One of the greatest rock films of all time, Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen gets digitally overhauled and released on DVD for the very first time! This film captures one of the most exciting concert tours ever and defines the spirit of a generation in much the same way as Woodstock and The Last Waltz. Joe Cocker and friends, among them rock legend Leon Russell and Rita Coolidge, cut loose with close to two dozen incredible songs. Mad Dogs & Englishmen stands today as one of the most dramatic visual records of a tour and a time, with backstage footage, fan interviews and electric performances. Remastered in 5.1 surround and stereo, this DVD also includes a Personal Playlist, allowing the viewer to sequence & play this film’s full-length, classic live performances like "Delta Lady," "With A Little Help From My Friends" and "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window." As an added bonus, the package comes with a 24-page Pressbook from the original theatrical marketing of the film in 1971. TRACKS: ALBION INTRO. FROM THE ANGLO-SAXOPHONE WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN DELTA LADY FEELIN’ ALRIGHT CHANGE IN LOUISE DARLIN’ BE HOME SOON GOING TO NEW YORK CITY SUPERSTAR WE LOVE YOU CONRAD PLEASE GIVE PEACE A CHANCE SHE CAME IN THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW LET IT BE THE LETTER STICKS AND STONES LAWDY MISS CLAWDY BIRD ON A WIRE HONKY TONK WOMAN SPACE CAPTAIN SOMETHING WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS THE BALLAD OF MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN BONUS MATERIAL: DTS 5.1 SURROUND SOUND DOLBY 5.1 SURROUND SOUND DOLBY STEREO PERSONAL PLAYLIST 24-PAGE PRESSBOOK
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0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Great DVDJun 01, 2008 I've enjoyed Joe Cocker with The Mad Dogs & Englishmen for 38 years. Was glad to finally see the film of the tour. Wow, did it bring back memories. Loved it!
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mad dogs and englishmenMay 21, 2008 I got this movie as a gift. i have never seen it, but my friend says it's cool
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It was the greatest rock tour ever to hit the states in 1970Oct 29, 2007 I lived in San Francisco in the early 70's and hit the Fillmore and Avalon many times. I couldn't get to San Bernardino to see them live but the movie of the tour was a mind blowing trip and was one of many tours to go around the U.S. in 1970. A bunch of friends from L.A. came up one weekend in the fall of '70 and we all went out to the theatre on Geary Blvd. and saw the movie. Leon Russell, Bobby Keyes, Rita Coolidge, wow, what a backup band and great singers they were. The album (CD nowadays) brings back so many memories, and yes, pass the joint when you watch the movie (DVD) and see what many concerts were like at the Fillmore. These guys were fabulous and to this day, I can still say, I love Joe Cocker. God he was on...nothin' matches the intensity he had. Great stuff...
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The Performance Was Joe's Thing @ How I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends. Jun 03, 2007 Buying all his early LP's being one of those young kids enamored with the blue eyed soul bands like the great Rascals,Animals, those great Box Tops singles and then Joe, this later day Woodstock legend from Sheffield UK that burst out fusing the persona of a manic spastic standing drunken Ray Charles with a voice of gravel, fire and honey delivering brassy rock gospel panache with a hippie entourage of dreamers,rock icons, passionate musicians who were clearly into jazz and good roots music cutting his 1st 2 studio albums with the then great musicians like Jimmy Page,Stevie Winwood,Leon Russell,Chris Stainton and then on Mad Dogs capturing a wild travelling minstrel show of hippie gypsy life on the road barnstorming through America is all captured here on this wonderful DVD showing you why Joe was one of the greatest at his game who unfortunately due to whatever excess, psychological and chemical who like most musicians that live the down and out portraits of their music become a self fulfilling prophecy.
I later saw Cocker on the "Stingray" tour and he had to be escorted off the stage in a drunken stupor nonetheless I was glad to be there.
As to the film itself, it is a treat..it's 1960's early 1970's imagery,improvisational dialogue,camera using 3 views simultaneously of the concert portion is all highly entertaining,never boring as the music is all driving soulful renditions of songs transformed by Cocker into a vehicle all of his own with a loose band of entertainers combining folly and intensity that worked very well.
Too bad, that despite the likes of his then relationships with Leon Russel,Rita Coolidge, members of this large choir, noted rock horn men, his contacts and a@R men, how this driven exuberant performer like Cocker was a wanderer enduring without a steady band of his own,not being known as a major songwriter but a talent covering classics in his own fashion , groping through the rest of his career with various sounds and noted musicians whether reggae tinged,Randy Newman style tin pan alley,is all best summed up on his wonderful box set "Long Voyage Home" and like this film and the 2 CD deluxe edition of the soundtrack is your ticket into essential Cocker and into this highly sensitive man who did a lot to bring great jazz,soul music into the the white mainstream while covering the Beatles,Leonard Cohen,Traffic,Animals,Dylan,Box Tops,Lovin Spoonful(J.Sebastin),Rolling Stones.Jackson Browne,...
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I know I saw this in the theaterMar 24, 2007 I will order this because I can't remember what the original was about.
Somehow I survived the 60's and embraced the 70's with a new found passion for.....I forget what the passion was....maybe this DVD will remind what all that was about.
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