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NEW YORK, 1970

Yes, but I was very lucky.

It must have been destiny or something ...

but next to my house Only one woman lived.

I was a widow, and she let me listen his gramophone.

And I would sing in front of the mirror...

with a tennis racket.

In the mirror.

That's how I started

With a tremendous ego. Excuse?

- How old were you...? - About 12.

An idiocy.

Look, man ...

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

We used to hand out newspapers in this area.

We both worked for the same store ...

but Joe had a route slightly different from mine.

We did not earn much money, but it was something.

So, we did not get in trouble.

My God.

Early in the morning, during the weekends ...

after finishing to distribute the newspapers ...

I was going to see Joe.

When I entered, he was always listening to music.

His breakfast were two servings Weetabix cereal ...

EXCOMPAÑERO DE BANDA

full of water and sugar.

This is...

This is Joe, incredibly elegant, with his mom and me

Y...

Here we have it more "a lo Joe" ...

with the hair mixed.

Joe and elegance They never got along very well.

Teen Joe, as if reflecting, Looking up the cliffs.

A friend, Dave Brooksbank ...

He said to arm a skiffle band.

I think we played at a youth club ...

and Joe joined us for one of the numbers.

I think Joe did not have ...

more than 12 years at that time.

And he went up and sang with us.

Until then, I had no idea that he had a good voice.

BROTHER

When you're older brother, you do not usually look ...

that kind of talent in your younger brother.

This is a very special photo of Joe in a swimsuit.

And he's showing his belly ...

with a great impact.

Joe got along with everyone ...

It was always the soul of the party.

Everyone wanted to be with him.

Wherever he went, they followed him.

It created like a party.

He had a small radio to transistors ...

and I remember that one night He told me: "Listen to this."

I had been waiting for it to sound.

I used to have it like this, over my ear.

It was "What Did I Say" by Ray Charles.

The signal was bad, but ...

VOICE OF JOE COCKER

but the voice affected me in some way.

Everyone rejected me because I became obsessed with listening to him.

FIRST RECORDED RECORDING OF JOE COCKER SINGING LIVE, 1963

SING WITH JOE AND HIS NEW LOWREY ORGAN

EVERY SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS AT NIGHT

I sang at night and worked during the day.

Everyone expected me to get a job, my parents were waiting for him ...

and I did not know what the hell did he want to do?

Then he arrived the possibility of being a gas ...

when I was only 16.

I entered as an apprentice and became a gas ...

It's like being a plumber, but you install gas appliances.

But the singing ...

always weighed more in my head ...

and every night We would sing to the pubs

I do not remember, it will have been a year or two.

But it must have been Joe's idea ...

to form a band.

My mother, bless her, bought me a guitar called Lucky 7 ...

that was totally white.

Joe was playing a drummer ...

and his parents did not bother them, I suppose ...

that we used the back room to rehearse.

I learned to do bending ...

in that room on the right.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

"So that's how it's done, you just have to ..."

Yes, here Joe started.

He had a band, and we played at Locarno in Sheffield.

One night, Joe appeared in the audience ...

MUSICIAN

He approached me and said: "Do you want to join my band?"

It was a rival band and he played blues ...

and all the interesting things what I wanted to do

So I said: "Yes, I would love it".

He was disheveled, He did not care about his appearance.

It was a jumble of curly hair, very disheveled ...

but I liked it because it was ...

He was a real, real guy.

It was weird that we never crossed paths in all those years ...

that we live in the same city ...

until 1967, when the two We felt that the sunset was coming.

If we did not do something soon, we were going to lose.

There we started to compose together.

It was an instrumental that I had composed at home ...

with my recorder, in the living room ...

and it developed.

For percussion ...

I had a bowl of brass fruit What did my mom have ...

that I hit.

My mom was up, in your room ...

hitting the floor for me to shut up.

It was about two in the morning.

And I touched her for Joe, and he loved how it sounded.

About three days later he returned ...

and he had composed the letter.

THE MUSICAL PRODUCER DENNY CORDELL LISTEN TO A RECORDING OF "MARJORINE"

INVITE JOE COCKER AND TO CHRIS STAINTON

TO LONDON TO RECORD THE THEME.

Denny had a special talent to choose musicians and songs.

I think I never heard Let him come up with a musical idea.

SOUND ENGINEER PRODUCER

I never saw him give anything to anyone ...

I think he did not even know how to whistle ...

but it generated an atmosphere very creative in the studio ...

and he was a great producer.

For me, it was fabulous. "Go."

It was a giant study, full of equipment ...

and fabulous consoles. And Glyn Johns!

Because he was a true genius.

The only thing I remember from the session ...

is that Chris Stainton came in at the beginning of the session ...

and he said: "I have a way I want you to record my piano "...

I did not like it very much.

I do not usually like a musician Tell me how to record.

At that time, I did not know who he was.

And I think I told him ...

I think I gave it quite funny.

I told him where to place the microphone on the piano.

I told: "If you put it back, it will sound great."

"If he wants to, I'll do it."

And, the truth, it was very effective ...

so I recognized him immediately.

Joe is not an Adonis, precisely.

It was not material for pop star ...

but his voice was extraordinary, that's why I thought we would succeed.

They released it as simple, I think.

And I think it came to number 43 or something like that.

I used to listen to others, like the Beatles or the Stones ...

and it seemed to me that I could do the same, or even better.

I just needed to make the jump ...

something that would draw attention of the public.

