{"id":167968,"date":"2025-11-07T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/167968\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:40:15","slug":"joe-cockers-mad-dogs-englishmen-concert-film-premieres-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/167968\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Cocker\u2019s \u2018Mad Dogs & Englishmen\u2019 Concert Film Premieres on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Cocker<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s decorated legacy continues to be celebrated, with the release of the acclaimed documentary Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Originally debuted in theaters in 1971, the documentary (which also doubles as a concert film) is now available on Cocker\u2019s official YouTube channel to watch in its entirety for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Pierre Adidge, Mad Dogs & Englishmen followed the Grammy-winning English rocker on his 1970 North American tour alongside fellow singer-songwriter Leon Russell. Throughout its two-hour runtime, the documentary shows Cocker\u2019s impassioned performances of classics like \u201cDelta Lady\u201d and \u201cFeeling Alright\u201d with scenes highlighting moments in tour buses, vans, and planes.<\/p>\n

Tour manager Sherman \u201cSmitty\u201d Jones and infamous figures like rock groupie Barbara Cope, also known as \u201cThe International Butter Queen,\u201d also make appearances. There\u2019s also fun backstage footage, with Cocker sharing quotables like \u201cI used to sing in front of the mirror with a tennis racket\u2026full of shit I am\u201d and \u201cIf you really want results, you have to forget everything you have of your old self, let\u2019s say, and just surrender to what\u2019s going on.\u201d Footage of Cocker performing the Beatles\u2019 \u201cShe Came In Through The Bathroom Window\u201d from the film was previously remastered and released in August.<\/p>\n

Mad Dogs & Englishmen drew praise from iconic film critic Roger Ebert, who called its performance footage \u201cthe best rock coverage since Woodstock\u201d in his Chicago Sun-Times review. \u201cThe sound is first rate, for one thing,\u201d Ebert added, \u201cand director Pierre Adidge has some idea of why Cocker electrifies a crowd.\u201d Vincent Canby of The New York Times shared similar sentiments, praising it as \u201cone of the best concert films so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

The YouTube premiere of Mad Dogs & Englishmen comes just before Cocker\u2019s posthumous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The ceremony takes place on November 8 in Los Angeles and will also be streaming live on Disney+ beginning at 8 pm ET.<\/p>\n

Last month, three classic albums from Cocker\u2019s lengthy discography were reissued on vinyl. 1967\u2019s With A Little Help From My Friends and 1969\u2019s Joe Cocker! were both re-released on new 1LP Standard black vinyl. The rocker\u2019s 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen, the tour\u2019s accompanying live album, was reissued on 2LP standard black vinyl.<\/p>\n

Buy Joe Cocker\u2019s Mad Dogs & Englishmen on vinyl or CD now.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Cocker\u2019s decorated legacy continues to be celebrated, with the release of the acclaimed documentary Mad Dogs &…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,96413,96414,337,6318,44480],"class_list":{"0":"post-167968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-joe-cocker","13":"tag-mad-dogs-englishmen","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-rock","16":"tag-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115508702799692632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}