@@garrisonmyles5045As are many hit songs from the music industry. Performers are judged by their performance not purely on their writing skills. What is your point?
I was 13 when i first heard this song. Wooow, sounds even better today. Im 44 now. Joe Cocker. What a soul, what a voice. Thank u sir Joe,for everything
Not only is this one of the highest moments at Woodstock, it is one of the best moments in music history. Joe left everybody's faces melted all over the place, in a big psychedelic puddle of facelessness.
My late father would have turned 78 today. I can't even count how many times we watched this performance together. Rest in peace dad, you were a good man who was always there for all of your friends ❤
My Dad passed away around 4 years ago and the same here. We watched Joe Cocker perform this song so so many times and it just gives me hope in humanity, humility, and good music still to this day. God bless all and God bless good music. We get by with a little help from our friends. This gives us all the power to overcome 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thats how you perform a song live.. You put your heart and soul into it... The only person to perform a Beatles song better than the beatles themselves did
No auto tune, pure talent, great lyrics and back then everyone was trying to get along and stand up for each other. We embraced diversity and were kind to each other unlike today.
La musique la chanson n'a aucune frontière, aucune couleur, aucune religion... C'est l'unité fraternelle et mondiale 🎸🌏☮️✌️🕊️💖🙏 ..je pense que cela c'est ce qu'inspirait Woodstock et la pensée Hippie😍
@@shayshay9764 There is a performance by Janis J... about the same era or even the same week-end... but sure, this one makes for a life worth. Joe Cocker forever in my heart cuz of this. Later on in the '70 i was reading about shamanism, and wow, i think Joe C was the real thing...!
Music wise great days I was 19 when this was made. I was at the 1969 and 1970 Isle of Wight Festivals England also did the 70 Bath Rock Blues & Jazz Festival.
@peter stclair he always looked like he was having a seizure while singing. Even in advanced age. I would bet money that he was flying super high during this performance though.
I was just actually digging up Joe Cocker's songs now because my throat is raw and I was joking I (a female) would sound like him today. I can FEEL that scream.
This is actually true. You know he was completely out of his freaking mind and still killed the song. His performance was just him riding the wave, wish I was that cool.
I love how he looks distracted at the start (in front of 400,000 people) - “Uh, we’re gonna leave you with…the usual thing…this title just about puts it all into fohcus, it’s called With A Little Help From Me Friendzz, remember it…” 54 years later, we do.
This performance is probably the best of the festival along with santanas soul sacrifice, even though lots of people did so good but those two really stand out to me
I grew up in the 80s and 90s watching The Wonder Years with my dad and hearing this song in the opening credits every week. This was his youth (family lore says he was at Woodstock). Hearing this song now brings back those memories of my own youth and that shared experience with him. He passed away a little over a year ago, but the power of this music allows me to reconnect with him across the ages. I love you, dad. Rest in peace. 🙏
Wonder years is where I 1st heard this as a kid. Fell in love with the emotion instantly. Didnt realize this was a cover of a Beatles song until years later.......not always the case but hands down this is the BEST Version!!!
High or not, this is the most soul felt performance ever, hands down. Joe felt every single vibration of every note every time he took the stage. And here at Woodstock he owned the world for a few minutes.... and ...... just....... WOW !! I can't even invent a word to explain it. It's an emotion anyway, not a word.
i would say he is one of the highest humanbeings at that moment in that time, no one else in the world was as high as him that one point in time on that day.... i hope he is okay today now in 2023, i see him drinking juice with ozzy osbourne in the morning both trembling as they pick up the glass while orange juice flows off the side scattering all over the floor, both of the grown men looking at each other in each others eyes laughing secretly as if they are the only ones who know why the orange juice is on the floor, its like a cult those drug addicts. but i get them, they laugh to not cry right? why else would they laugh? wait is he still getting high? this guy must be what like... 85 years old now? i should have started this comment assuming he was dead because i went off a couple of lines him being alive, and it could be that he is not alive. i wonder where hes at. poor guy. atleast he could sing though thats good for him and the world including you and me because we both watched the video and heard the song .
Americans may have “invented“ rock ‘n’ roll, but the Brits took it to a whole new level. I feel so lucky to have been a teenager during those times. This is an awesome performance. 💕
I don't think the performance owes anything to drugs. It was very "on point" and professional - however he acted. Like Paganini. Had the privilege of seeing him at the Tower Of London fifteen years ago - exact same mannerisms. Came from the core, not chemicals.
This song is my step Dad in every way he is dying of lung cancer he's an aged hippy it is him in every way it brings me to tears but I love it as the epic tune that it is and a massive tribute to my dad love him always❤❤❤❤
I understand your comment but I have to respectfully disagree. I think most musicians from this Era and the 70s put pretty much all they had into their music
Broke my heart to it's inner core upon hearing about his passing. I fondly played "You are so beautiful" by him at my mother's funeral memorial. My relatives thought I was insane,I paid for it so I believed that I had a right to do what I wanted. Afterwards there was hardly a dry eye in the building, including the funeral home workers.
It's your mum your choice, what a beautiful tribute. I recently lost an auntie and her brother played Landslide by Stevie Nicks before the eulogy and it set us all off. I'm sorry you lost your Mum.
No matter how many times I watch this performance, i’m always left in complete admiration. Joe gave everything he had. His whole body, mind, soul and heart was committed to the song, and the message of togetherness. The message that “puts it all in to focus.” RIP to one of the greatest singers and performers ever. You left the world a better place than you found it.
