70 years old was Joe Cocker. Now the singer lost with the distinctive raspy voice in the fight against cancer. What remains are not only close to 40 albums, but an eventful career full of highlights and successes, scandals and comebacks.
Woodstock Festival in August 1969
The qualified gas fitter from the industrial city of Sheffield was less famous with their own songs as cover versions. Unforgettable is his appearance at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969, when he height of the Beatles hit “With a Little Help From My Friends” was a vibrant soul depth , Joe Cocker they do not breathed the success of a song he croaked and the audience screamed and flailed against his feelings with his bare hands on an imaginary guitar a. From then on, he had found his performance for the ages, from then on he was a star.
Grammy
In 1983 he made “Unchain My Heart” (Trini Lopez) and “Summer In The City” (Lovin ‘Spoonful) to great sound experiences and world hits. Randy Newman’s song “You Can Leave Your Hat On” was Joe’s interpretation for the film “9 1/2 Weeks” for international Striptease anthem. With Billy Preston’s ballad “You’re Beautiful To” Cocker stirred the audience to tears, and for “Up Where We Belong” – a duet with Jennifer Warnes – he received the 1983 Grammy Award
“Joe. drink up and come out! “
However, there were also other Joe Cocker. Uncontrolled and uncontrollable junkie and a drunkard, the staggered drunkenly on the stage when he came for … Often thousands of his fans shouted in vain in chorus: “Joe, drinking and come out!” This began in the mid-1970s, and Joe Cocker seemed an inevitable end opposite to stagger
He himself admitted in several interviews. “It was only when I was in his early 50s, I made getting worried. I drank alone, had to drink. The people were afraid of me. I have often been drinking all night. Until I was unconscious … And when you’re first time in this downward spiral, it is difficult to get out there again. It took me years to do it. “
” That I can not drink, the punishment is God! “
He probably would have without his American wife, Pam Baker, an educator whom he married in 1987 failed in this difficult time. Since then he has lived with her on the secluded Mad Dog Ranch in 500 inhabitants Nest Crawford in the US state of Colorado. “My house has six bedrooms. When the daughter and grandson my wife come, I retire to my rooms. The others are still drinking! Since then I sit and think, That I may not drink, the punishment is God “
In 2007, the former Blues bully of Queen Elizabeth II to.” Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire “! , He remembered the ceremony: “Since her husband Philip said to me: ‘yes’s a wonder that you still can talk!’ He probably meant my husky voice. I have seen this as a compliment. “
Cocker defeated the alcohol
won the battle against alcohol Cocker, but not the fight against cancer. The musician succumbed to the disease on his ranch, the house of many rooms. The singer has passed away, but one will remain: Cocker heard after so many years, successes and scandals forever to the unforgotten of rock and blues music, according to his beautiful ballad “N’oubliez jamais”, which states: ” Sing your own song and never forget. “
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