Here's a link to that, if you want to get the updated cover art and mp3 tags and such:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/04/joe-cocker-bbc-sessions-volume-3-in.html
It was easy for this one to slip my notice, because this concert was actually part of a single-day rock festival broadcast in full by the German TV program "Rockpalast." But for some reason, the BBC weekly radio show "In Concert" had a special day where they also broadcast the festival in full, making it fair game for me. The other musical acts in the festival were U2, Dave Edmunds, Steve Miller, and the Stray Cats. I plan on posting all their sets here too, except for U2, which I'm leaving out because they played pretty much the exact same set they did for their "Under a Blood Red Sky..." live album and their 1982 BBC concert that I've posted already.
This concert came at a good time for Cocker, because his commercial fortunes were drastically improved in 1982, due to his duet with Jennifer Warnes on the song "Up Where We Belong." Not only was that a Number One hit in the U.S., it was one of a handful of the biggest singles of the year. Given the popularity of that song, I was very surprised that he didn't perform it in this concert. Perhaps that's because it was a duet and he didn't have a female like Warnes on hand to duet with. But I think it's more likely he simply didn't want to play it. He had a problem that that very poppy song (from a movie soundtrack) didn't fit with the kind of music he was putting out on his studio albums at the time. In fact, not long after it reached the top of the charts, he was dropped by his record label and had to find a new one! It seems he rarely played it in 1982 and 1983, though he played it more often in later years.
But while I was looking up information about that song, I was pleased to see how Jennifer Warnes came to choose Cocker to do the duet with. She happened to catch him perform a song on TV in 1982, and saw that he was musically revitalized after many years of struggle. She said, "I was so moved, I was hollering out loud with joy, jumping up and down ... After a difficult battle with drugs and alcohol, Joe was in total command once again. I knew at that moment that I would sing with Joe." So that's why I'm saying this was a good time for Cocker, musically.
Cocker's most recent album at the time was "Sheffield Steel," released in 1982. But he only played two songs from that, "Seven Days" (by Bob Dylan) and "Many Rivers to Cross" (by Jimmy Cliff).
This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.
01 A Girl like You (Joe Cocker)
02 Feelin' Alright (Joe Cocker)
03 A Whiter Shade of Pale (Joe Cocker)
04 Inner City Blues (Joe Cocker)
05 Don't Talk to Me (Joe Cocker)
06 Just like Always (Joe Cocker)
07 Many Rivers to Cross (Joe Cocker)
08 talk (Joe Cocker)
09 Threw It Away (Joe Cocker)
10 Seven Days (Joe Cocker)
11 Watching the River Flow (Joe Cocker)
12 With a Little Help from My Friends (Joe Cocker)
13 You Are So Beautiful (Joe Cocker)
14 The Letter (Joe Cocker)
15 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Joe Cocker)
16 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Joe Cocker)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/L14KuLyY
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/VDgzcAyCvt5IuWq/file
The cover photo is from the ARMS Benefit concert in Dallas in 1983. I've posted that concert at this blog.
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