Look up his last concert, in Seattle. My daughter and I had good tickets to it. But for a reason I don't want to remember, we didn't make it. But we can watch it on TH-cam 😁💯
Fuck that hall of shame... Joe still brings tears to eyes generations all over the world and his mentor Bro Ray Charles himself was one of his biggest fans... Now that's a legend
Joe Cocker's performance at Woodstock was absolutely transcendent!!! If I could time travel I would be there to witness this live!! Such heart and soul!!
It was the first time I saw Joe Cocker performing a Beatles song in the movie Woodstock. The style was completely different. It was so special. I was deeply impressed by Joe Cocker's complete devotion at that time. The atmosphere was hot. I still can't forget it to this day. It was so good. It was so good.
This goes down in history as one of the greatest, signature stamped performances ever. I was 14 years old when this occurred, and by the next summer, was playing this version on my guitar. What memories...
then 400k people looked at each other & said WTF?? that was FANTASTIC!!!! there still saying it 54 years later.one of the greatest performances in rock history.it still gives me cold chills.
To think that half these fuck nuts rolling in the mud became the front line storm troopers in the Neo Con Ronnie Raygun revolution. Good job boomers. Thanks for the endless and pointless wars and a soul crushing national debt. Long live the dream.
What I didn't realize before is that several members of Joe's band in this performance went on to play with other notable musicians. Henry McCullough went on to play guitar for Paul McCartney & Wings, while Chris Stainton (who was magnificent playing organ in this song) later was keyboardist for Eric Clapton. Fabulous musicians, every single one of them.
This performance will never be topped, Its perfection! The passion and raw emotion that went into this amazing one of a kind performance leaves nothing on the table. Never seen anything like it and never will. I would have loved to grow up in my teenage years in this era. What a lucky generation! Joe Cocker absolutely killed this and sung it from a place that todays performers will never be able to duplicate. Everytime i watch this video im lost for words. R.I.P. you may be gone but never forgotten your legacy will always live on....
You got that right I replay that in others of Woodstock there was nothing like it and wished I could have been there that I was 16 years old at the time and my folks would never allow the trip from Oregon to there anyway love it all- memories are awesome and Unforgettable
This performance brings me to tears not every time I listen but every now and then it just pierces me a certain way. The feelings that music musters in me is probably the thing about my life that I've gotten the most fulfillment, education and reflection on myself and my existence from. Endlessly grateful for music
It’s so nice to see other people say it’s so emotional it brings them to tears! I remember when The Wonder Years made its debut and my Daddy getting so excited over the theme song they’d chosen. Joe knocked this one way out of the park and it’s made me cry since I was a little thing and I’m 35 now. This song penetrates your soul from the first time to the 1,000,000 time you hear it!
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Holy sh*t! Is this not the best performance of all time!? The deep soul and passion of Joplin, but there’s something more! Only thing holding him is the background singers… my gosh the soul and heart! Absolutely beautiful and one of a kind
There's something totally unique about this performance. I get a feeling I never get with any other piece of music, of any genre. It's explosive but yet somehow very sensitive. It doesn't force itself upon you but invites you with a warm and firm hand. For once the theme is not about romantic love but about friendship, in the most sincere way. It lifts your spirit from the darkest depths.
I was actually to the left of the stage, on that sunny Saturday afternoon after so much rain, Joe Cocker was incredible at this oh so special moment with this song with 10s of thousands who suddenly were no longer just strangers.
@@reefermadnness It was rock magic so hard to describe. "We" felt fragile at first with the bad weather and more, but there was a coming together that seemed to gradually draw almost everyone in, the music sure helped--Grace Slick and Saturday Afternoon--The Band and Richie Havens I think later. So much more to say. In hindsight hard drugs soon taking over to much of the "scene" in months to come --listen to "Can't Find My Way Home" by Blind Faith-- changed a lot pretty fast. But some of the magic remains.
There will never be anyone who can come close to the energy and precision of of this man's genius. No one has a bravado like his.. so powerful. And he sang 7 songs before this finale!
deb, check this out, Joe opened for Led Zeppelin the night before he was here at Woodstock. My mom was there in the mud. She clearly remembers Joe Cocker and The Who, Alvin Lee`s Ten Years After, Santana, and a few others. Alot of it she does not remember. They were probably too stoned. My uncle went with her and friends right after he got back from Vietnam. Talk about culture shock!!?? He came from blood and gore to peace and love!
@@gib59er56 Wow that sounds wild. What a surreal experience, two different worlds colliding for that man. What a time to be alive, it seems like that era with Woodstock was definitely a pinnacle of human enjoyment. Can't wait till we have an era like that in our time. 😄☮️ Probably will happen when psychedelics become legal in the US.
Saw this an age ago, and my mouth dropped , can’t understand why this isn’t spoken about being In the top 10 live performances, pretty much flawless with so much soul and passion, RIP X
I whole heartedly agree. It’s literally the most vocally complex performance of it’s time with the absolute honor of being recorded…not the other way around
The background singers seem alittle nervous (understandably) but this is such a well rehearsed performance it is truly mesmorizing. This is truly a blessing to see/hear on my phone whenever (sorta) I want.
Of all the massive amount of music I have listened to in my lifetime, this is in the rarefied stratesphere of one of the greatest performances of all. I never tire of watching Joe pour himself into this wonderful tune.
There is absolutely no other performance like this in history. Best performance, vocals and feels of ALL time, hands down. I watch this at least once a year and I'm not even a child of the 60s. But damn, I wish I was!
