Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBEwas an English singer and musician. He was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance and definitive versions of popular songs...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth20 May 1944
song moving focus
For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.
beautiful needs need-you
You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.
deny
I could never deny myself bein' an artist.
berry came chuck life richard roll shores
Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
audiences germany strongest stuck
My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.
carried damaged physically stage
I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
strongest
'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.
good
I'm no good at breakin' off with people.
english-musician relax somewhere
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
tip
A lot of times when you're young and carefree, you don't realize, when you tip over the edge, how difficult it is to climb back in.
english-musician good
I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
realise
I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.
people these-days ballads
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
amazing gigs good people played
People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.