I am 74 years old this year, a survivor of the 60's and 70's, and Jesus this does take me back to some very cool times. Peace to you, and thanks for sharing this.
I'm three years ahead of you old son, agree with you completely, and weren't we so, so fortunate to have grown up and lived through what was without question the BEST era of Music... EVER !! 🙏 Peace to you brother !!
I think I said this elsewhere, but about 30 years ago, my Beatles loving son said confidently that NOBODY could do a Beatles song as well as the Fab Four themselves. I said, "Wait here", and went to retrieve a cassette tape of Joe Cocker, with his band and choir, and played "With a Little Help from My Friends." When it was over there was a moment of stunned silence before young Matthew said, "Well......nobody ELSE could." There are two great paths for musicians, to be the creator of music, or to be the interpreter. As an interpreter of the works of others, Joe Cocker was unsurpassed.
Leon was one of the most underappreciated musicians talented on keyboard and guitar a songwriter and basically a conductor all while looking like it was no big thing just another day RIP
When Sir Elton John got to give him his award to be in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame was just incredible 👏👏❤️Rest in Peace Leon Russell and Joe Cocker. Thank you for the memories 💞✌️❤️🌼
I'm 69 years young & I thank God that I got to grow up seeing all of these great artists because this time shall never come again. What a great ride. Thank you my LORD!
And me at 73 .. what a time to be alive .. the music of the rest of Our history was formed in those years .. we are all blessed .. we who lived though it all .. aamidst all the chaos that was happening .. peace.
Might as well throw my 2 cents in............while there's still such a thing as a cent! Born the middle of '53 and music is still at the forefront of my everyday living. Gone but never forgotten are the sixties and seventies for me. Lot of great stuff still out there today though.
The genius of the sound of this band is the huge choir/background singers. Rock deserves this wall of voices! And it just pushes the lead singer to his fullest. Love love love
I'm pushing 66 and That song had people in either Madison Square Garden or Hampton Colloseium(sp)[😂], IForget😢, Singing along SO Loud that you Could Not Even HEAR The BAND!!😡
I live Jo to extremes no body touches him. Must admit I like 👍 him with his hair long parted in the middle,OMG he brushes it away I hope I get to heaven & if so I will ask the Lord Where's Jo.? Before any one else that's left before me, I'm crazy 🤪 he's the most spell binding man I've ever witnessed.💯🧔♀️❤️🩹
DogDaam- 71 yrs old here, & this is soo good for the soul- something in the way he sings! 1st hooked on Joe Cocker was an 8 track tape on loop all night- darling be home soon. Since then something about Joe Cocker connects with a most content, joyful, deep vibration within in me. What a gift! Love, always.
----fantastic live "love and peace" concert---from which LP is this concert ?----Can you help me,Mark Southall ?---the hammond organ is so very wonderful here !! ---
Rita, Claudia, Leon!!! Plus!!! Great story about Burritos 2nd album recording next door studio while Leon was rehearsing this tour. Gram was too close to Leon to pay attention to his own band. Snowfalls in LA!🎉
70 y. o. here. These times were more than the music. Life, the music, the people, was real, genuine. Love was in peoples hearts. Music brought it all together. Never will there be a better time to have grown up. We truly were blessed to have lived and survived the times
Da, ilustrații muzicale veritabile pentru că acest băiat bun și iubitor de show,a avut o coloană sonoră cromatică de vibrații pozitive ale unor spectatori ce au fost duși la extaz și euforie!!!
Ray Charles called Joe Cocker "The Man with the Most Soul"! I love that and I never get tired of Joe just pouring his heart out in music...Leon Russel, you rock too!
@Barbara White Did you also know that Ray Charles thought Joe Cocker was gifted enough to do his hit song "Unchain My Heart" justice. Joe would do "Joe's" special spin on that song and make it his own, which of course Joe always did!
That reminds me of the time that Buck Owens, after winning some music award, was asked if it was his greatest honor. Buck said that it was not even close. His greatest honor was the fact that Ray Charles had covered two of his songs.
Leon Russell was the best music producer I ever played with he taught me a lot about performing and I owe my music career to this great artist and great man
It is great that all of the Fans of Leon Russell and Joe Cocker keep their music and memories alive. Thanks to all the Shelter People and Families for continuing to keep their Legacies going!