I agree with you totally. I would also recommend the Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin vocals) rendition of "Ball and Chain" at Monterey. I would think you will appreciate that one as well. Just amazing. th-cam.com/video/X1zFnyEe3nE/w-d-xo.html
Spot on. I first heard Joes’ single version on the radio in ‘68 (Beatles only released it June ‘67 ) and it blew my 10 y.o mind - but this performance is another level altogether. I’d love to see it on an IMAX screen.
@@nmshine1474 I will check it out! Music just isn't the same anymore. Everyone has a song writer, so they sing songs that have no history or meaning. Their studios have vocal altering technology, so you don't even have to be talented to be a musician. Bring me back to the good old day!
@@rebeccagrimshaw9982 you are spot on with your assessment! I like some new music, but not the prefabricated stuff like you said. Give me The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Kinks, Janis, The Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd, and more like that, this new stuff is okay, but not heartfelt like the good old days. I have so many more to list but it would be a book! I love talking music though so thank you for this conversation!
It's 2023 and I been listening to this song by Cocker since 1968 and this one just rox the world out from under me. Back then, I didn't care for it compared to the Beatles. But now ? You can see Joe had more passion to it then dare I say the Beatles ? R.I.P. Joe.
@@nickname4486 Yes Woodstock. But I think he sung this song and "she came in thru the bathroom window" for kicks to his song list he'd play to. Bathroom Window might have been after 1969 ?
Woodstock captured the minds of all the young people at the time and even today. Even older people today as myself, Look back on this event as one of the most iconic times in American history. The word that comes to mind is PARTY! A month before this, the US landed on the moon. 2 Iconic events in American history, not to mention the Vietnam war was underway for 7 years already. Joe Cocker here is one of the most unique singers I ever saw! What a performance! The band, the band, the crowd, to have been there, wow!
"One of the most iconic times in human history." Yes, indeed. It really was. It was pure magic. I believe it was so infused with that sort of mad love energy; of course, because of the music at the time, but also because it really was the "first wave," which inspired that music. It played right through all these amazing artists at the time, and everybody felt it, but not all had the same reaction. It was a wave of something truly powerful, leading humanity to a tipping point of manifested change; change in the right direction: that is to say, it was a wave of pure Source Love that flooded all around the world with a lighter and higher vibration. And now that wave is building up again: People think it's all falling apart, and yes, in a way, they're right. It is, but that is the old lower vibration of human consciousness crumbling and falling into the sea, but just as the old is falling away, the new is building and gaining momentum and very soon this new and massive wave of Source Love and Light will come flooding in and with it humanity will be raised to an even higher vibrational density; an elevated level of human/ universal consciousness.
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@@thommysides4616 yes The Beatles wrote and arranged it. I don’t remember if it was a B side but it was on Sergeant Pepper album. But Joe did it better one of the few times they were bettered.
He was totally inside the music! Than he could improvise, scream, silence, and come back. What a perfect mix of power and harmony. He performed with everything he got. Left everything in this stage. One of the best performances ever! Thanks mr Cocker!
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This performance proves that Joe Cocker belongs in the Hall of Fame
Agree, except its a cover
@@garrisonmyles5045As are many hit songs from the music industry. Performers are judged by their performance not purely on their writing skills. What is your point?
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@@mauser8515 I'm a huge beatles fan but this will always be his song. Just like " watchtower" is Jimi's and "hurt" is Mr.Cash's
Oh you said it man✌️ and read my comment at the top. And Jimi took the Watchtower song, put in his pocket and fucked of with it!@@St.Maliki
One of the greatest live performances ever recorded, PERIOD!!!!!!
Eso bro !
You said period(.) But you put exclamation point!?!??!
Idk. Those backup singers were a little off. Otherwise it's pretty spot on.
The real female backup singers didn't show up, that's why you have the male guitarists singing the female vocals :)
Absolutely agree
This man became immortal with this song. Humanity may disappear but you will continue. Thanks Joe Cocker
ES un ser celestial por derecho propio! Su leyenda es inmortal!
Amen❤❤❤
Fully agree, can see this clip a thousand times.
I was 13 when i first heard this song. Wooow, sounds even better today. Im 44 now. Joe Cocker. What a soul, what a voice. Thank u sir Joe,for everything
for real.
Not only is this one of the highest moments at Woodstock, it is one of the best moments in music history. Joe left everybody's faces melted all over the place, in a big psychedelic puddle of facelessness.
Joe, we miss you
If they ever invent a time machine, I'm going back to see this performance!!!
Me too
I would also go to see jimmy
You would not get there; because time is man's invention and it is not accurate.
Had a few pills one night and not only did I see the performance I was one of the backing singers😝
Yes!
My late father would have turned 78 today. I can't even count how many times we watched this performance together. Rest in peace dad, you were a good man who was always there for all of your friends ❤
Sorry for your loss
My Dad passed away around 4 years ago and the same here. We watched Joe Cocker perform this song so so many times and it just gives me hope in humanity, humility, and good music still to this day. God bless all and God bless good music. We get by with a little help from our friends. This gives us all the power to overcome 🙏🏼🙏🏼
My late father was at Woodstock and saw this live. Rip pops. 🤘🏻
Bless you all! Your father's love carries on through this world!
God Bless you and may your dad rest in eternal peace in the arms of the lord….Peace my brother! ✌🏼❤️🙏🏻
dominating a beatle song like this is no easy feat...one of the all time greatest live performances. Fantastic!!
This is the definitive version. The Beatles were mid.
I consider them completely different songs at this point. They are both great. Obviously, Joe’s hits harder.
@@I922sParkCiragree. The Beatles was just a song. Cocker turned it into a message.
@@I922sParkCiragree. The Beatles was just a song. Cocker turned it into a message.
