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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. ...
Review by Mick Farren, NME, 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 ...
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, September 1978
MY, THESE boys really have moved up in the world. Once upon a time, it was the local quack and 'You Shouldn't Call The Doctor ...
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Interview by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages Audio, 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: ***
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Doctor Feelgood: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, 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. ...
Dr. Feelgood: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, 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, NME, 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, NME, 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, NME, January 1975
BOYS, BOYS now what did I tell you about being "too ethnic"? ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dr Feelgood: Malpractice (United Artists) (36.08)
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 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, 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, NME, 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, NME, November 1975
DEFINITELY a weird one. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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, NME, 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, NME, 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: Where There's a Wilko…
Report by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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, NME, November 1976
MICK FARREN bares armpits and gets sweaty (and drunk) with DOCTOR FEELGOOD ...
Dr Feelgood: The Grandfathers of Punk
Interview by Mick Houghton, Sounds, 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, NME, 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, 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, NME, May 1977
Is there a doctor in the house? CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY thinks the FEELGOODS might just need one… ...
Dr. Feelgood: Exeter University, Exeter
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, 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 ...
Dr Feelgood: Now You See Him. Now You Don't.
Interview by Nick Kent, NME, June 1977
The goods on the Feelgoods: did Wilko fall or was he pushed? ...
Interview by Mick Farren, NME, 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 ...
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, September 1978
The Worthington White Shield of Rock ...
Dr Feelgood: A Case Of The Shakes
Review by Max Bell, NME, 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 ...
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 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: Meanwhile, Back At The Feelgoods
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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 ...
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, 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 ...
see also Wilko Johnson
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