This confirms his management to British media, including the BBC .
Joe Cocker was on May 20, 1944 in Sheffield, England born. In 1964 he became internationally known as a blues and rock singer, and he has since spent forty albums.
The singer is best known for his songs You Are So Beautiful and With a Little Help From My Friends .
Grammy
In 1983, Cocker received a Grammy for Up Where We Belong , a duet with Jennifer Warnes. The Briton made a total of forty albums.
“It is impossible for the space he leaves behind empty in our hearts again to fill,” let his representative Barrie Marshall said in a statement.
Drink and drugs
In the sixties Cocker was recognized as one of the great pop heroes of the British music scene. 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 avert those temptations. But there were no rehab 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
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Comeback
In the eighties followed the comeback of the ‘clean’ Cocker. He scored his biggest hits in that decade.
From the late eighties, the singer did not enormous hits to score more, but he became still constantly. He also spent a lot of new material, without alleging that the charts. ” Make pop records becomes more difficult as you get older, ” says Cocker.
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 the nickname 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 back to 2012
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Video: Joe Cocker at Rock in Rio in 1991
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