Yeah. This is one of those examples of a cover that supersedes it's source.
When words had meanings , singers had passion, and music had a special touch, pure magic.
songs today have images and not lyrics
Nós meus 71 anos de vida, ainda não vi uma performance de tamanha ousadia e perfeita.
Real tawk
Oh! So special a truly iconic performance - that was a concert and happening as a blue print for all future events but never bettered.
Entendo esse seu sentimento. Mas o saudosismo atrapalha a compreensão da realidade
Over 50 years later this performance still gives me chills.
yeah
Me too !
I was not even born yet when this came out 😅 but I remember the feelings I got the first time I ever heard it... Goosebumps ❤ so good!
yes, it does
I agree with ya brother. This is one amazing performance, glad I grew up in the time of great rock music.
Thats how you perform a song live.. You put your heart and soul into it... The only person to perform a Beatles song better than the beatles themselves did
My opinion. he did it "bluesy." The Beatles did their rendition more as a barely jazzy ballad
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It was a throwaway Ringo number by the Beatles. Cocker performed a form of alchemy in transforming it into this passionate maelstrom.
The Beatles song is good well written track but this is just so fiery and filled with so much soul
this version is FAR superior to the beatles ❤and yes I do know they wrote it!!
Joe Cocker said, "This song just about puts it all into focus" It absolutely puts it all into focus. Thank you.
RIP
If they don’t play this at my funeral… I’m not going 🏴
I'm doing the same fuck it!
👍😅
You don't hear him, you feel him. Rest Easy King.
True!!
Facts.
One of the greatest performances of all time.
Think all he ever dine was his best ....just the type o guy he was .dynamite..
fo shizzle
Agree
I've called this maybe the best ever performance I have ever seen since I first saw it in 1970 or 71 when the movie came out.
I agree.
No auto tune, pure talent, great lyrics and back then everyone was trying to get along and stand up for each other. We embraced diversity and were kind to each other unlike today.
Unbelievable performance. Iconic. Beyond words. Not bad for a working class lad from Sheffield. A fellow Yorkshire man. Perfection.
this performance is in the top 10 performances of any singer of all time..hell maybe top 5..to bad about the back ground singers lol
@@shayshay9764 It shares a part of the nostalgia now lol
La musique la chanson n'a aucune frontière, aucune couleur, aucune religion... C'est l'unité fraternelle et mondiale 🎸🌏☮️✌️🕊️💖🙏
..je pense que cela c'est ce qu'inspirait Woodstock et la pensée Hippie😍
@@shayshay9764 There is a performance by Janis J... about the same era or even the same week-end... but sure, this one makes for a life worth. Joe Cocker forever in my heart cuz of this. Later on in the '70 i was reading about shamanism, and wow, i think Joe C was the real thing...!
the best kind
I was 16 years old. What a great time to be a teenager. Music will never be the same again. RIP, Joe.
wow bro
You are correct! I can't even put those days in words. An amazing time! Peace.
Music wise great days I was 19 when this was made. I was at the 1969 and 1970 Isle of Wight Festivals England also did the 70 Bath Rock Blues & Jazz Festival.
@@colinmcnab6145 You're a legend. Did you see Taste?
Sad to say I agree. Of the same generation. Grateful I was were I was at the time.
This is what happens when music truly enters someone's soul.
@@jesusisimmanuel735 So good it became a interdiction to a popular sitcom
The WONDER YEAR'S
Music and lsd entrees the soul
The vibration is real.....
@peter stclair he always looked like he was having a seizure while singing. Even in advanced age. I would bet money that he was flying super high during this performance though.
Not just a world-class singer, but a world class air-guitarist!
Feels like he's singing his soul right out. Performance of a life.
E está com certeza
I think joe cocker and Santana had the best performances this song and soul sacrifice
That's acid 😂😂😂😂😂
Even after all these years ... that SCREAM is EVERYTHING !!!!! ... gone but absolutely not forgotten !!!! ...... thank you MR COCKER !!!!!!!!
Thank you Joe Jocker
I was just actually digging up Joe Cocker's songs now because my throat is raw and I was joking I (a female) would sound like him today. I can FEEL that scream.
Back to woodstock i go ✌
He became the song. He is the song. No better version, no better performance. Musically, what a time to be alive!
This is actually true. You know he was completely out of his freaking mind and still killed the song. His performance was just him riding the wave, wish I was that cool.
@@wildseraphim21 Yup!!!
@@jeannemacaluso162 mhmm
has never been matched
That was the best live song ever sung
"For the Grease Band and me self, thank you all once again. See you again. Beautiful." What an absolute gem of a performance. RIP, Joe.
I love how he looks distracted at the start (in front of 400,000 people) - “Uh, we’re gonna leave you with…the usual thing…this title just about puts it all into fohcus, it’s called With A Little Help From Me Friendzz, remember it…”
54 years later, we do.
This performance is probably the best of the festival along with santanas soul sacrifice, even though lots of people did so good but those two really stand out to me
I grew up in the 80s and 90s watching The Wonder Years with my dad and hearing this song in the opening credits every week. This was his youth (family lore says he was at Woodstock). Hearing this song now brings back those memories of my own youth and that shared experience with him. He passed away a little over a year ago, but the power of this music allows me to reconnect with him across the ages. I love you, dad. Rest in peace. 🙏
I use to watch the wonder years with my dad as well.
Я разделяю твоё горе и боль. ❤️
❤❤❤🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Wonder years is where I 1st heard this as a kid. Fell in love with the emotion instantly. Didnt realize this was a cover of a Beatles song until years later.......not always the case but hands down this is the BEST Version!!!
