Dr Feelgood: Looking Back
Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, November 1995
It is but one of lifes minor ironies that both Sid James and Lee Brilleaux, two of Englands best-loved and most sadly-missed postwar icons of Diamond Geezerdom, were actually native South Africans. Said irony is further compounded by the fact that Lee Brilleaux helmed what was undoubtedly the finest blues-based British band to emerge between Peter Greens departure from Fleetwood Mac and, oohh, sometime next week.
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