E9590 - Dr. Feelgood: Canvey Island Pub Rock Band That Outlived Its Founders

Dr. Feelgood still tours the world more than 50 years after forming, yet not a single original member is on stage. This episode asks what actually constitutes a band by tracing the group from its 1971 origins on Canvey Island, an industrial Essex landscape below sea level dominated by oil refineries. The original lineup of Lee Brilleaux on vocals, Wilko Johnson on guitar, John B. Sparko Sparks on bass and John The Big Figure Martin on drums took its name from a 1962 Willie Perryman record and its attitude from the bleak early 1970s UK, becoming the kings of a pub rock...