Феноменальна єпоха!!!
High or not, this is the most soul felt performance ever, hands down. Joe felt every single vibration of every note every time he took the stage. And here at Woodstock he owned the world for a few minutes.... and ...... just....... WOW !! I can't even invent a word to explain it. It's an emotion anyway, not a word.
Check out Charles Bradley covering changes by Black Sabbath
I completely agree, I will forever listen to this song with a smile on my face! :)
its bodashios! would be the word i would use
i would say he is one of the highest humanbeings at that moment in that time, no one else in the world was as high as him that one point in time on that day.... i hope he is okay today now in 2023, i see him drinking juice with ozzy osbourne in the morning both trembling as they pick up the glass while orange juice flows off the side scattering all over the floor, both of the grown men looking at each other in each others eyes laughing secretly as if they are the only ones who know why the orange juice is on the floor, its like a cult those drug addicts. but i get them, they laugh to not cry right? why else would they laugh? wait is he still getting high? this guy must be what like... 85 years old now? i should have started this comment assuming he was dead because i went off a couple of lines him being alive, and it could be that he is not alive. i wonder where hes at. poor guy. atleast he could sing though thats good for him and the world including you and me because we both watched the video and heard the song .
He’s dead.
The best air guitar player of all time, and what a voice!
Looks more like involuntary spasms than an "Air Guitar". Actually, its how Joe kept his timing.
He's throwing some serious air riffs there, better than Hendrix.
I think he moved to bass for the last couple of minutes.
the soul and passion makes me tear up... a perfect moment in history.
Americans may have “invented“ rock ‘n’ roll, but the Brits took it to a whole new level. I feel so lucky to have been a teenager during those times. This is an awesome performance. 💕
Stoned out of his mind & he still pulls off a fantastic performance we are all still talking about 50+ years later. X
That’s the best way to put on a performance. Add a little nature
I don't think the performance owes anything to drugs. It was very "on point" and professional - however he acted. Like Paganini. Had the privilege of seeing him at the Tower Of London fifteen years ago - exact same mannerisms.
Came from the core, not chemicals.
@@raywade6034 who are you trying to kid?
He swears that he never took any drugs
@@a.tanner8524 I dont think so either
Joe Cocker is the definition of feeling it. Playing air guitar on the stage at Woodstock
I don’t know if just anyone could get away with playing air guitar on stage
Ozzy would air guitar with Black Sabbath also, it looked cool
Greatest concert of all time. PERIOD
air piano to begin with to be fair!
@@damiangates9411 JA
This song is my step Dad in every way he is dying of lung cancer he's an aged hippy it is him in every way it brings me to tears but I love it as the epic tune that it is and a massive tribute to my dad love him always❤❤❤❤
Hey I hope he’s doing ok. I’m thinking of him in his hippie clothes grooving to this amazing performance 🌼 ❤️ ☮️!! He got some great taste
Aos 72 anos de idade, me arrisco há dizer que ainda não encontrei uma performance tão perfeita para essa música. Interpretação perfeita
One of the very rare times in history that a remake of a BEATLES song surpasses the original.
Along with John Farnham doing “Help”!😮
God bless Joe Cocker. Only Janis Joplin ever put so much heart and soul into a song. I miss them both!
Amen
my son named one of his dogs after Janis
Miss them too.
Probably the only 100% true comment on here. My they both be at peace and pouring their hearts and souls out on the other side with music.
I understand your comment but I have to respectfully disagree. I think most musicians from this Era and the 70s put pretty much all they had into their music
The only man who could sing while having an epileptic seizure...Amazing...
What? Seriously never heard that before - damn 🤔
@@rachellebelcastro911 It was a joke
LOL
Too funny!😀I think we all agree, Great song!! ✌
@@danieljohnson9135 Amazing song and amazing performer
Most underrated voice ever!
Underrated by who ? He’s a legend what are you talking about ???
@@mrcolin2u easy there fellow boomer, he's just laying compliments on the man.
Is he in the rock &roll h.o.f.? NO!!!
Broke my heart to it's inner core upon hearing about his passing. I fondly played "You are so beautiful" by him at my mother's funeral memorial. My relatives thought I was insane,I paid for it so I believed that I had a right to do what I wanted. Afterwards there was hardly a dry eye in the building, including the funeral home workers.
It's your mum your choice, what a beautiful tribute. I recently lost an auntie and her brother played Landslide by Stevie Nicks before the eulogy and it set us all off. I'm sorry you lost your Mum.
Thats a great tribute song
Thanks and Landslide is as powerful and beautiful as Songbird by Chrissie. I can't help but cry when I hear that one.
No matter how many times I watch this performance, i’m always left in complete admiration. Joe gave everything he had. His whole body, mind, soul and heart was committed to the song, and the message of togetherness. The message that “puts it all in to focus.”
RIP to one of the greatest singers and performers ever. You left the world a better place than you found it.
Thats what made him special, he always laid it all out. Woodstock just let him channel everyone through him.
AMEN !!!!
Look up his last concert, in Seattle. My daughter and I had good tickets to it. But for a reason I don't want to remember, we didn't make it. But we can watch it on TH-cam 😁💯
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Too bad he couldn’t write a song of his own. Guy made a career of riding the coattails of artists.
This performance alone should put Joe Cocker in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A shame they never admitted him in his lifetime. A crime he's still not.
I thought, “Joe Cocker not in the RRHOF?!? This dude’s so wrong!” Sure enough, you are, sadly, correct! A goddamn crime for sure! 😡
Fuck that hall of shame... Joe still brings tears to eyes generations all over the world and his mentor Bro Ray Charles himself was one of his biggest fans... Now that's a legend
Whoa boycotting rrhof.
