Mad Dogs & Englishmen (album) coincide with the tour was also included. "The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen" was recorded by Russell later in 1970 and released on his "Leon Russell and the Shelter People" album in 1971. Mad Dogs & Englishmen (album) Mad Dogs & Englishmen is a live album by Joe Cocker, released in 1970. The album's title is drawn from the 1931 Noël Coward song of the same name. Only four songs of the 16 on the original album were drawn from his first two studio albums. Besides the contributions of bandmate and musical director Leon Russell, it draws equally from
Derek and the Dominos Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" tour with Leon Russell, but Whitlock remained with the Bramletts for a short time. In April 1970, at the suggestion of his friend and mentor Steve Cropper, Whitlock travelled to England to visit Clapton.<ref name="Harris/Mojo p 70">Harris, p. 70.</ref> Whitlock subsequently lived in Hurtwood Edge, Clapton's house in Surrey, where the two musicians would jam and, on acoustic guitars, began writing the bulk of the Dominos' catalogue.<ref name="Sutcliffe/Mojo"> Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).</ref> Many of these songs reflected Clapton's growing infatuation with Pattie Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison,<ref name="Layla40/Goldmine"></ref> who