We were giving concerts in London ...

and, at a certain moment, Joe said he wanted to do ...

"A Little Help From My Friends", but not like the Beatles.

For some strange reason, I thought in "A Little Help From My Friends" ...

and I was in the external toilet from Tasker Street.

I had my pants down.

I do not know if that was part of what inspired me.

He liked that rhythm ...

of six octaves.

Many of Aretha's albums they have that

I said, "And if you do the cry of Ray Charles? ".

THE SURPRISE OF COCKER

JOE JUMPS TO THE CIMA

I had been invited to Apple ...

and George was there.

I think they were finishing Abbey Road ...

and George touched me something ...

and I said: "I'll touch her".

And then Paul McCartney intervened ...

and said: "You can use this one".

CONFESSIONS OF THE BEATLES

We reached number one with "Little Help" in England ...

and I remember that Dee Anthony He came to see us at a club in London ...

and said: "Do you want to come to the United States?

I'll pay you $ 2000 per week ", or at night, maybe.

Imagine, guys from Sheffield, in England, we heard that ...

and we think: "My God!".

We had always wanted to go to the United States.

We did not have influence in United States...

to "Little Help From My Friends", that was a great success ...

so suddenly we were there, as if by magic.

We earned money, We felt at the top.

We played for audiences more and more numerous ...

throughout the United States ...

and we were like children ...

afraid that the bubble would burst at any time.

And the groupies were pouncing on us.

Suddenly...

COCKER COMES ALREADY

I ran out to buy the album.

SINGER - COMPOSER

I thought: "If so many people play with him, It has to be good. "

Jimmy Page played on the album.

And Steve Winwood.

Some of the best musicians Britons played on their first album ...

and we all asked: "Who is that Joe Cocker?".

It was a brilliant record ...

COPROPIETARY AND CO-FOUNDER AandM RECORDS

and it was very well received by the people on the radio ...

that I respected, and there I knew That was a great discovery.

He was one of the people more eloquent than I knew ...

and I had only gone to school.

He was absolutely charming.

He longed to launch his career, he was interested in the industry ...

it was very exciting.

WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL

When I hired Joe, I had never seen him on stage.

The first time I heard it ...

I think Denny Cordell He had sent me a tape of his.

And when I heard it, I thought it was wonderful ...

CO-FOUNDER WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL

but I thought it was a black blues singer.

We had to go by helicopter, where I vomited ...

from the helicopter.

Because I had taken LSD, I had taken acid ...

because everyone took everything at that time.

I had taken acid, and it was a bit heavy.

I do not know how the hell I managed to play.

I was in Woodstock ...

and one of the people at I had gone to see was Joe Cocker.

It impacted how strong his voice was.

It was amazing.

He was a skinny little Englishman with her hair mixed ...

who moved his hands in a strange way

He did the guitar mime before that existed.

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

Clearly, it was an instrument ...

it was part of his process of production.

He trembled and contorted ...

SINGER - COMPOSER

He contracted his fists, He moved strangely.

All that told me: "That guy is in the heart of what he sings.

It's not a fake that ... It really is like that, go. "

From the beginning, he was always like that.

I always gave 150%.

He became totally frantic every time he sang.

I put my soul.

I do not know how he managed to keep that intensity.

That moment in Woodstock It was the real jump ...

for the creation of your image.

At some point, everyone understood.

BROTHER

Everyone saw what it was.

There are three things I remember from 1969.

Woodstock, the album that Led Zeppelin released ...

and Joe Cocker's.

So I summarize 1969.

At that time, everyone seemed to believe ...

that Joe was the number one artist of the United States.

It was famous, it was tremendous.

Your representative, Dee Anthony ...

had organized a great tour for the United States ...

and Joe was coming of a tour in England ...

and I know he felt ...

I was going to be able to stop and rest.

Five or six days before that the tour began ...

SINGER

Dee Anthony told him: "It's not time to rest.

If you do not make these dates ...

you will not go back to work in United States".

I imagine that Dee I would be able to say that, but ...

COPROPIETARY AND CO-FOUNDER

I never found out

I only know that everyone was determined ...

to do the tour the greatest possible success

He said they were going to break the legs.

"We have already signed the contracts and we reserve the theaters.

We already sold the tickets. You have to do it".

If not...

tacitly suggested that someone was going to hurt Joe.

And his representative told him ...

the guy who was supposed to that helped him strengthen his career.

Maybe Dee just said something who believed that could happen ...

but, for me, I did not say it with love and concern.

What do we fly over?

We can feel the energy.

- I feel. - We're going to land.

If that is...

The space camp.

Yes!

IN 1969, COCKER KNOWS THE MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER LEON RUSSELL.

LEON RUSSELL COPRODUCE THE SECOND ALBUM OF JOE COCKER ...

WHICH INCLUDES THE RUSSELL THEME "DELTA LADY".

YOU ACCEPT TO ADD TO THE TOUR.

I met Joe on the day who came to record with Leon.

I think he recorded "Delta Lady" ...

and I met him that day ...

and I fell in love with him ...

for his presence.

Everything about Joe was sweet and kind.

Leon came and said: "I will set up the band ...

I'll make the arrangements, we'll do the tour ...

but I have to take all decisions. "

At that time, I think that Joe did not seem so terrible ...

because I was exhausted.

That's how we met Leon Russell.

And I already adored him from afar ...

for all his work in gospel.

MUSICIAN

And I thought: "Rays, that's how the piano is played".

