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With a gritty and powerful voice that remains one of the most distinctive in rock music history, British white soul singer Joe Cocker has outlasted many of his 1960s peers, and continues to cover songs with his singular musical style. Cocker was born John Robert Cocker in Sheffield, England on May 20, 1994. After playing in a variety of bands, Cocker was discovered by Denny Cordell, the producer of Procol Harum and the Moody Blues, and was set up as an artist in residence at a popular London club. After minor success in the U.S. with the single "Marjorine", he en Continued...

tered the big time with a groundbreaking rearrangement of "With a Little Help from My Friends," a Beatles cover, featuring lead guitar from Jimmy Page. Cocker went on to bring down the house in his 1969 performance at the Woodstock Music Festival, where, according to Rolling Stone , “his habit of wildly flailing his arms as he sang became as much a rock archetype as Pete Townshend's windmill.” With a Little Help from My Friends (April 1969) and Joe Cocker! (November 1969), went gold in America. In 1970, his cover of the Box Tops hit "The Letter" became his first U.S. Top Ten. Cocker's first peak of success came when Russell organized the "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" tour of 1970, featuring Cocker and over 40 others and resulting in a third gold album and a concert film.
After becoming a huge success, Cocker developed problems with alcohol and his popularity waned, but he came back in 1975, the US Top Ten romantic ballad, "You Are So Beautiful.” In 1982, he hit the top of the charts again with the 1982 hit “Up Where We Belong,” a duet with Jennifer Warren that was performed on the “Officer and a Gentlemen” movie soundtrack. He has survived, still charting into the '90s, albeit with less frequency than he did in the '70s and '80s. He also continues to work throughout the new millennium, most recently on the European release, Hymn for My Soul, which features cover versions of songs by Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, and John Fogerty. While the Joe Cocker songs don’t come as fast and furiously anymore, they are still around to remind us that great talent never fades away; it just finds new tunes to sing.