Tuesday 14 March 2017

Storm in a teacup: memoirs of a tea lady. Chapter 19



I was there at Woodstock. And I remember everything.   It was in the summer of ’69, and I was busy backstage making cups of tea for Janis, Joni, Jimi and The Grateful Dead.  But the absolute highlight for me —and pinnacle of my brilliant  career— was the cup of tea I made for Joe Cocker. What a gentleman.  He asked me, ever so politely for a cup tea, dash of milk, one sugar, and strong but not too strong.  And  I can remember the song he sang, clear as a bell is my memory of him in that wonderfully raspy  and heartbreaking   voice of his, singing  what  became my anthem through all the ups and downs of being a tea lady— I Can Get By with A Little Help from My Friends.

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