Leon said: "I will go with you ...

with the condition that I put together the rest of the band. "

And, in just half an hour, got another 40 musicians.

I could not believe how good everyone was.

Everyone was brilliant.

I did not feel as good as them.

Before the tour, Joe said: "Do we need four drummers?"

And Leon said: "Which one are you going to fire?"

It was important for the record company ...

to be able to mount something like that ...

because he had called attention of the great record companies ...

and I knew that, if we did not meet ...

It would seem that we did not support to that artist.

Jerry Moss said: "This is different ...

of anything else, we have to film it. "

And it started to appear the film crew.

Suddenly, instead of 25 people, there were 50 people ...

and the number kept going up until we get on the plane.

COCKER POWER

MARCH 1970

SEVEN WEEKS - 48 CITIES

FIFTY-TWO CONCERTS

"Mad Dogs and Englishmen" It was a great name for the tour.

You are waiting for a circus ...

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

and that's what it was ...

with a galley director and everything, Leon Russell ...

and I had never seen Such a strange scenario ...

with all the people there.

I forgot how many ...

There were times when there was 40 people on stage ...

but it was, more than anything, that when something becomes communal ...

you get the spirit.

For me, it was Leon's band.

Even Joe seemed a bit lost.

Leon was a spectacular showman a natural leader ...

the director, producer, in charge of the arrangements ...

choreographer, everything that comes to mind

The only moment that Joe was comfortable ...

was when I was walking to the center of the stage ...

and directed it ...

because he had a raw talent, incredible and natural.

I think he did not realize ...

that he was not going to be able to control nothing ...

that he was just the type ...

who walked to the center of the stage and sang.

I think Leon tried to eclipse him on stage, without success.

I could not.

Everyone shouted that they wanted Joe, for whatever reason.

He always gave that giggle ...

that smirk I had ...

and he rolled his eyes ...

and I did not understand what the hell was going on.

"How do I get out of here? Where is the door? ".

There were too many drugs out there.

The truth, it was horrible ...

and they destroyed Joe.

Nobody took care of him.

Everyone told him: "Take this."

"Come on, Joe, good Joe."

Nobody seemed to mind what will happen to him

It led me to understand ...

the responsibility of the record company.

And our responsibility, basically, It was to make a good record.

But we could not represent it ...

and I remember Bill Anthony he told Dee ...

that he was upset about something that Joe had made on the west coast ...

and Bill had to watch him, and he said ...

Bill looked at me and said: "I can not follow him 24 hours.

It is impossible. No representative can do that. "

"I would have to sleep with him ...

and I would prefer not to do that. "

It all started with peace and love ...

but, at the end of the tour, it was more ...

Everyone wanted to kill others. It was terrible.

It was quite an experience. It was something different.

We ...

We thought we were going to Venus ...

that the next stop It was outer space.

Of course, it did not evolve like this.

And I finished in very poor condition in Los Angeles ...

very disappointed with the rock industry.

I was not surprised that there was no money left at the end of that tour.

If we consider the number of people on the tour, with those of the shooting ...

the cost of that equipment, of the 50 people ...

There was no way that there would be money left for anyone.

Leon did not earn money. Nobody won money.

And Joe had given everything, literally ...

and had not received anything in return.

At the end of the tour ...

went to Denny Cordell's house ...

and he stayed there for a while ...

I was sleeping next to the front door.

I had nowhere to live.

I had no money to buy a guitar, even.

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

I remember that he appeared at home.

He looked like a savage, really.

My parents worried a lot.

It was very shocking to see him like that.

I could barely speak.

He would release a phrase from time to time.

BROTHER

No complete sentences.

What do you think of Sheffield?

Do you still consider it your home?

The place where you escape from pressures to which you are exposed?

The truth, no. I do not think I can escape anymore.

I was in a trance.

He used heroin, acid, everything.

It was not in good condition.

That tour marked him.

He was an eloquent guy, warm and fun ...

who valued the work what they did for him.

He was kind to the people of AandM ...

and the people wanted it and I wanted to help him.

But, after that tour, It was less pleasant.

It had become a product.

It was expected to be the singer with the band.

I had a certain innocence that never disappeared.

Sheffield wine ...

and they threw it to stardom, literally ...

and I think he could never adapt ...

to the clamor, noise and adoration.

I think that is one of the reasons for those who used drugs.

Every time they offered him something ...

he put it in his mouth.

I do not want to be derogatory, but Joe was drugged with teenagers.

If they played somewhere ...

it came from behind, where the fans waited ...

and he would sit down and talk to them.

He was a man from the village, that's for sure ...

but he liked the substances.

If he went on stage and someone gave him a pill ...

he put it in his mouth without looking at it, even

I do not know how I used to sing without skipping a verse ...

without missing a note.

I said, "Joe, how are you doing?"

"The only difference between a pill of acid and 11 ", he said ...

"It's the pain I feel in the back of my neck."

Joe had kept a very high profile on that tour ...

and also before ...

and after the tour, disappeared from the map.

We always ask ourselves: "What happened to Joe? Where is he?".

And, what is the industry of the music, people ignored him, saying:

"It fell on the sales lists, nothing else".

What will happen to Joe Cocker?

What are you going to do now?

I do not know yet. I know that...

I will rock somehow.

AFTER MAD DOGS, COCKER DOES NOT GO FOR TWO YEARS.

Jim Price ran into Joe ...

and wanted to produce Joe's next album.

