Tag: Woodstock

• Two actors rode choppers across America and changed Hollywood forever

  

  ‘Easy Rider’ desperate journey in search of freedom and tolerance opened in New York on July 14, 1969, and set the stage for the ‘New Hollywood.’

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  July 13, 2022

  MOVIE CLASSICS

  ‘New Hollywood’, Chappaquiddick, Counterculture, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, Jack Nicholson, Mary Jo Kopechne, Nixon, Peter Fonda, SHARON TATE MURDERS, Ted Kennedy, Woodstock

• Joe Cocker, king of the rock anthem

  

  Joe Cocker died on this day, December 22, 2014, in Crawford, Colorado, at the age of 70. No mystery as to the cause of death. He smoked forty cigarettes a day.

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  December 22, 2020

  ROCK ANTHEMS

  JOE COCKER, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Rock anthem, With a Little Help From My Friends, Woodstock

• Cower not in covid fear

  

  All across America, people are trying to regain their freedom. Crazy with cabin fever and rebellious over forced locked downs they are rushing to the beaches from New Jersey to Florida to California.

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  May 17, 2020

  In Transit

  1969, ‘Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World’, Cabin fever, COVID-19, FEAR, FREEDOM, Hong Kong Flu, Live Free Or Die, Lockdowns, Neil Young, New Hampshire, Times Square, Woodstock

• Joe Cocker’s ‘soul anthem’

  

  Paul McCartney said of Joe Cocker’s version of the Beatles 1967 song With a Little Help From My Friends: “It was mind-blowing, he totally turned the song into a soul anthem.”

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  December 22, 2019

  FAMOUS SONGS

  Crawford Colorado, Joe Cocker in Berlin, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, With a Little Help From My Friends, Woodstock