@@bobcostner2238 Saw Leon in a movie on TV about 30yr ago. It must have been released somewhere around the early 60’s. Can’t remember much about the move and only half heartily watched it. But did notice this guy in suit with short blond slicked back hair playing the piano and thought there was something familiar with his music. At the end of the movie it shows Leon playing the piano as the credits are rolling and lists his name. Searched the internet wasn't able to find anything. Will try your title. Thanks. Also saw Leon in concert about 50yr ago played a mean guitar during an encore…RIP
I'm 65 years old and to this day I only listen to music from those years and Joe I saw 2005 in Brussels and he's one of the most unforgettable artists from those years seen on stage and I've seen dozens of them . RIP JOE ❤
Two great Beatles songs immortalised by the one and only, late lamented Joe Cocker accompanied by his incredible colleague Leon Russel. Brings back memories of the late 60s that we still cherish to this day!!!
When Joe sang this song, you can see that he could feel every note with every cell of his body, it completely took over his entire brain. Unmatched and utterly superb ...
In 1969 I saw them at the Fillmore East. It was the night they recorded the live album. Trust me. It was one of the most enjoyable concert events I have ever witnessed. AND, it's documented on record.
The drums, the keyboard, the backup vocals, JC’s voice, LR’s guitar and hat, the bystanders and public and the dog. Like someone said before, one of the top places in the list of time traveling
Leon {RIP} was really that beautiful...only met him a couple of times, close up...in my youth. Deep, deep set eyes...beautiful. And Mr. Cocker & his entourage in Florida recording at Criteria, just people. Just "REAL" people... We've been so so very blessed over the years... Minstrels...are Angels in my mind, here to HEAL souls. Gratitude attitude... {RIP, babeZz!}🙏💔🙏
DELANEY AND BONNIE were there too....wow... so beautiful to see this. It was magic... and we went the Next day and bought all their albums.....then Mad Dogs and Englishmen came out.p in album format. 💘
The Greatest Rock Orchestra ever assembled! Saw this my 2nd or 3rd week in Navy boot camp, Great Lakes, IL., Aug. 1970 - 17 and fresh outta high school. The worm had turned for me the first time I heard Gracie singing "Somebody To Love", and it's been a beautiful ride ever since!
Jim Keltner on drums, prolific session musician for over 50 years, performed mad dogs and Englishmen, concert for Bangladesh, concert for George, played on all Travelling Wilbury albums, LEGEND 🎼 👏
What do you mean off his head?These cats were professional it's hot under those lights onstage Joe liked a pint or two beforehand. Not like Jimi or Janice.
---yes-- we need very much this hippie-peace-movement again on this planet--------onto a few years later of this concert-- "Peace and Love" hippie-movement all over the world had better not been stopped--Do you agree,.appreciated Todd Whitley ?
❤ I’m almost 70 yrs old now and am so glad to have grown up with music like this, and other, great artists and songs! It’s a shame in some ways that I didn’t appreciate most of them as much then as I do now. But, although many great ones have passed away (either from age or death at a young age for other reasons) at least we have the ability of being able to still watch and listen to them - thanks to the preserved recordings, videos, etc. like we do on YT and other sites 👍👏!
I am here and was there at that time. (not alas at this concert) Everytime I watch and hear this song it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Both these 2 songs are special when sung by JC but this band along with the famous backing singers and of course Leon Russell will always move me more than I can say in this chat. I am well over 60 and was listening to this 45 yrs ago. I sadly haven't found any new music to even touch this.generation and am just pleased to have been there to hear it then and appreciate it all the more now.
Joe Cocker had the perfect songwriting team in Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, as he is the only artist that make a Beatles song his own to such a degree, that you forget the original version. This band is probably the ultimate All Star Ensemble (Talent wise it has not been surpassed, from the vocals to the horn section, and everything in between)
I agree with all that you say except that Joe was the only artist that made a Beatles song his own .. etc. Wrap your ears around this .. duckduckgo.com/?q=DOUG+PARKINSON+DEAR+PRUDENCE&t=lm&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnU2DSrY9A6s And try this ..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KHnIvw7CCKk.html
100 YRS AGO - THIS SONG WAS OUR MANTRA! i'M 74 YRS, OLD, MY BROTHER WAS REVITALIZED BY THIS SONG. - HE DIED AT 35 YRS OLD (OR VERY CLOSE TO THAT AGE) LIVING IN OREGON AND BEING THE FREE SPIRIT HE ALWAYS WAS!