I wanted to make any record, so I said: "Great."

This matter...

It's for you to meet Jim Webb. To Jimmy Webb.

Suddenly, Jim Price called me ...

SINGER - COMPOSER

He said that Joe wanted to make a theme.

He never missed a note ...

because I thought: "Sure, he has to sing this song".

One night, Jim Price called me ...

and he said: "I want you to come to study to meet Joe Cocker "...

and I said: "Wow, I would love it".

And Jim Price met me at the door.

It seemed that the study It was almost deserted ...

and I walked backwards.

And he said: "Joe was dying to meet you."

And he went to the control room, Open the door...

and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joe Cocker "...

and there I saw two legs that came from under the console ...

with giant boots.

And I was deeply asleep under the console.

I do not know how he spent his time ...

but I did not sleep to get up in the morning ...

and understand that I was going to work, basically ...

and we could not help it.

We just wanted to produce the best possible record

I do not want to put salt on the wound ...

but Joe was out of control.

It appeared at odd hours, and ...

Sometimes, I could sing. Sometimes not.

In a strange way, everything is on the disc.

We were cutting the tape ...

a little bit of each shot, and so we assembled the disk.

And Joe approved it, but that we need ...

to get the best out of him at that time.

Because I was somewhat confused.

It was a giant plush bear.

I was disheveled, with my hair totally disheveled, but ...

for me, it did not radiate anymore what good will and sweetness.

After recording the album, Jim said: "And if we play live?

Two or three years ago I do not sing on stage. "

It is not so great to remember this ...

but it was the Roxy ...

and they had only organized it to introduce Joe ...

and show that he had returned.

And, just before the weekend, a friend of Joe's appeared ...

with whom we knew that used to get drunk ...

and we try to send it to Palm Springs or something like that.

We offered you a free weekend in Palm Springs ...

and he said: "No, I want to be with Joe."

And Joe appeared without being ready to sing.

It was a raw concert ...

because I remember that he came on stage ...

I was in the middle of the stage ...

and he was slowly swinging. And I ...

And Joe does not sing. Does nothing.

Single...

I am going to tell the truth.

I had a bottle Brandi Napoleon in his hand.

And the room was full.

He did not sing, so I ...

And he still did not sing.

The night ended with him sitting ...

in the middle of the stage, and the concert is over.

He ended up on stage, in a fetal position ...

and everyone cried and they felt sorry for him.

There were very famous people. I do not want to give names ...

but that concert It was a colossal failure ...

and I asked them to close the curtain ...

and they will forget about it.

They all disappeared in the night ...

and Jim Price came out and said:

"I do not know what you will do, but I will go fishing "...

and I think he did that, because it disappeared about two years.

For the industry, He had self-destroyed.

In front of the whole industry, that he had gone to see his return.

It was a period incredibly tragic for him.

I was going to an airport with Billy Joel ...

and it sounded "You Are So Beautiful" on the radio.

CO-FOUNDER WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL

And Billy said: "It does not matter how many times do you consider him dead ...

he keeps coming back. "

I remember that I thought: "It's like a cockroach."

Joe Cucaracha

I did not say it in the bad way, Only you can not kill it.

I did not know where I was, I had not known about him for years.

I was in my car, without a penny ...

and suddenly it sounded on the radio ...

"You Are So Beautiful".

And I started to cry.

It was fantastic.

And at the end of the song There was a magic note ...

in which it says: "You are so beautiful to me".

And as soon as it reaches the note ...

but it comes in a way ...

Which defines everything that had happened to him.

Thank you.

It was weird, because I was going through a stage ...

Vomited on stage almost all the nights, at concerts.

It was something humiliating ...

have to leave in full song Behind the scenes...

throw up and go back

I felt comfortable enough to ask...

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

why he vomited at concerts ...

why the press said ...

that Joe's career it was over ...

that he was a disaster, who lived intoxicated ...

who cheated his fans because he did not sing ...

or was not able to to sing as it should.

And you had to answer that, because he charged people ...

I wanted to see him sing, not see him drunk and unable to work.

WHAT HAPPENED WITH COCKER?

They showed it, basically, with that image ...

of drunk artist, drugged, dragged and unreliable.

Jerry Moss said to get you out back to the tours ...

It was very difficult, after of so much rest time.

I was worried that he would make me an alcoholic.

He asked me to go and do a checkup at a hospital ...

and the doctor was three days without letting me out.

I did not have anything

He came to my house in San Francisco ...

and he appeared, alone, with six bottles of Heineken beer.

He sat down to drink and talk.

Everything right before your concert of that night in a club.

I could not believe it.

That, of course, made me say ...

"You are enjoying many beers before the concert, right? "

And he said: "It moistens my throat."

Basically: "It's a professional tool."

"As you say, Joe, you are the artist."

They interpret too much of the album ...

INTERVIEWER

and they say that you chose songs ...

of confession, that expose you.

Those things. Do you think that?

If I had composed those themes, I would say yes ...

but as it is the material of others ...

I can not interpret it like that.

SINGER - COMPOSER

WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK

Michael Rosenfeld called me, that he was his lawyer ...

who said: "Joe needs help, a representative ...

someone to take care of him.

Are you interested? ".

And I remember the first time I went to his house ...

I was in Hollywood.

REPRESENTATIVE

There were 20 people who lived in his house.

And he was drunk under the piano.

I was out of my mind, I paid everything ...

and did not earn any money.

