Fact #156862
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Short story:
Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs And Englishmen tour plays its first gig, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The famously debauched tour will inspire Leon Russell to write the song The Ballad Of Mad Dogs And Englishmen, based on his experiences while playing in the tour.
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Jim Keltner (drummer) : The real decrepit things went on. Sharing girls. Screwing every chick in sight. Most were there for that purpose. The drugs were just as easy to get. I wasn't a stranger to them myself. Now I feel like I'm lucky to have survived them.
Rita Coolidge (backing vocalist) : I couldn't have imagined what was in front of me. The drugs, the alcohol and everything. It was chaotic.
What I got from the Joe Cocker tour was a degree from Rock and Roll University in two months.
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Rita Coolidge (backing vocalist) : I couldn't have imagined what was in front of me. The drugs, the alcohol and everything. It was chaotic.
What I got from the Joe Cocker tour was a degree from Rock and Roll University in two months.
(Source : not known)