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
someplace
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
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.
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.
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.
deny
I could never deny myself bein' an artist.
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.
style matter hearing
It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
years
Over the years, Ive worked with just about everybody.
touring
Ive been touring now since about 68.
wall germany
I was in Germany when the wall came down.
nice artist response
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
mean america interesting
It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
years guy singing
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
years want looks
I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.