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Watch: Joe Cocker – Mad Dog with Soul 2017 123movies, Full Movie Online – The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield , catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song,”A Little Help from My Friends”. But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker’s inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as “one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time” (Billy Joel’s description). The film mixes Joe Cocker’s own words, with rare archive. His family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker’s story. The film has raw, electric performance footage throughout..
Plot: The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song, “A Little Help from My Friends”. But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker’s inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as “one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time” (Billy Joel’s description). The film mixes Joe Cocker’s own words, with rare archive. His wife (Pam Cocker) & family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker’s story. The film has raw, historic, electric performance footage throughout. Extensive interviews of key people through his life include: Pam Cocker, Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone magazine editor), Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel, Rita Coolidge, Deric Dyer, Glyn Johns, and numerous others.
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Uneven with some unforgivable omissions
Hard to believe that this documentary could interview core member Chris Stainton at length and make extensive use of music performed by the Grease Band but largely ignore who else comprised Cocker’s seminal band at the time. Seriously, the late great Henry McCullough (later of Paul McCartney’s Wings (Mach One) didn’t merit so much as a mention? The Grease Band was Cocker’s original backing band and backed him at Woodstock, then released a couple of albums after having been basically dismissed to accommodate Leon Russell’s desires for the Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Bad enough to have been treated so dismissively then but unforgivable in a documentary.

A regular Joe
My wife and I regularly play a double CD compilation of Joe Cocker’s best material. Never a prolific or even regular songwriter, he was instead, rather like the more feted and certainly more commercially successful Rod Stewart, an interpreter of other writers’ songs covering everyone from the Beatles to Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley to Elton John. His biggest musical hero was Ray Charles and it’s good to see the clip here of master and pupil together reminding us that the first recording Joe ever made was of the Genius’s “Georgia On My Mind”.

Elsewhere the film takes us back to his Sheffield roots with some fascinating footage of the time in the late 60’s when the now local-boy-makes-good returns to his hometown to escape the distractions of the music business. There’s no doubt however that the man had his demons, the usual dysfunctional duo of drink and drugs and while they unquestionably affected his behaviour and treatment of those around him, the picture emerges of a softer, gentler man than his wild man image might have you think. Even people he abruptly stopped seeing appear to have forgiven him, although it just may be no one wants to speak ill of the recently dead.

There are excerpts from many of his famous songs with his talismanic debut smash “With A Little Help From My Friends” omnipresent on the soundtrack. Among the admirers paying generous tributes to him are Randy Newman, Billy Joel and Jimmy Webb, three of the best piano-writers you could ever hear.

I was glad that by the end of his life, Cocker appeared to have found lasting love with his wife and peace in their mountain retreat in Colorado. From the footage of one of his last recorded concerts in Germany, where he was massively popular, he still had the voice too, up until the end.

How this hellraiser got all the way to 70 before dying would probably be a mystery to him too. This respectful tribute will hopefully encourage devotees and more casual fans like me to deeper explore his musical legacy. As they might have said in his native Yorkshire, he were a right good singer.

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Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 30 min (90 min)
Budget 335000
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Status Released
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Genre Documentary
Director John Edginton
Writer John Edginton
Actors Joe Cocker, Phil Crookes, Vic Cocker
Country United Kingdom
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