RIP Joe Cocker

[SloopJonB]

Joe Cocker has died from lung disease. Has there ever been a white guy who sang with more feeling? It's rare for a cover of a song to be better than the original artists version but in his case they always were.

[cap10ed]

Cast of who's who in this Cocker song "The Letter" . Mad Dogs and Englishmen.RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnjWLVyMps

[Rob McAlpine]

He had the balls to cover the Beatles, and made the songs his. He certainly twitched on stage. Loved Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

Does anyone remember National Lampoon's Lemmings? It was a spoof of Woodstock, and featured a very young John Belushi in a parody of Joe Cocker, jerking uncontrollably and screaming "muscular dystrophy, muscular dystrophy" at the top of his lungs.

[Orestes Munn]

He certainly didn't hold much back. RIP.

[Tucky]

As I mentioned on SA, I missed Woodstock (the reality) but went to opening night of the movie in Ann Arbor. When the lights went off in the theatre folks walked down and sat in the aisles, as was the fashion at a real show. After "Get By", Joe and the band got a standing ovation in a movie theater.

RIP

[SloopJonB]

Cast of who's who in this Cocker song "The Letter" . Mad Dogs and Englishmen.RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnjWLVyMps

Leon looks almost bored! The consummate pro.

We probably won't have him much longer either. Anyone who doesn't know his history should look it up - absolutely amazing career - incredibly versatile.

[Rob McAlpine]

Leon came to Midland a couple of years ago, played pretty well but looked rode hard and put up wet.

[Tucky]

I saw Leon at a small club in Saco, Maine in the 80's, a complete bottoming out for him. He was coked out of his mind and being led around on a string by Edgar Winter. Just a disaster and I'm surprised he lived this long, let alone had a revived career. But what a talent. The moment in Bangladesh where he comes in on the second verse of Beware of Darkness and the crowd explodes is one of my favorite vinyl live moments- he was at the heights then.

I saw JJ Cale at the same club in the same 80's- equally coked out and near dead, yet he came back as well. That club must have paid in coke. It is now an abandoned day care center, go figure.

[Ken Heaton (Salazar)]

As I mentioned on SA, I missed Woodstock (the reality) but went to opening night of the movie in Ann Arbor. When the lights went off in the theatre folks walked down and sat in the aisles, as was the fashion at a real show. After "Get By", Joe and the band got a standing ovation in a movie theater.

RIP

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk[/youtube]

[Ken Heaton (Salazar)]

A few years later. Queen's Golden Jubilee, 3 June 2002
Phil Collins - drums
Brian May - guitar

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wG6Cgmgn5U[/youtube]