Joe Cocker: With A Little Help From My Friends
John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1969
Joe Cocker and the Grease Band were ending a performance they gave recently at the Whiskey in Los Angeles. As they went into their explosive version of Lennon and McCartney's 'With A Little Help From My Friends', one young female admirer, apparently driven wild by Cocker's amazing voice and insane spastic contortions, climbed onstage and delivered a little help herself to Cocker, which caused Joe to deliver the scream of his career.
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