Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul
2017 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 794 VOTES · DIR. John Edginton
Overview
The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song, "A Little Help from My Friends". But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker's inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as "one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time" (Billy Joel's description). The film mixes Joe Cocker's own words, with rare archive. His wife (Pam Cocker) & family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker's story. The film has raw, historic, electric performance footage throughout. Extensive interviews of key people through his life include: Pam Cocker, Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone magazine editor), Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel, Rita Coolidge, Deric Dyer, Glyn Johns, and numerous others.
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00:00:54 Yeah, but I was so fortunate.
00:03:38 He'd got kind of a following.
00:07:32 If we didn't do something fast, we were going to get lost.
00:11:46 and I was sat on the outside toilet in Tasker road
00:16:13 I think Denny Cordell had sent a tape of Joe.
00:20:00 I wasn't privy to that, but all I know is that
00:23:07 Suddenly, instead of 25 people, there are 50 people
00:27:50 That's impossible.
00:30:59 There was a kind of innocence about him
00:34:22 And he took the control room door and flung it open
00:37:24 He ended up on the stage in a sort of foetal position.
00:40:47 Jerry moss was saying to get you back on the road at first
00:44:27 Cos the amount of drinking and, I'm sure, drugs was huge.
00:48:25 Nickys and Bobbys in the rest of the band,
00:52:27 The first time we ever met her,
00:55:37 We were on tour and Joe wasn't that excited about
00:59:48 And he would just sing with every ounce
01:04:59 just everything about him.
01:08:48 We, literally, were on the road
01:12:17 what I was going to find when I walked in that room.
01:15:26 you can be a major international artist"
01:19:57 It was like a voice that had been through a war.
01:24:56 and soulful vocal style.
01:28:42 A big thank you to Joe Cocker!
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