Director Julien Temple's film celebrates Dr Feelgood, the early Seventies Essex R 'n' B band who paved the way for pub rock and punk. In a moving study of the heyday of a seminal British band and the personal forces that pulled them apart, Temple examines Canvey Island culture as a 'Thames delta' for British rhythm and blues. Feelgood guitarist and songwriter Wilko Johnson was a British original, his relationship with lead singer Lee Brilleaux driving the band through their early performances and three albums between 1975 and 1976.
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