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.
style matter hearing
It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
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.
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.
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.
english-musician york
Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
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 relax somewhere
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.