Apparently it’s because so many of his songs were covers
Weird Al too.
Probably the greatest cover I've ever heard. Man what I would give to be there, his voice gives me chills every time.
I’ve watched this video about a 1000 times and never gets old when talent meant something RIP Joe
Joe Cocker's performance at Woodstock was absolutely transcendent!!! If I could time travel I would be there to witness this live!! Such heart and soul!!
Or acid
I made a road trip to Woodstock. It was so surreal. Did the museum. Unbelievable.
@@christophernaggs4018 Não viajei pra Woodstock,mas viajei ainda mais longe...,no ácido!
I was at that glorious festival 53 years and 1 week ago.lol
Saw the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour in Chicago early 70s (my parents took my brother and I). Leon, Russell, Chris stainton etc… Epic
The planets all lined up at this moment. That performance is pure magic.
😂😂
best comment ever
i think the back up singers were out of alignment aha
😊 Pure talent created pure magic...
Welch kraftvolle Stimme, für mich außergewöhnlich.
First heard this when I was 16. Just had a really shit day, listened to this again, feeling much better. Thanks Joe, you were one of a kind.
It was the first time I saw Joe Cocker performing a Beatles song in the movie Woodstock. The style was completely different. It was so special. I was deeply impressed by Joe Cocker's complete devotion at that time. The atmosphere was hot. I still can't forget it to this day. It was so good. It was so good.
I' an oldie. but it's so heartwarming to know there's younger people still appreciating this stuff.
I am glad I am not the only OLD FART that loves this
I am 69 just love my rock n roll
I'm 41 and i'm loving this stuff since i was 16
Yep, and God Bless us all.
And that's us All-Young and Old .
This dude had SOUL! One of the best performances at Woodstock.
He literally caused a thunderstorm, after Joe Cocker's gig, a thunderstorm disrupted the events for several hours.
Joe cocker and Santana had the best performances I’d say, Hendrix too
@@hippiecheezburger5457 Janis doing Work Me Lord breaks me every time. Can't forget the queen of rock n roll
It's a rare occasion that someone can sing an original Beetles song better than the Beetles.
The other occasion possibly is She came in through the bathroom window, by the same singer.
Bingo!
The "Beatles" cover was over the top too. I missed the beetles, haven't heard of them.
@@leejee88 no it was Ringo!
Day tripper by Jimi Hendrix 🎸
This goes down in history as one of the greatest, signature stamped performances ever. I was 14 years old when this occurred, and by the next summer, was playing this version on my guitar. What memories...
then 400k people looked at each other & said WTF?? that was FANTASTIC!!!! there still saying it 54 years later.one of the greatest performances in rock history.it still gives me cold chills.
hey Timkis u summed that up so well
Queria estar ai
To think that half these fuck nuts rolling in the mud became the front line storm troopers in the Neo Con Ronnie Raygun revolution. Good job boomers. Thanks for the endless and pointless wars and a soul crushing national debt. Long live the dream.
Yes we did! ❤
If only I could have been one of them!!!!!
"Joe Cocker rendition of "with a little help from my friends" is simply mind-blowing". Sir Paul McCartney.
As a huge Beatles fan, all I can say is, you got that right.
He was so great so much soul x
Applause & hats off to you, Sir Paul McCartney
His rendition is legendary! Gives me chills every time I hear this. Joe’s energy comes through the screen. So epic.
As Paul said he added the soul to this song
What I didn't realize before is that several members of Joe's band in this performance went on to play with other notable musicians. Henry McCullough went on to play guitar for Paul McCartney & Wings, while Chris Stainton (who was magnificent playing organ in this song) later was keyboardist for Eric Clapton. Fabulous musicians, every single one of them.
This cover is better than the original of the Beatles. Who agreed with me?
Me
The beetles are horrible and overrated
The beetles is one of the most overrated bands in history
Nope.
What makes it great is that it's very original and unique but it's not better than the Beatles.
This has healing powers.
Now you said it brother
YOU BET!!!
there was only one joe cocker ,saw him sing at woodstock '69 ,rest in peace brother!!!!
Ho la chance!!!
Yes 🐥
WOWWW YOU THERE THAT'S AWESOME 👌
I envy you.
For the first time in my life I‘m really jealous…
Thank you Father in Heaven ❤
This performance will never be topped, Its perfection! The passion and raw emotion that went into this amazing one of a kind performance leaves nothing on the table. Never seen anything like it and never will. I would have loved to grow up in my teenage years in this era. What a lucky generation! Joe Cocker absolutely killed this and sung it from a place that todays performers will never be able to duplicate. Everytime i watch this video im lost for words. R.I.P. you may be gone but never forgotten your legacy will always live on....
There are very few singers that would ever send chills up my spine but Joe Cocker did it with ease...
Canned Heat " Going Out the Country"
this is everything but ease
One of the greatest vocalists of all time.
He left his heart on the stage.
Absolutely magical!
You got that right I replay that in others of Woodstock there was nothing like it and wished I could have been there that I was 16 years old at the time and my folks would never allow the trip from Oregon to there anyway love it all- memories are awesome and Unforgettable
Melanciafan He left his heart on the stage....
He went back and picked it up though, cause he brought it to every performance!!!
