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Joe Cocker Biography

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer and musician. He was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance and definitive versions of popular songs of varying genre.

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I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

Believe, Hard Work, Heart, Work, World

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

Audience, Focus, Moving, Song

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

Came, Down, Germany, Wall

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

Fitter, Gas, Job, Jobs, Pipe

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Bald, Fat, Guy, Old, Singing, Years

Unfortunately I was in New York when 9
11 happened.

Happened, New York, Unfortunately, York

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

100000, Crowds, Elements, Feelings, People

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

Continue, Look, Looks, Reevaluate, Want, Years

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Million, People, Quarter, Quarters, Weird, Weird Places

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Fit, Hearing, Matter, Style

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

Away, Colorado, Relax, Telluride, Thinking

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

Artist, Cover, Nice, Response

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda. . . my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

Good, Like, Lists, People, Set, Song

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

Able, Like, Old, Rays, Song

Love lift us up where we belong.

Belong, Inspirational, Lift, Lifts, Love

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Best Friend, Friends, Friendship, Help, Oooh, Song

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

Mean, America, Interesting, Said, Via

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