sentences:  It proved to be a large group of more than 20 musicians, including pianist and bandleader Leon Russell, three drummers – Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner, and Chuck Blackwell, and backing vocalists Rita Coolidge and Claudia Lennear.Denny Cordell christened the new band "Mad Dogs & Englishmen," after the Noël Coward song of the same name (with its refrain, "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun").Cocker's music evolved into a more bluesy type of rock, comparable to that of the Rolling Stones.