‘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.’

‘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.’
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.
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.
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.”