And those people encouraged him to drink and be drugged ...

and I knew that my first mission ...

It would be out of all that.

The thing was scary in Nichols Canyon, right?

Nine or ten drug traffickers they could arrive instantly ...

because I was very close to Hollywood ...

and they all came ...

"Can we use the piano?" They rehearsed.

It was ridiculous.

In my absence, they learned to take out the window and everything.

- No ... - And they came in.

I remember that one day I arrived ...

and they were all sitting in the room ...

and I thought: "This is already half rare".

If I had continued like this, I do not know how much he would have remained alive.

The number of drinks and the drug was tremendous.

Good evening, ladies and ...

JERRY MOSS RELEASES COCKER OF YOUR CONTRACT WITH AandM RECORDS.

ANNOUNCES A SUPPOSED DEBT FOR $ 800,000.

I thought I needed to start over, and I talked about that with Jerry ...

and I told him that ...

I needed to cancel the debts, and Jerry agreed.

He said: "Well, do it. Luck."

I said, "You are very brave."

We had good and bad times with Joe.

When it's okay, it's incredible ...

but take it to that It is not easy.

And I trusted firmly in Joe's talent.

Over the years, I had arrived to know him well, he believed in him ...

but Mike said, and I agreed, I needed to go somewhere else.

When planning to put together a band ...

to get him back to work, I did not want to call ...

Some rockers ...

that they were lost in the world of rock.

So I found a Boston band, the American Standard Band.

They were good musicians, good people ...

they were honest, they did not drink, They did not do drugs, nothing.

I remember clearly that we were playing in a club ...

in Worcester, Last Chance Saloon ...

and I had seen Woodstock a few days before.

And suddenly, Michael Lang came in.

And I said: "I know that one."

I took Joe to meet them.

I was a little lost, but it went well.

They decided they wanted a younger group ...

without any baggage, I think.

But we always remembered ...

that we could not let Joe I was with people who did him wrong.

The plan was quickly frustrated, because they joined the band ...

Bobby Keys and Nicky Hopkins ...

that came from the Rolling Stones.

So Joe now had little friends.

Welcome to Australia.

Thanks, Ian.

How does it feel to return in a band like Joe Cocker's?

I had to make concessions.

I knew that the basis of the band It had to be quiet ...

Correct, something innocent.

But I also knew that, for Joe and the world in general ...

if we wanted to present it in the right way ...

we needed them to accompany him some heavy weights ...

with whom you felt comfortable ...

so he does not feel I was going back to high school.

And, to a certain extent, it went very well.

If the rest of the band I would have been trained ...

for people like Nicky and Bobby, It would have been a real disaster.

I think Joe would not have been able relate to the band alone.

I needed guys to be with.

Hello, Mabel!

We agreed that if he got drunk before a concert ...

I would cancel the concert.

We soon discover, and I confirmed it over the years ...

that the least you should tell Joe It is that I do not do something.

Joe was an unstoppable guy.

If I wanted to drink, I was going to drink.

If he wanted to get high, he was going to drug himself.

And, if someone said no, I did it even more.

Joe was not grumpy, I did not have diva behaviors.

It was not like that. We were all together in that.

A lovely guy. We used to say ...

that our square meter on stage it was sacred.

You can fuck us out, but not here.

He was very strong, and his voice was coming back ...

the concerts They painted very well, and ...

It's not like I had alcohol at hand, but it was close enough ...

and he was stronger and could give a better concert.

I recorded the concerts ...

and I managed to sign with a record company thanks to those recordings.

When I moved to Santa Barbara ...

I rented a house from Jane Fonda.

At that time, I did not have a great reputation.

In fact, they had sued him for a house ...

in Malibu in which he had Hosted and that had been destroyed.

But I was a fan of Joe.

DIRECTOR JANE FONDA'S CAMP

I was dying to know him, so I did my best to bring it ...

and I was the one who spoke with your representative at the time ...

and I said: "Maybe, if it offers a good deposit ...

We can reach an agreement".

It was lovely.

It was very sweet ...

He was a very nice man ...

and, during the next six months ...

we became very close friends and we started going to dinner ...

and go out, I suppose, but then it would go ...

for six, eight or ten weeks, while going on tour.

Then he would come back and we would see each other ...

and we continue like this for several years.

The first time we saw her ...

I was totally surprised ...

BROTHER

for the kind of person he was ...

so organized and controlled ...

compared to people I used to be with ...

and I had never seen Joe ...

with a couple like that ...

but it was what he needed.

Joe had a very bad habit ...

and it was, in part, his English upbringing ...

always presented me as your "old".

And I hated it, as you will imagine.

And I said: "You know ...?"

"Say I'm your partner, or your special person ... "

In the end...

He started doing it more in joke, to make me angry ...

that for another thing.

But I will never forget when he proposed to me

We were in Australia, and he said ...

"I guess I'll have to marry you ...

if I can not say you're my old one. "

And he said: "I'll say you're my wife."

And that was very sweet.

After many years, I was a person again ...

sure of herself.

It was like seeing someone come back to life.

Someone you knew that was going to the other side.

On tour, is it just work or do you have fun too?

No, we have a lot of fun.

That is the irrigation, have fun too.

With many singers, you think: "They sing only in tune."

But Joe had an instrument, and we value it.

We understood it

"Nobody sounds like that."

For me, it was pure soul, whatever that is.

DISC PRODUCER

Pure heart. I think I could not sing in no other way.

Someone described it as "the original man" ...

what is man ...

