Vocalist Joe Cocker has pored through his archives and chosen his 20 favorite songs from his own canon for the forthcoming hits album "Joe Cocker: Ultimate Collection," due Jan.
“Back in Black” is the second best-selling album of all time. It was the seventh album by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. The album, released in July 1980, sold around51 milliontimes globally. The album marked the first one after the tragic death of the band’s lead vocalist R...
" played far less like a jazz standard, as well as some eyebrow-raising imitations of some of his contemporaries, from Elton John to Joe Cocker to Leon Russell.
Violent Femmes,Salt-N-Pepa, andAerosmith, while many of the original 1969 headliners took to the stage as well, including Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Joe Cocker, and Country Joe
The album’s often difficult, sometimes purposefully stodgy, with O’Rourke carrying a newly gruff voice that bears a sailor’s bark, sometimes recalling unlikely figures like British bawler Joe Cocker. If it shares a singular trait with the other "pop" albums he’s made for Drag City, it...
Friends and biographers also say that Wilson was an uncredited writer on "You Are So Beautiful", a hit for Joe Cocker in 1974. During his final years, Wilson struggled with substance addictions that contributed to tensions with his bandmates. His only solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue (1977),...
covers, it may beJoe Cocker, who put his own soulful spin on a number of their songs over the years. Harrison actually offered "Something" to Cocker first before recording his own version. Cocker's rendition came out the month after the Beatles' did, on his second albumJoe Cocker!(...
covers, it may beJoe Cocker, who put his own soulful spin on a number of their songs over the years. Harrison actually offered "Something" to Cocker first before recording his own version. Cocker's rendition came out the month after the Beatles' did, on his second albumJoe Cocker!(...
The rest of the group and producer Scott Walker create a sumptuous atmosphere for Cocker’s journey toward a new life. He finally arrives there on the majestic closer, “Sunrise”, a rousing farewell for one of the most original bands of the last 30 years. –Joe Tangari Listen: Pulp: ...
Joe Cocker –Mad Dogs & Englishmen(2) It was the traveling road show to end all traveling road shows when Joe Cocker released this live double set in August that personified the rock ’n’ soul party. The singer, just 25 when it was recorded, was joined by musical director Leon Russell...