THE best song of the 60s of all time..... his voice is iconic he was 21 my god 😮
This performance brings me to tears not every time I listen but every now and then it just pierces me a certain way. The feelings that music musters in me is probably the thing about my life that I've gotten the most fulfillment, education and reflection on myself and my existence from. Endlessly grateful for music
I could never watch this with dry eyes. Joe Cocker was fabulous. I feel every lyric in his song.
It’s so nice to see other people say it’s so emotional it brings them to tears! I remember when The Wonder Years made its debut and my Daddy getting so excited over the theme song they’d chosen. Joe knocked this one way out of the park and it’s made me cry since I was a little thing and I’m 35 now. This song penetrates your soul from the first time to the 1,000,000 time you hear it!
Facts, I GOTTA GET MY FRIENDS!!!✌🏿✌🏿💯
In 69 I put stars on my boots after this performance. ❤ Magnificent, sir!
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The all time greatest live performance ever given by anyone!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Our Help comes from Heaven ❤Peace be with Christ ❤
Help always comes from above no matter what love God first....
Holy sh*t! Is this not the best performance of all time!? The deep soul and passion of Joplin, but there’s something more! Only thing holding him is the background singers… my gosh the soul and heart! Absolutely beautiful and one of a kind
There's something totally unique about this performance. I get a feeling I never get with any other piece of music, of any genre. It's explosive but yet somehow very sensitive. It doesn't force itself upon you but invites you with a warm and firm hand. For once the theme is not about romantic love but about friendship, in the most sincere way. It lifts your spirit from the darkest depths.
Fantastic. Joe Cocker live for ever un My heart
And gives you shivers down the thighs......................... 😛
Tension and release. That’s what we call it in the arts, and they mastered it.
Absolutely the best explanation of the song
I think "friends" is actually a code word for drugs
I thought his boots with the stars on them were the coolest thing in the world when I was 17 and I first saw this!
This guy and his ability to improvise is straight genius!
Anybody who can't see it or doesn't see it wasn't even worthy of being part of Woodstock!
Anyone who'd put a down thumb on the magik of Joe Cocker has NO SPIRIT NO SOUL
I was actually to the left of the stage, on that sunny Saturday afternoon after so much rain, Joe Cocker was incredible at this oh so special moment with this song with 10s of thousands who suddenly were no longer just strangers.
Yeah , I think I see you there .
God bless you, messenger from this golden moment in history
please do tell more stories
@@reefermadnness It was rock magic so hard to describe. "We" felt fragile at first with the bad weather and more, but there was a coming together that seemed to gradually draw almost everyone in, the music sure helped--Grace Slick and Saturday Afternoon--The Band and Richie Havens I think later. So much more to say. In hindsight hard drugs soon taking over to much of the "scene" in months to come --listen to "Can't Find My Way Home" by Blind Faith-- changed a lot pretty fast. But some of the magic remains.
@@nsans2893 sarcasm?
That 5:00 scream will never ever be eclipsed. Roger Daltrey came close but still....this is rock history.
There will never be anyone who can come close to the energy and precision of of this man's genius. No one has a bravado like his.. so powerful. And he sang 7 songs before this finale!
God help me I love it so
deb, check this out, Joe opened for Led Zeppelin the night before he was here at Woodstock. My mom was there in the mud. She clearly remembers Joe Cocker and The Who, Alvin Lee`s Ten Years After, Santana, and a few others. Alot of it she does not remember. They were probably too stoned. My uncle went with her and friends right after he got back from Vietnam. Talk about culture shock!!?? He came from blood and gore to peace and love!
@@gib59er56 Wow that sounds wild. What a surreal experience, two different worlds colliding for that man. What a time to be alive, it seems like that era with Woodstock was definitely a pinnacle of human enjoyment. Can't wait till we have an era like that in our time. 😄☮️ Probably will happen when psychedelics become legal in the US.
Saw him in Montreal before he passed. A little older but still a legend
Alvin Lee!!!! Just spun RX5 - one of the greates
Props to Joe Cocker's backing band, The Grease Band. They provided a fantastic sound behind Cocker.
So true, vastly under appreciated
THE GREATEST LIVE PERFORMANCE OF ANY ROCK SONG ! ! Phew ! Incredible !
The greatest performance by Joe Crocker. ❤ I would have given anything to be at Woodstock. I was born in the wrong era.
Saw this an age ago, and my mouth dropped , can’t understand why this isn’t spoken about being In the top 10 live performances, pretty much flawless with so much soul and passion, RIP X
His voice alone in this performance was magical.
I listen to this just about everyday!!
I whole heartedly agree. It’s literally the most vocally complex performance of it’s time with the absolute honor of being recorded…not the other way around
@@SLS365 Ya and he was right fu..d up/hi.h....
So, I can't sing that well straight nvr mind happening...
He was HIGH so they said it didn’t count….
when I first saw this 80000 yrs ago, I thought it was a wild jam, now 50 yrs later I see what a controlled and on time performance it really was.
The background singers seem alittle nervous (understandably) but this is such a well rehearsed performance it is truly mesmorizing. This is truly a blessing to see/hear on my phone whenever (sorta) I want.
Chris Stainton on Hammond organ i think
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stainton?wprov=sfla1
Well said!
I am with you..got there some late hour next day full of rain on the thruway..thanks Gov. Rockefeller supplying help with all of this.
Lmaooo!!! 80,000 years ago
Of all the massive amount of music I have listened to in my lifetime, this is in the rarefied stratesphere of one of the greatest performances of all. I never tire of watching Joe pour himself into this wonderful tune.
An artist without ego.
Absolutely one of the best performances at Woodstock
Compared to what ?