How would you like to sound to the common guy ...

after three or four pints.

For me, it was ...

SOUND ENGINEER

as a jazz singer.

He got inside ...

of the piece of music he sang.

It seized him.

Your voice has something special.

If it were not indefinable ...

everyone could do it, I suppose.

Let's go back to number 25 With a song...

destined for number one, sung live by a man ...

that does not visit the program for 15 years.

We received Joe Cocker, with Jennifer Warnes.

They called me for a film, Challenge to destiny ...

and they wanted Joe to sing the subject of the title.

We were on tour, and Joe did not like it ...

Stop the tour to go to record.

He hated being asked to do it.

He thought, at the time ... I did not know if it was the best.

At last he found the moment to go to the studio ...

and he said: "Joe, we are here.

The first time I heard her ...

He took it out of a bag and reproduced it.

And I knew immediately that it would be a success.

And he nodded.

I think he knew it too.

IN NOVEMBER 1982, THE THEME IT CAME TO THE FIRST PLACE IN EE. UU

IT WOULD BE THE ONLY SUCCESS OF COCKER ON ARRIVING AT NUMBER ONE IN EE. UU

Something we can do ...

We'll just put Joe, to see how the song started

Listen to improvisation.

SOUND ENGINEER

It sounds like a squeak in his voice.

We had always searched a Ray theme.

I think we were flying with Charlie to the Angels...

REPRESENTATIVE

when I realized. "Unchain My Heart". Perfect

I admit it to Michael Lang. I would like to be able to attribute it to me.

ALBUM PRODUCER

Because it's the show ...

and you usually attribute all you can.

They said Ray is a genius for ...

That word has been mentioned a lot.

For me it is a god ...

but yes, he's definitely a genius.

They always tell me: "Do not you think it sounds like you?"

And I say: "If so, It is the best replica of the world. "

And it is serious.

God bless you, Ray.

They were brothers of soul.

Ray always said: "This boy sleep with my albums. "

And it was true!

I always went back to Ray Charles.

REPRESENTATIVE MANAGER OF GIRA

I was going back to Aretha, to Donny Hathaway ...

I studied them.

He loved blues, It was the only thing he heard.

I had a great voice and instincts for the blues ...

SINGER AND COMPOSER

that were impeccable.

- Come on the microphone. - And the falsetto ...

I always wanted to sing like Ray Charles.

He was my hero. For me, I had the best voice.

SINGER AND COMPOSER

Many thought the same. Ray Charles was the best.

We all wanted to sound like Ray Charles.

The only one who approached him It was Joe Cocker.

What type!

See Joe in the studio It was like watching a concert.

It was the same movement, as if he were on stage.

He sang with every gram ...

of blood, sweat and everything I had.

Joe could make an entire album of other people's songs ...

and it could be a great album ...

because when he sings a song with arrangements made for him ...

It is something totally different.

The theme takes on a life of its own.

It's an honor when someone of that quality makes your material.

There are not many people of that quality.

It always has emotional impact.

Very few singers ...

they were successful singing the material of other people ...

so it is necessary ...

a talent particularly extraordinary ...

and Joe certainly had it.

MURO ​​DE BERLÍN - 1988

HOW CUTE IS BEING FREE!

CONTROL POINT ALLY

I started thinking about the twentieth Woodstock anniversary ...

and it occurred to me organize a concert ...

in the Berlin Wall, on the other side of the wall.

There had been concerts in the Reichstagsgelände ...

that it was a huge building on the western side of the wall ...

and Michael Jackson and other stars they played there ...

but the guys on the eastern side They were close to rebelling ...

just to hear the music.

JUNE 1, 1988 EASTERN BERLIN

The army armed the place in East Berlin.

One hour before the concert, there was no one.

An hour later, There were about 200,000 kids there.

THE NEXT DAY, JOE COCKER PRESENTS IN DRESDE

BEFORE 85,000 PEOPLE.

IS THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL ARTIST IN PRESENTING THERE IN MORE THAN 40 YEARS.

THE PLACE OF THE DRESDE CONCERT IT IS CALLED PRADO COCKER.

After that, Joe he became very famous in Germany ...

and they adored him.

That was the basis of success of Joe in Europe.

Joe gave everything during those two hours of concert.

There were ten people or 16,000 ...

Joe came alive on stage.

In fact, it was like a trance on stage.

When I was on stage, He was someone else.

I was on the side of the stage, and Joe left ...

REPRESENTATIVE MANAGER

twice during the concert, and there I could say:

"Joe, how about the lights, the microphones?

Everything is alright? The bass is strong? "

We reviewed all that, and Joe looked at you like ...

I was in a trance.

He would turn around and come back ...

It dried and came out again.

He made me understand the implications of work ...

because it meant taking care of Joe.

And I had some idea of what that could mean ...

but, without a doubt, He opened my eyes.

It was up to me to control Joe, know where he was ...

make sure he ate and everything else.

As Pam would say: "Your other wife".

Because, when going on tour, he said: "Now it's yours, Ray."

Did you see those nights in which you can not face the world?

And someone wakes you up ...

and says: "Joe, You go on stage in five minutes? "

Good thing I have friends.

We were somewhere in Europe and ...

SAXOPHONIST IN THE TOUR

Michael added a couple of dates, moved other ...

and Joe did not want to do it.

I was fed up.

So he decided to make a change after that tour ...

and change your representative.

I received a letter from the lawyer.

