{"id":20716,"date":"2014-12-22T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=20716"},"modified":"2014-12-22T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T20:16:44","slug":"cry-me-a-river-joe-cocker-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/cry-me-a-river-joe-cocker-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Cry me a river: Joe Cocker has died."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Cocker is (was?) one of my favorite musical artists. Having said that I quickly add that while his work is well represented on my list of favorites, I also really don&#8217;t like a bunch of his other work.  But the stuff that&#8217;s good is great.<\/p>\n<p>He died today at the age of 70.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best &#8220;albums&#8221; you can get if you like rock and roll is Mad Dogs and Englishmen.  It&#8217;s Joe Cocker and a bunch of other great musicians of the day, live, double album. On that album you will find Feeling Alright.  Great song.  I remember Amanda being very disappointed when she learned that the relevant statement from the song is not &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling alright&#8221; but rather, &#8220;You&#8217;re feeling alright, I&#8217;m not feeling so good myself&#8221; (because you dumped me and found somebody else, etc. etc.).  Still a good song, though. And here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPgPjEY8W3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For many years, it may have been true that Joe Cocker was the only artist who did the Beatles every bid as good as the Beatles, though of course different.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky that I saw him in concert several times, including just recently.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and of course, his performance at Woodstock is legendary.  Let&#8217;s do that too:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRzKUVjHkGk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SO, Joe, now that you&#8217;re gone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Added:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/ll_embed?f=d68d6ae507eb\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Cocker is (was?) one of my favorite musical artists. Having said that I quickly add that while his work is well represented on my list of favorites, I also really don&#8217;t like a bunch of his other work. But the stuff that&#8217;s good is great. He died today at the age of 70. One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/cry-me-a-river-joe-cocker-has-died\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cry me a river: Joe Cocker has died.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[639,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5o8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}