@@franz909 they were all one of the best
@@franz909 “try to make it real compared to what”
There is absolutely no other performance like this in history. Best performance, vocals and feels of ALL time, hands down. I watch this at least once a year and I'm not even a child of the 60s. But damn, I wish I was!
I agree with you totally. I would also recommend the Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin vocals) rendition of "Ball and Chain" at Monterey. I would think you will appreciate that one as well. Just amazing. th-cam.com/video/X1zFnyEe3nE/w-d-xo.html
He was definitely in the moment
Spot on. I first heard Joes’ single version on the radio in ‘68 (Beatles only released it June ‘67 ) and it blew my 10 y.o mind - but this performance is another level altogether. I’d love to see it on an IMAX screen.
@@nmshine1474 I will check it out! Music just isn't the same anymore. Everyone has a song writer, so they sing songs that have no history or meaning. Their studios have vocal altering technology, so you don't even have to be talented to be a musician. Bring me back to the good old day!
@@rebeccagrimshaw9982 you are spot on with your assessment! I like some new music, but not the prefabricated stuff like you said. Give me The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Kinks, Janis, The Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd, and more like that, this new stuff is okay, but not heartfelt like the good old days. I have so many more to list but it would be a book! I love talking music though so thank you for this conversation!
Not many singers can better a Beatles song but this rates as a masterpiece to passion and expression.
It's 2023 and I been listening to this song by Cocker since 1968 and this one just rox the world out from under me. Back then, I didn't care for it compared to the Beatles. But now ? You can see Joe had more passion to it then dare I say the Beatles ? R.I.P. Joe.
its far far better than the Beatles version❤❤❤ !! but I'm a Stones fan😂😂 Beatles write some good songs but didn't always perform them the best! 😂
This performance was in ‘69.
@@nickname4486 Yes Woodstock. But I think he sung this song and "she came in thru the bathroom window" for kicks to his song list he'd play to. Bathroom Window might have been after 1969 ?
The greatest performance of all time
Up there with dire of straights at alchemy :)
Hell yes!!!!!
Janis Joplin at Monteray
Up there. But Hendrix was the best.
No one knew who he was! then we all loved him! rest in peace Mad Dog!!!
You never seen someone sing like that, it’s just a soulful and powerful performance I mean not just him but the band as well
Heart and Soul on full display! Magnificent!
Woodstock captured the minds of all the young people at the time and even today. Even older people today as myself, Look back on this event as one of the most iconic times in American history. The word that comes to mind is PARTY! A month before this, the US landed on the moon. 2 Iconic events in American history, not to mention the Vietnam war was underway for 7 years already. Joe Cocker here is one of the most unique singers I ever saw! What a performance! The band, the band, the crowd, to have been there, wow!
"One of the most iconic times in human history."
Yes, indeed.
It really was. It was pure magic.
I believe it was so infused with that sort of mad love energy; of course, because of the music at the time, but also because it really was the "first wave," which inspired that music. It played right through all these amazing artists at the time, and everybody felt it, but not all had the same reaction.
It was a wave of something truly powerful, leading humanity to a tipping point of manifested change;
change in the right direction: that is to say, it was a wave of pure Source Love that flooded all around the world with a lighter and higher vibration.
And now that wave is building up again:
People think it's all falling apart, and yes, in a way, they're right. It is,
but that is the old lower vibration of human consciousness crumbling and falling into the sea, but just as the old is falling away, the new is building and gaining momentum and very soon this new and massive wave of Source Love and Light will come flooding in and with it humanity will be raised to an even higher vibrational density; an elevated level of human/ universal consciousness.
When he said, “remember it” I wonder if he knew just how far in history this song would go.
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I was 21 years old at the time. Song written by The Beatles. This was the best performance at Woodstock which made Joe Cocker a legend. R. I. P
What? The Beatles wrote this??
@@bigbillmontgomeryjr2346 I think their version is also here on TH-cam.
@@thommysides4616 yes The Beatles wrote and arranged it. I don’t remember if it was a B side but it was on Sergeant Pepper album. But Joe did it better one of the few times they were bettered.
@@bigbillmontgomeryjr2346 It's on the Sgt Peppers album. Ringo sings it.
This is a great performance but I don't think it beats Soul Sacrifice by Santana. Just my opinion
He is and will always be for me one of the legends of 60’s and 70’s rock. He brings soul to rock and roll.
Over fifty years I still tear up. RIP Joe you were a true star.
I got goosebumps when I was 14 years of age, and still, 40 years later.
He was the GOAT in playing air guitar
His way of performing was so unique
It was like he would go in a trance
We miss you Joe and thank God for TH-cam
Heroin maybe?
Joe was an extremely high functioning autistic savant! A Golden Rey of the Son!
HOW GOOD WAS THAT MR SOUL THE LATE GREAT JOE COCKER WHAT A PERFORMANCE
It's so beautiful to be able to listen to music like this.
He was totally inside the music! Than he could improvise, scream, silence, and come back. What a perfect mix of power and harmony. He performed with everything he got. Left everything in this stage. One of the best performances ever! Thanks mr Cocker!
In complete control weaving in and out through the vibes
THE best cover of ANY Beatles song by a country mile!
I would have loved to witness this in person…such a peaceful time! 🙏🏾🫶🏾🙏🏾
i missing such kind of spirit these days. being human, having soul, feeling connected with others
...what u r seeking beautiful soul is already within u....just let it fucking rip friend... ✌️ ❤ 🙏 🌎 🎶 💃
This is a truly remarkable performance, if you don't feel it your numb!
BIG TIME 💯☝️♥️
My numb is just fine
Yes it was great but a little help with drugs too
@@adambinnie1332 for some but not really.