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La vie mouvementée du chanteur de soul et de blues, feu Joe Cocker. Un ancien monteur d'essence de Sheffield, catapult? | dG1fRjhtT0g3a3FZZkk
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00:00I probably need my glasses to read this.
00:05This is okay, I can do this.
00:07I wrote this in 2014
00:10when I heard that Joe Cocker
00:13hadn't been inducted
00:15into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
00:17I was shocked.
00:19I mean, they even inducted me
00:21before they inducted Joe Cocker.
00:24So I was stunned to learn that.
00:26So I wrote a letter
00:27to the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee
00:29as a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
00:32since 1999.
00:34It has been one of my finest hopes
00:35to see Joe Cocker inducted into it as well.
00:39When I first heard him in 1969,
00:41I was very inspired by the sound
00:42of his incredibly raw and soulful vocal style.
00:46That became a watershed year in my life.
00:48That year, I attended the Woodstock Festival,
00:51bought the first Led Zeppelin album,
00:53and heard Joe Cocker sing
00:55with little help from my friends.
00:57I thought Joe was the most powerful
00:59rock and roll interpretive male singer
01:01I had heard since first hearing
01:04the iconic early recordings of Ray Charles.
01:07In my opinion,
01:08no one has since come even close to him
01:11as one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists
01:13of all time.
01:15I feel very strongly
01:16that Joe Cocker should be considered
01:17for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
01:20I hope you will consider putting his name
01:22on the voting ballot this year.
01:24Sincerely, Billy Joel.
01:33I never heard back.
01:37I never heard anything.
01:38You never heard back?
01:39Never heard back.
01:40No.
01:41Shows you how much impact I have.
01:42He isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
01:58Why could that be?
02:00That's a surprise.
02:08Someone doesn't like him there
02:10on the board or whatever.
02:13It's very strange, yeah.
02:15Like me.
02:17But of course,
02:21he should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
02:24It's shameful that he's not in it.
02:27In a way, you know.
02:28What the hell is that?
02:29He was an interpreter,
02:30like Sinatra was an interpreter.
02:32Like all the great,
02:34really great singers,
02:35were interpreters.
02:37They did it their way.
02:40So,
02:42hats off to Joe.
02:43and
02:56and
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