He was one of the great pop heroes of British-based music: Joe Cocker. Today he died as a result of lung cancer.
The raw minded Cocker was born in Sheffield in 1944 and worked as a gasinstalleur. In 1964, he broke through and has since spent forty albums. For “Up Where We Belong”, a duet with Jennifer Warnes, he received a Grammy in 1983.
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In the sixties, Cocker, he moved to the United States and toured with the Rolling Stones. He was friends with Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and Rod Stewart. But at the same time demanded all partied its toll. Cocker used alcohol and drugs and got in the seventies on a lee shore.
“If I had been stronger in my shoes, I had me maybe turn away from those temptations. But there were no rehabilitation clinics at that time. Drugs were there, and I dove in full. It took years before I had an overview of everything, ” said Cocker in 2013 against the British newspaper Daily Mail.
followed in the eighties comeback of the ‘clean’ Cocker. He scored his biggest hits in that decade. From the late eighties knew the singer no huge hits to score more, but he acted still constantly. He also spent a lot of new material, without that arguing the charts. “Creating pop records is more difficult as you get older, ” Cocker. said
In recent years he lived with his wife Pam on a remote farm in Colorado. The farm is called the Mad Dog Ranch, named after his album Mad Dogs and Englishmen and nicknamed Mad Dog Cocker got in Australia after he was caught in possession of marijuana. He enjoyed the tranquility; he went fishing and took long walks. Cocker was still music, his latest album “Fire it Up” dates from 2012.
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