Warnes and Cocker kept to an agreement that they would never lip-sync their performances of the song . One of their earliest live appearances was on the November 20 , 1982 , episode of '' Solid Gold '' . '' Saturday Night Live '' followed on February 5 , 1983 , and their performance at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards came later that month , on February 23 . Backstage at the Grammys Warnes said about working with Cocker , " I was told it was the weirdest pairing ever , " and regarding their April 11 appearance at the 55th Academy Awards , she admitted , " Neither of us were comfortable in the Oscar world . Joe performing in a white tuxedo , me in pink taffeta — how absurd . " In 2013 Cocker was honored in Berlin with a Goldene Kamera award , and Warnes joined him to sing the song at the ceremony . The day after Cocker 's death in 2014 Warnes wrote , " I realized yesterday that we will never sing our song again . That thought makes me feel sick . We met last year in Berlin to sing together . I did n't know that would be our last time . " Her visceral reaction to his death parallels the powerful chemistry they had in their many performances of the song , which she had summed up years earlier : " I always thought the pairing had a strong ring of truth to it . It was so unlikely , because Joe has this well-known , very raw , masculine energy . I was less well known and had this very vulnerable , quintessential female energy and we were very polarized , as men and women often are these days . But we met in the middle . " Stewart Levine produced Cocker 's next LP , which was intended for Island , but , the singer revealed , as with the duet , Blackwell hated it , so Cocker left Island for Capitol . The new label also had reservations about the number of slow ballads included on the new project . Another producer was brought in to give the album a different tone , and the result was the 1984 release '' Civilized Man '' . Peaking at number 133 on the '' Billboard '' 200 , it was his lowest charting studio album in the US at that point
55th Academy Awards
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