Founded in the early 1970s, Dr Feelgood is a pub rock band that had its biggest hits between 1974 and 1979.
Formed by guitarist Wilko Johnson, vocalist Lee Brilleaunx, drummer John Martin and bassist John B. Sparks, they moved between rock and roll and blues rock with influences from greats such as Chuck Berry or Bon Diddley, making a great reputation mainly in direct on the London circuit of pubs and small concert halls.
With the first two albums they had some commercial success, and in 1976 they published the direct "Stupidity" with which they were definitively consecrated reaching number one in the British charts.
A year later, "Sneakin´Suspicion" would arrive. Although it did not have the repercussion of its predecessor, it was his best work, commercially unfairly eclipsed by the booming punk movement of those years.
With a repertoire loaded with explosive and joyful R&B such as "Nothin´Shakin", "Light Out", "Lucky Seven" or "You´ll Be Mine" maintained the high level of the band, which however would be the last recorded by Wilko Johnson for musical disagreements with the rest of the band.
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