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
artificial time tracks
I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.
I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
english-musician york
Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
few hard
I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.
someplace
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
cafe english-musician gave money open running wife
We have a cafe up here where we live, we had it open for 3 years, and my wife was running it. But I sank so much money into it... we gave it a shot.
dismiss paper people piece putting
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.
knew
When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.
dad partly picked
I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.
friendship best-friend song
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
song tired years
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
age world computer
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
people feelings elements
I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.