Needs a Little Help from 6 Friends

Or

Up Where he Belongs

(Props to Mike L)

 

Or

He Ain’t Feeling Alright

(An epithany shared with Mike L.)

Joe Cocker, gravelly voiced spasmodic British blues singer and cover artist, is now powerless to stop you if you elected to get up and walk out on him, having died of lung cancer at the age of 70. Feel free to leave your hat on for the funeral. His cover of The Beatles’ "With a Little Help from My Friends" became his anthem, as he performed it at Woodstock and for Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee, and it became the theme song to The Wonder Years. He hit #5 with a cover of You Are So Beautiful in 1974, and won a Grammy for the 1983 duet Up Where We Belong, best remembered from An Officer and a Gentleman.