Remembering Joe Cocker
 Joe Cocker May 20, 1944 – December 22 2014 |
I recall seeing him on stage after a long hiatus wherein I noticed that elements of his performance resembled some manner of physical recovery.
I entertained the idea of researching it — but his sincerity and happiness with the audience curtailed that ... for in the end all we get to be is who we are and it is those moments when our personal lights shine that we become truly relevant in the scheme of eternity.
So Joe Cocker passed in December some 4 years back and I sometimes look at that grandaddyesque later visage and compare it to that riff belting dynamo he was in a younger day.
How great a life it must have been to be allowed to traverse that performance spectrum available to him alone.
A true original in this world of cheap knock offs.
Rest in peace.