Dr. Feelgood still tours the world more than 50 years after forming, yet not a single original member is on stage. This episode asks what actually constitutes a band by tracing the group from its 1971 origins on Canvey Island, an industrial Essex landscape below sea level dominated by oil refineries. The original lineup of Lee Brilleaux on vocals, Wilko Johnson on guitar, John B. Sparko Sparks on bass and John The Big Figure Martin on drums took its name from a 1962 Willie Perryman record and its attitude from the bleak early 1970s UK, becoming the kings of a pub rock movement that rejected bloated stadium spectacle.

We break down Wilko Johnson's choppy, pick-free guitar style that made one instrument sound like two, Brilleaux's menacing delivery in a rumpled white suit, and the run from Down by the Jetty and Malpractice to the 1976 live al ...