who recalls what a sweet soul Joe Cocker had but also how stressed-out he was (something visible, at moments, in the old footage). Leon Russell discusses the 300 hours of film footage that ...

(CBS 11 NEWS) - How about a #1 song from 1967 originally done by the American pop-rock group The Box Tops, but was also a hit in 1970 for an Englishman named Joe ... piano was Leon Russell and ...

Joe Cocker's triumphant set at Woodstock brought his distinctive vocals and peerless interpretive talent to thousands of new fans. But by the end of 1969, he was a singer in search of a band ...

Joe Cocker and Leon Russell performing onstage in the early 1970s Tensions were running high in the Mad Dogs camp. Cocker noticed how Russell, despite his own talent, had become envious and ...

Leon Russell is responsible for much of the best ... the biggest hits of the time — to being the musical force behind Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour, Russell was entrenched in the ...

That’s the idea behind the 10-track “A Song for Leon,” due Sept ... Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker. As an oft-top-hatted bandleader, Russell organized Cocker’s famously boisterous Mad ...

He should be protected at all costs. Leon Russell entered my consciousness when I saw the movie and later purchased the soundtrack for Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen. He was this ...

And still, I suspect that if I were to merely list all of the songs that Leon Russell was involved with ... and led the band that accompanied Joe Cocker on his famous Mad Dogs and Englishmen ...

A selective list of Leon Russell’s collaborators reads like a roll call of rock divinity: Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beach Boys, Ike and Tina Turner, the Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan ...