Backed by his road-hardened Grease Band, Cocker appeared possessed by the song, roaring it with a gravel-rough voice, his hands shaking at his side, and his body spasming.
Wahlberg proves an electric (if semi-satirical) stage presence, Timothy Spall is wonderfully sleazy as the road-hardened manager, and the whole thing is nice and loud, with an irresistible speed-freak velocity.
Mick Wall's War Stories – the back page feature in which the road-hardened biographer of Led Zeppelin, Axl Rose and John Peel shares the fruits of his wisdom – is another instant favourite.
Despite their image as road-hardened Southern boys, the Kings of Leon seem to have wilted over the weekend in the heat of Texas, where the band cut short a concert on Friday night in Dallas and postponed a show on Saturday in Houston.
By the end of senior year we were, in our own minds, a road-hardened group of pros.
John, Paul, George and Ringo came on like smiley, wide-eyed boys but were actually road-hardened pros who knew how to sell a song, whether it was over the noise of a drunk crowd in a cramped club in Hamburg or screeching girls in a New York auditorium.
The march was quick and quiet, owing to a long frost which had hardened the roads and Waller's judicious use of wooded areas.
By the spring of 1960, according to one of Yang's witnesses, corpses lay on the roads and in the fields, hardened by the winter cold and bent, often with holes in their buttocks and legs where flesh had been torn off.
Yet elsewhere the bright orange clay has now hardened to brick, forming punishing road humps that pound the suspension and your spine.
The roads are so densely packed under sand hardened into foot-high ruts and deep puddles that they seem like dirt paths, never paved.
More severe autoxidation is found in processes such as bitumen hardening for the production of road asphalt (Vassiliev et al. 2001).