And that was it.

I would have expected him to ...

will take the phone and tell me something ...

but once he did, I think he continued with his thing.

I recognize the work of Michael Lang, because he was responsible ...

that Joe was still alive.

Michael was the best.

I wanted him as an artist and as a person, and ...

I went beyond work.

Nobody goes through everything we went through ...

during all those years just for work.

But, well, I do not regret anything.

When he left Michael Lang, He never spoke to her again.

And the same thing happened with members of the band ...

and with other people close to Joe.

When I closed the door, I did not open it again.

He could be very passionate with some things ...

and very cold with other ...

especially with relationships.

It was very difficult to know ...

really know what was happening to him.

IN 1991, ROGER DAVIES BECOMES YOUR REPRESENTATIVE.

DAVIES HAD REVIVED THE CAREER OF TINA TURNER.

We were with Roger ...

and Roger had been with Tina Turner ...

and had brought her out of the darkness ...

and had returned her to the world, basically ...

as an international artist.

So we follow that path.

So we transform ... I'm not saying let's transform Joe ...

but we put more colorful clothes ...

we produced it more.

That took everything to another level ...

that allowed Joe to find the way ...

to become in an international artist.

IN 1994, COCKER BEGINS ITS WORLD TOUR HAVE A LITTLE FAITH.

SING IN 26 COUNTRIES IN FIVE MONTHS.

We lived on tour ...

we did 170 concerts a year ...

We killed each other.

MAD DOG RANCH CRAWFORD, COLORADO

During the 90s, he was on tour almost non-stop ...

and we had moved to Colorado ...

at that time, in '94.

But they were never more four or five weeks ...

what happened without coming home or me without going to visit him.

But that's how our marriage was.

WIFE

The 38 years we spent together.

Joe was crazy about the place.

He loved Colorado.

He loved to go for a walk, and we had our first dog ...

something very important to Joe.

He started gardening.

It became his passion.

Isolation, knowing that I could ...

leave through this door and walk to the mountains ...

I could spend days walking, without seeing anyone else.

And, if I saw someone, He was a neighbor.

It was just Joe.

Here he could forget ...

that was part of the music industry.

Joe was still drinking.

He drank a lot, and ...

It was very difficult for those around him ...

REPRESENTATIVE MANAGER

because the concerts were good ...

but some not so much.

I drank on stage, while singing.

And he could drink seven or eight beers on stage.

I remember that, as soon as he emptied the glass ...

an employee ran out ...

to return to serve him beer.

Between the lights, the stress and the heat ...

Joe vomited a lot.

It disappeared in the middle of a song ...

MUSICIAN

and ran back, and they were waiting for him with a bucket ...

so he could vomit.

And we measured ...

the concert depending on the cubes ...

How many times had I vomited ...

and how many times they had cleaned.

After the concert, we went out to eat ...

and he started drinking.

I've been in restaurants with him ...

and a bottle was lowered before the food arrived.

Then he asked for another bottle of Bacardi and I was still with that.

Sometimes ...

you had to control it minute by minute.

I had to have the key of your room.

Sometimes it was scary.

I never knew what I was going to find ...

when I entered that room ...

and sometimes it was ugly.

Joe did not drink too much here ...

when I was at home.

I knew that I did not like it ...

and there was less pressure.

But when I started to prepare for another tour ...

or worked on a new album and the pressure was accumulating ...

and there he drank more.

He had his demons.

Joe had demons who visited him from time to time ...

and it was getting dark ...

did not leave his room ...

or preferred to be alone and go for a walk ...

to wander around.

We told him that maybe I had to go to Alcoholics Anonymous ...

or to see a psychiatrist, look for some help ...

but Joe was opposed to all that.

He said: "No, I can control it alone".

"I can do it."

We were going home ...

and I was fine, and I thought ...

"Well, when he's here just drink with people ...

but it never goes to the extreme. "

And I forgot, until ...

the next situation.

We had a party here. It was the first of March.

And we were preparing to go on tour.

For some reason ...

Joe had started drinking that afternoon ...

and I was drinking non-stop.

By the time they arrived the guests, at about six ...

I was already quite drunk.

And, before we sat down to dinner...

I had to help him get into bed.

Pam gave Joe an ultimatum.

"If you do not control yourself, this is over."

And Joe controlled himself.

He called me and said: "This week I will stop drinking ...

so do not plan anything for me. "

"I'm going to try to do it."

I spent a year ...

as incredulous, thinking that ...

That it was not going to last ...

And I think I spent the second year ...

very angry with him ...

not because I did not drink, but because it was so easy for him.

Why I had not done it 15 years before?

Until I finally realized that the thing was serious.

"This is the new Joe. It's our new life.

It's our new relationship. " And I was very grateful.

Joe realized, after stopping drinking for a while ...

and Roger was very important to point it out ...

"Joe, if you succeed, you can be a great international artist. "

And he also realized ...

"I can sing 'Little Help' every night. "

And that was always the indicator, "Little Help" ...

by the cry of the end.

And I think that was a factor for Joe's sobriety.

When Joe realized that it did not reach the acute ...

to that scream, he had to do something.

ONE YEAR AFTER, COCKER CANTA IN A CONCERT AT COMMEMORATION

OF THE JUBILEO DORADO OF THE QUEEN ISABEL.

They wanted Joe to sing "Little Help" ...

that Joe did not sing outside of his concerts ...

because Joe needed 19 songs to warm up the voice ...

to be able to reach the end cry.

