The press hailed his first U.S. television performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969, and the following summer, Cocker played to half a million people at the historic Woodstock rock festival in ...

Fotos Internationl / Getty Images Joe Cocker could feel the music channeling through his body as he began his final number on the Woodstock stage ... formative moment in 1969, says Byrd McDaniel ...

Pam Cocker, who met Joe when he moved to Santa Barbara ... and his appearance at the first Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in 1969 and in the subsequent movie elevated him to star status.