Blues and rock singer Joe Cocker (70) deceased – AD.nl

by Tom Tates
22-12-14 – 19:15 © EPA.

Update The world famous blues and rock singer Joe Cocker is deceased at the age of 70. The death of the star has been confirmed by his agent.

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,, It is impossible in the space he our hearts leave empty, fill it again, ” let his representative Barrie Marshall said in a statement. According to Marshall’s Cocker yesterday deceased. The star lived a long time in the place Crawford in the US state of Colorado and is also deceased there. He had been ill for some time. Marshall calls Cocker ‘a unique person who actually always the same during his life remained. Cocker was married for 27 years and 34 along with Pam Baker: an American summer camp leader a big fan of his. Cocker himself had no children, but he considered his stepdaughter Zoey as a child of his own. He has two granddaughters:. Children Zoey

Making Cocker songs did not. The songs he wrote during his long career are actually count on one hand. In 2012, he said in an interview with the Telegraph: ,, My strength is not in writing music, but carrying it out. That’s what I’m good at, “says the singer with the characteristic raw voice.” The text of a number is therefore very important to me. I do not play guitar or other instrument, so the text is my instrument. I can put my expression and along improvise. And with my voice. I am a white soul singer. I put my soul into the words. Whenever I sing the lyrics are different. It is different every time when I’m on stage. That’s my strength as a singer. ”

Joe Cocker and his wife lived quite withdrawn in Colorada. In their hometown to live at most 500 souls. ,, It’s so incredibly beautiful and soothing. There still live bears and cougars. I grow tomatoes there. It’s a very different world than the life on the road. ”

Dream
His first big hit was the song With a Little Help from My Friends , a cover of the eponymous Beatles song. In the same year (1969) he appeared at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. And hence his name was established. Was also a big dream of Cocker who started as a plumber, a job he combined with playing drums in several bands. In 1967 he discovered and he may release his first album. Together with pianist Chris Stainton he brings in 1968 the number Marjorine . That will be a modest hit in his native Britain. His absolute international breakthrough is then With a Little Help.

Other early hits are Cry me a river and Feelin ‘alright . At the beginning of the seventies he had problems with drugs and alcohol, but he made a successful comeback in the eighties. Cocker felt, as he once said, reborn after therapy (1973) who afhielp him the drugs. Yet he felt afterwards often unwell and was struggling with his health. He experienced the long and successful tours as debilitating. Nevertheless, he continued to be productive. After a long silence, and money problems Joe Cocker returned in 1982 back on the international concert scene.

Cocker had big hits with Y ou are so beautiful , Up where we belong and Unchain my heart , which he new audiences to themselves tied. He is known for his distinctive, raw vocals and a typical gesture which is somewhat reminiscent of playing air guitar.