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
In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.
deny
I could never deny myself bein' an artist.
berry came chuck life richard roll shores
Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
amazing gigs good people played
People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.
audiences germany strongest stuck
My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.
carried damaged physically stage
I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
strongest
'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.
good
I'm no good at breakin' off with people.
english-musician relax somewhere
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.
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.
thinking play able
I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
friendship best-friend song
Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.
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?