Posted on 12/22/2014 10:30:04 AM PST by facedown
Edited on 12/22/2014 10:37:14 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Joe Cocker has died aged 70 after a battle with lung cancer.
His management confirmed his passing to Britain's IITV News.
Born John Robert Cocker in Sheffield, he achieved international success as a blues/rock singer beginning in the 1960s and recorded 40 albums.
For those others, like me, who could not understand his lyrics, a little subcaptioning is helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEb8DflQ9lY
I think I recall he was ashamed because Joe had that palsy thing going on. . .
Leon Russell
Made The Box Tops’ heads explode!
R.I.P.
Duh! You’re right!
When I was given my first iPod, I started filled it with music I loved - everything from Ella to Monkeys to Brad Paisley. When I saw Joe Cocker I wondered if I liked him so much because he was really good or that he was so odd. After re listening it was obvious to me that it was because he was that good. RIP
I love his performance in the Woodstock movie “lets get stoned”.....RIP
People in the music industry thought that Jennifer Warnes was insane to want to sing a duet with him. But somehow it works. RIP
Aww, crap...
Good performer, great talent... sad to hear this.
Because it was a better version. I like Ringo's voice, but it's no comparison between him or Joe.
it was spot on perfect to the point where if he’d applied himself, he could have influenced music every bit as much. Hell, the Blues Brothers band took nominal blues tunes and elevated them - they were tight
Geeez, that goes back
Literally ... what a trip
Yeah, it’s like the singer’s equivalent of “guitar face”.
One of my favorite all time voices. It was an instrument as important as the band...more important than, actually, in his case and Janis Joplin’s.
My prayer is RIP, Joe.
My favorite and one of the first songs I ever heard on my fathers new stereo system in the 1970s. It blew me away the sound quality. “I can hear the guy playing the bongos!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGeoLvNces
Ask some really young people today to listen to one or two of his songs and they will roll their eyes, just to let you know they equate it with elevator music!
To you and me, anyway.
I clearly recall sitting at the Prairie Lake Drive In on 436 in Altamonte Springs (central FL) smoking doobies and watching Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Great.
Mediocre video quality, a lot like VHS home movies. But the content, wow. I just picked up a copy and watched it again recently.
Any FReepers from Central FL remember the Prairie Lake Drive In?
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