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
thinking relax colorado
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
thinking idols scary
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
thinking play able
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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.
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.
friendship best-friend song
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.