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
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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.
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Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
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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.
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'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.
I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.
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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.
When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.
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.
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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 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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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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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.