This brings back my youth!!! Leon Russell has always been a favorite. Joe Cocker, I simply adore. I saw him in concert in B’ham Alabama on Tina Turner’s farewell tour. I made my 12 year old daughter go with me to the concert. She gave me the cold shoulder until Joe started singing. She is 33 now and tells people the story of that night. Yes, she appreciates my insistence on her hearing them live now. Music is such a huge part of my life. My favorite song of Joes is, you can leave your hat on!! 😊💜💋☮️
He still sends chills up my old bones everytime I hear him !!!!!!!!!!! It still brings tears to my dimming eyes 😢 where have you gone old Joe C. 💔 we are all soon to become dust in the wind 😊🎉🎉🎉🎉
An unbelievalbe and never to be relived time in rock n roll. After all these years I can still feel the love on stage and in the auditorium blowing the lid off the place!!
Saw Joe, Leon & Johnny Winter in same show in Baltimore in the 70's I think. It was kind of a blur. Went to the after party, areal blast. Saw the Beatles live, David Bowie, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bee Gees, The Who twice. Those were the golden years for music. Nothing these days can compare, just sayin!!!
I saw Joe at Fiddlers Green along with Stevie Ray Vaughn, just b4 Stevie died in that crash. Then saw Joe with Buddy Guy at Red Rocks. Saw Leon in his white tux n top hat, at the Little Bear in Evergreen, CO, in the early 1990's i think. Then saw Leon after he was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Search Elton John Leon Russell, Rock n Roll, n watch that. Shows Elton's character, finding Leon destitute, and getting him back to performing. I saw Leon a few years after that, b4 he died, at an old historic theater in Denver. I feel blessed to have seen such talent in person.
I'm pushing 70 now and I'm glad I lived through this era. Joe, Leo, Stones, Russell Morris, and quite a few more I could list, PinK Floyd. The best in one generation. The modern music have nothing like them. Absolutely nothing. This is timeless.
Even I wasnt born yet when this people were performing this feelings, for me are real feelings that most people dont even want to recognise it..that makes my life sad, but are people that are still like you that it does feel it!! Good for us!!!❤
Having seen this performed in Plattsburgh, NY back in the Spring of 1970, I asked Rita Coolidge a couple of years ago about her recollections about it. She told me that that her recall of that time was (with a laugh) "rather foggy." I have to say, that concert was spectacular and a part of Plattsburgh's culture for some time afterward.
Once upon a time people felt music could change the world If we just sang loud enough and believed enough. This music is a spectacular example of faith.
It did change the world, at least for 30 years or so. I was lucky enough to meet alot of the Rock Legends. I heard a knock on my door at 7am Sunday morning, it was Jimi Hendrix's, also met Mick Jagger, Almond Brothers, Leon Russell, ZZ Top, all nice people.
Oh ffs Becky. You haven't looked for new music for decades probably. Listen to Black Pumas, you'll definitely like them. And if you want to hear more talented young people doing great music right now take a look at the channel COLORS (look for A COLORS SHOW) or Tiny Desk Concert here on RU-vid. I'm so freaking sick of that
Sure there is. There is always good music being made. It's a little harder to find, but composers have the likes of Alicia Keys or Chris Stapleton to admire, and Adele is arguably the equal of Joe Cocker as a soulful vocal virtuoso. But I get your drift. We are blessed to have witnessed such a sublime flowering of creativity. May it happen again!
This has got to be one of the greatest performances in R'n'R history - Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, a dog - Wow! Watch Rita Coolidge's interview about this concert. She said that many of the people on the stage were just there not playing an instrument or singing. Leon just wanted them hanging out. He is one of the most underappreciated geniuses in the history of modern music. Where is a time machine when we really need one? Remember, this was the next year after Woodstock. Mad Dogs and Englishmen indeed!
Great Joe, I miss you so much!!! I saw you some years ago in a wonderful concert in Toscany - Lucca Summer festival - where you played all your best songs, I liked so Much!! ,,, I only didn' t Know that it was the last time I Heard and saw you....... I' m so sorry you started away so early!!!!,,,,,,,May be somewhere , somehow I ' lll see you again and we will drink something together......Dear Joe!!!--- Ciao Joe. Paolo Maffei
As a 13 yr old with a big bag of free blue mesc I attended 3 different shows in 3 different cities and wore a back stage pass. Best time of my life. Unforgettable.
60 years ago I sat in the dressing room of the Esquire Club in Sheffield waiting to meet Vance Arnold & the Avengers. That night Jo was on the threshold of going pro. He worked for the Gas Board and went around asking everyone if he should pack it up and be a full time singer. He finally got around to asking the perplexed 15 year old sat back stage - What shall I do John? My father who was club photographer took some amazing images of Joe which I have treasured forever ❤️John Vincent
Wow, what an amazing rendition of Something...brings tears to my eyes. Joe Cocker's lead, the organ playing and gospel singers backing vocals! Holy cow! Devine beauty.
