On the Death of Joe Cocker: His life was a cry – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         
 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

Who hears the name and knows only one song from him, immediately has his raspy voice in the ear, to move his zerquältes face in my mind and the special way on stage verquer , Joe Cocker, this is not a song, it’s a scream. That he has mostly screamed cover versions of “With a Little Help From My Friends” to “Unchain My Heart”, does not matte r. He made the song his own, it was his. Now the British blues and soul singer died at the age of seventy years.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                             

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His appearance at the Woodstock Festival, now 35 years ago, made him legendary. His success made him trouble, drugs put to him, his tours in the seventies went beyond his powers. But he survived all crises and came back in the eighties and the nineties. His musical career appeared as a single act of resistance. He was still there and captured an audience that included several generations soon.

                         
         
         
         
             
                                                                                              

Joe Cocker, here at the recording of the Golden Camera in February 2013 in Berlin, was considered one of the greats in the music scene Photogallery

                         
         
         
                                                             

was born John Robert Cocker on May 20, 1944 in Sheffield. He learned gas fitter. He hung up the job, however, in 1963 the nail when he, the group “Vance Arnold & amp; The Avengers “founded. In 1964 he published the Beatles song “I’ll Cry Instead” and gave him the Cocker sound. In 1966, he founded a new band, the “Grease Band”. For an American tour, the band “Mad Dogs & amp was; Englishmen “out of thin air. After that break only once, the Cocker desperately needed. For ten years he succeeded, despite several attempts, no real success. The only returned when he in 1981 with the “Crusaders” a panel recorded. The slightly sweet duet recording with Jennifer Warnes “Up Where We Belong” stormed the charts, the song matched the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman”. The next albums “Civilized Man” and “One Night Of Sin”. 1989 Joe Cocker was once again a historic appearance on the spot. Three days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he played for ad hoc organized “Concert for Berlin”. And it turned out that “With a Little Help From My Friends” had lost none of its hymns quality.

                         
         
         
                                                             

In the years that Joe Cocker went an extensive European tour, at his concerts in Germany showed that he had a devoted fan community right here. And now – twenty years old – Joe Cocker showed a keen sense of timing, measure and center. He went on tour, took on p lates pulled back and – was back. In June 2007, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth as “Officer of the British Emipre” from.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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Two years ago, came Cocker’s latest album “Fire It Up” on the market. One of the coolest numbers that he recorded in recent years, probably his version of Randy Newman’s “You Can Leave your Hat On” to be. This too was a catchy tune, a song in which Joe Cocker immediately in the ear canal and its appearance in mind. “I have to carry anything through my voice,” he once said in an interview. “I express emotions so – that’s all I do.” Nothing else have the fans expected of him. He gave them fifty years otherwise.

                                                                                                                 
 
  

 
 
 
                       

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On the Death of Joe Cocker

His life was a cry

From Michael Hanfeld

Who hears the name, hear his voice, Joe Cocker, the British soul and blues singer, died at the age of seventy years. His decades-long career in music appeared as a single act of resistance.

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