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It’s one of the enduring images of 1969’s Woodstock Festival: a bedraggled Joe Cocker sweating through his tie-dye, spasmodically playing air-guitar and singing The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers ...
Cocker performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and charted 19 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including familiar recordings like 1968's "With a Little Help From My Friends".
Festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo are big business now, but that seems crazy when compared to 1969 artist fees for iconic Woodstock performers like Janis Joplin and Joe Cocker, who got $7,500 ...
On this date in 1969, the first day of a massive rock music festival took place on a farm in Bethel, New York, near the town of Woodstock. Some of the performers were Joe Cocker, Santana, Nash and ...
Despite these less-than-ideal conditions, attendees enjoyed 32 memorable performances, including Santana, Joe Cocker and The Grateful Dead. Woodstock cost nearly $3.1 million ($15 million today ...
Bobby Torres played the conga with Joe Cocker’s The Grease Band at Woodstock in 1969. It was an event that drew more people to a farm in New York than many, including Torres, ever expected.
In the summer of 1969, the festival to top all festivals took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York (the festival site was not actually in the town of Woodstock itself). The Woodstock Music ...
Singer Joe Cocker, whose huge raspy voice and even bigger stage presence thrilled rock audiences at Woodstock and beyond, has died. He was 70. His London-based agent, Barrie Marshall, told the ...
Elliott Landy, Joe Cocker, Woodstock Festival, 1969. Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Signed. Elliott Landy, born in 1942, began photographing the anti-Vietnam war movement and the ...