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
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Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
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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.
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Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
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'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.
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I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
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My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.
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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.
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There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.
When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.