John Belushi SNL Joe Cocker With a Little Help From My Friends

SNL comedian John Belushi's best impersonation ever of Joe Cocker singing The Beatles' cover of With A Little Help From My Friends from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Both greats are dead; John Belushi died in Hollywood, CA of a drug overdose on March 5, 1982; Joe Cocker died from lung cancer on December 22, 2014. Watch The Blues Brothers film song performances, starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd: https://youtu.be/5HLFWPYik9U

In April 1969, Joe Cocker laid the groundwork for his ’70s stardom when he unveiled his debut album, With a Little Help From My Friends. For almost a decade, the Sheffield-born Cocker had been toiling in the trenches — first under the pseudonym Vance Arnold and later under his own name, fronting cult pub legends the Grease Band. In an era of self-contained bands and singer-songwriters, With a Little Help From My Friends bucked the trend in establishing Cocker as one of the most imaginative and distinctive interpretative singers of his generation.

The album opens with funky piano chords ushering in Dave Mason’s Traffic song “Feelin’ Alright,” the first of many tracks that Cocker made his own with help from backup singers Merry Clayton (who also sang on the Stones‘ ‘Gimme Shelter’) and Brenda and Patrice Holloway. Around the same time, he also debuted his singular stage mannerisms, which he later genially spoofed alongside John Belushi.

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