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
I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.
I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
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I thought it would be good to keep Europe alone for a bit, so it's coming up to almost three years since I have played over there.
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I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.
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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.
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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.
To be on the road, even if you're not that happy, is all right, as long as I'm pourin' me heart into it.
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.
When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.
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Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
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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.
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I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
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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.
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I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.