drunk) with DOCTOR FEELGOOD ...
Dr Feelgood: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 25 December 1976
THE FEELGOODS DO IT AGAIN ...
Dr Feelgood: The Grandfathers of Punk
Interview by Mick Houghton, Sounds, 1 January 1977
WILKO JOHNSON likes to talk about the truth – in his music, in his writing, and in his, or rather, the Dr. Feelgood attitude towards ...
Dr Feelgood: The Truth Behind The Break-up…
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 9 April 1977
AS REPORTED in the news pages Dr. Feelgood have come apart at the seams, with Wilko Johnson going one way and the rest of the ...
Just What The Dr. Ordered: A New Guitarist To Replace Wilko In The Feelgoods
Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 7 May 1977
IT'S BARDOT'S, Canvey Island, formerly Cloud Nine, former weekly haunt of Dr. Feelgood. It's Thursday, almost midnight, and Wilko Johnson has well and truly joined ...
Dr Feelgood: Sneakin' Suspicion (United Artists)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 14 May 1977
Is there a doctor in the house? CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY thinks the FEELGOODS might just need one… ...
Dr. Feelgood: Sneakin' Suspicion (United Artists UAS 30075)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 14 May 1977
Epitaph to Wilko ...
Dr. Feelgood: Exeter University, Exeter
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 May 1977
NO FLASH hyperbole, no frills on this one, reet, because, contrary to more than one sneaking suspicion, this new-fangled Feelgoods practice is in fine fettle ...
Doctor Feelgood: How's The New Boy Settling In, Chaps?
Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Sounds, 28 May 1977
Jolly well, it seems. It's smiles all round as DOCTOR FEELGOOD introduce new chap John Mayo to keen young cub reporter TIM LOTT (15). ...
Dr Feelgood: Now You See Him. Now You Don't.
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 4 June 1977
The goods on the Feelgoods: did Wilko fall or was he pushed? ...
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 17 September 1977
MAYBE IT'S FREUDIAN. The Feelgoods have picked up on a motif from The Prisoner for the title of this album and, in some ways, they're ...
Wilko Johnson: Wilko Not Buried Yet
Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977
WITH DOCTOR Feelgood moving into the charts and just embarked on a headlining nationwide tour, one question still hangs around the street corner waiting to ...
Wilko Johnson: Would You Go And See The Relentless Kings Of Terror?
Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 29 October 1977
WILKO JOHNSON wouldn't. But TIM LOTT we're not sure about ...
Dr. Feelgood: CBGB's, New York NY
Live Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 26 November 1977
GET THIS straight before we go one word further. This review is not going to be interesting. There is so little to be said about ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1977
FINALLY THE DEBUT of a Wilkoless Feelgoods is upon us. Even more than that, it's the Nick Lowe-produced debut of a Wilkoless Feelgoods. ...
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 16 September 1978
The Worthington White Shield of Rock ...
Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978
Dr Feelgood: Sheffield City Hall ...
Dr. Feelgood, Models: Crystal Ballroom, Melbourne
Live Review by Clinton Walker, Roadrunner, 14 July 1979
UP UNTIL going to this gig, I hadn't lately taken a lot of notice of Dr. Feelgood. Obviously, their first two albums, Down By The ...
Dr Feelgood: A Case Of The Shakes
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 September 1980
YOU HAVE to admit that Dr Feelgood know their own measure – no kowtowing to trend from this lot. Would you believe this record was ...
Dr Feelgood: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1980
New Feelgoods know the ropes ...
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1980
Dr. Feelgood's Los Angeles debut four years ago was an impressive and welcome breath of fresh air. The British quartet's lean, mean brand of English ...
Dr. Feelgood's Lee Brilleaux (1981) [transcipt]
Transcript of audio interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 8 February 1981
This is a transcript of Ian's audio interview with Lee. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Dr Feelgood: Meanwhile, Back At The Feelgoods
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 2 January 1982
MADE IT THROUGH another day and here we are! The students of the fair city of Leeds play host to the band that defined British ...
Dr Feelgood: Pure Essex Voodoo
Retrospective and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, August 1987
ONE OF THE few remaining saving graces of rock'n'roll is that its most compelling legends do not always belong to those who achieve the greatest ...
Lee Brilleaux: What the Doctor lauded
Obituary by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 14 April 1994
Lee Brilleaux, frontman of the legendary Dr Feelgood, died last week. MAX BELL remembers the pub rocker's pub rocker. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, November 1995
It is but one of life’s minor ironies that both Sid James and Lee Brilleaux, two of England’s best-loved and most sadly-missed postwar icons of ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 30 January 2005
Flood and drugs and R&B – the life and works of Wilko Johnson have been fast and turbulent. But the Essex Assassin is still rocking ...
Pub Rock: We'll Drink To That!
Retrospective and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Record Collector, 19 October 2007
"Watch Out! First Time Ever! Non-Stop Real Music Coming Your Way At 1000 Smiles An Hour!" ...
Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 13 February 2009
They paved the way for punk, but have been forgotten by history. A new film revisits the strange world from which Dr. Feelgood came, writes ...
Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, October 2009
A fierce, gritty riposte to early-'7Os excess, Dr Feelgood weren't just trailblazers for punk but, fleetingly, the biggest band in England. With a new Julien ...
Dr Feelgood: Oil Youyouyouou Be Seeing
Film/DVD/TV Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 10 January 2010
A New Film, Oil City Confidential, Tells The Dr Feelgood Story. Daryl Easlea Relives His Youth ...
Caught in the glare: Wilko Johnson has no regrets
Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, GQ, December 2013
Dr Feelgood's electric axeman refashioned R&B and cleared a path for punk during a life less ordinary. ...
see also Wilko Johnson
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