# With A Little Help From My Friends - you prefer the Beatles, or Joe Cocker?

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**Created:** [June 18, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-you-prefer-the-beatles-or-joe-cocker/722820 "2015-06-18T02:36:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-you-prefer-the-beatles-or-joe-cocker/722820/39 "2015-06-18T20:49:30Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> Cocker’s version is about the singer, not the song.

I have a half-baked theory that, in general, music fans can be divided into two groups: those whose love is for the music itself, and those whose love is for the performers. For the first group, the job of the performer (singer or band) is to do the song justice. For the second group, the purpose of the song is to give the performer an opportunity to show what they can do.

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