But the queen He changed his mind.

That easy.

He said: "It's my queen, I'm going to do it."

Joe's adrenaline worked, I think that helped.

Joe was proud to be part of of that, with all his peers ...

between Clapton and McCartney, Sir Paul ...

Phil Collins ... Everyone was there.

Joe was very happy ...

and felt that his heart I was still in England.

IN 2007, JOE RECEIVED THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

FOR YOUR SERVICE TO MUSIC.

FOLLOWED MAKING TURNS AND RECORDING DURING ALL THE DECADE.

In Colorado, our neighbors ...

and who became our friends they knew their history ...

but they were not obsessed with her.

They did not care.

They cared that we were good neighbors ...

that we were part of the community ...

and Joe liked that a lot.

He liked to be part of the community.

He liked that his friends were the plumber and the electrician ...

the real estate agent and the town's lawyer ...

I adored them ...

and Joe grew up as a person thanks to that support.

He loved the air, the blue of the sky ...

He said: "Look at that sky, it's incredible."

And I think it made him happy. Very happy.

He felt satisfied ...

and he said: "I think I became in a mountain man. "

Your moment of greatest tranquility It was when he was walking with his dogs.

IN 2012, COCKER GRABA, WITH JIMMY WEBB, "THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS".

THEY HAD ALREADY RECORDED THAT SONG ALMOST 40 YEARS BEFORE.

I was on tour, I was seven consecutive nights of concert.

And he arrived on the eighth day ...

It is almost biblical.

He arrived on the eighth day ...

and recorded "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress "with us.

His voice reminded me of the flag of the Civil War.

It remains totally intact ...

but he was shot ...

and it's kind of frayed ...

Threads come out of the edges.

It was like a voice that had lived a war.

A voice that had fought.

A voice that never gave up ...

and that he will not give up today either.

I thanked him a thousand times for coming.

I kept hugging him.

I did not want to let go.

IN 2012, COCKER RECORDES ITS ALBUM OF STUDY NUMBER 22, FIRE IT UP.

IN APRIL 2013, INICIA THE WORLD TOUR OF FIRE IT UP.

We had a wonderful concert in Cologne ...

It was spectacular.

Everything went as we wished.

It looked fabulous, Joe sang well.

There were more than 16,000 people.

But, while that happened ...

Joe began to feel pain on the sides.

He left the stage ...

and it said: "Ray, It hurts a lot on the side.

I'm agitated. "

He was able to finish the tour ...

which was very heroic ...

because he was stubborn, he kept fighting.

Lorelai, Germany, we love you!

Let rock follow!

GERMANY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

JOE COCKER LEAVES THE SCENARIO FOR THE LAST TIME.

He came home on the eighth of September and ...

I had a very bad appearance.

I was totally exhausted ...

I had never seen him so tired.

It was Sunday. Pam received it on Tuesday.

On Friday, he was diagnosed stage IV lung cancer.

I do not know if I could ...

have been as strong as him.

He did not complain. Never...

He never said: "Why does this happen to me?".

In fact, he almost said: "Considering my background ...

and all the years that I spent ...

smoking and drinking, Why would not it happen to me? "

We did not say anything.

We said that Joe was taking a good vacation ...

but we wanted to be nominated ...

to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

We had pressed with all the power of Roger ...

with all the power of the record company.

We had fan signatures of all the world.

It is from September 10, 2014.

"To the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

As a member of the Salon since 1999 ...

I always kept hope ...

to see Joe Cocker as part of him too.

The first time I heard it, in 1969, I was inspired by the mere sound ...

of his vocal style, that was incredibly raw and deep.

In my opinion, nobody has been able approaching him since then ...

and he's one of the best vocalists of rock of history.

I hope you consider nominating him for the vote this year.

Greeting. Billy Joel".

Only for his performance at Woodstock ...

should be in some hall of fame ...

because it was transcendental.

It was a historical performance.

No this in the Rock Hall of Fame?

How is it possible?

I think Joe was so talented like any...

in the industry...

and in the history of rock.

I think his talent was unique, at the height of any other.

He was an interpreter, as was Sinatra ...

like all great singers, they were all interpreters.

They did it their way.

So my regards to Joe.

DECEMBER 22, 2014

I knew he was sick ...

but not that it was so serious ...

so it was ...

a very unpleasant surprise.

I was watching CNN ...

and a sign appeared at the base of the screen ...

that said something like:

"Rock singer dies Joe Cocker. "

The compliments were very warm ...

and the people were very considerate ...

so it was very moving.

It could be difficult, but everyone adored him.

All the world.

Those who had the privilege of knowing him ...

they know he was a man very sweet and generous.

He was a charming guy.

Impossible to get over it ...

And that I tried.

But now I accept it, that's what happened ...

and I was glad to be part of that, of course.

We were anxious to reach old age ...

and be able to travel alone ...

But hey, that's life.

Anything can touch you, right?

He was born to be a star ...

to command a band.

That's how he was.

What else was I going to do, with that look and that voice?

The Grease Band and I ...

We thank you all.

We will see us again. That beauty.

The awesome Joe Cocker!

JOE COCKER WAS 70 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED FROM LUNG CANCER

IN HIS HOUSE, WITH HIS WIFE, PAM, AT HIS SIDE.

DURING HIS 50 YEARS OF CAREER ...

RECORDED 32 STUDIO AND LIVE DISCS AND 68 SINGLES.

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