Joe Cocker's Woodstock version of the Beatles' "(With a) Little Help From My Friends" has always been a favorite of mine. The Beatles version, helmed by Ringo on vocals, was a pleasant piece of confectionary, but Cocker's version unpacked the true emotional power of the song and, as John and Paul no doubt intended, extemporized on the true meaning of friendship and the power it brings into our lives.

Finally, someone has captured Cocker's riffs in this captioned version of the Woodstock performance, highlighting, to be sure, Cocker's talent for improvisation but also the simple genius of the song's themes of alienation and intedependence in a post-industrial, post-modernist society. This new rendering of Cocker's groundbreaking performance allows us to fully appreciate the cultural watershed that was Woodstock.