Joe Cocker..RIP

Chris Boyd · Post by **Chris Boyd** » 22 Dec 2014 1:15 pm

Just heard that Joe Cocker has passed at 70 from lung cancer...from Woodstock on, Joe was just great...RIP and thanks for all the terrific music...

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 22 Dec 2014 1:42 pm

RIP Joe
You were an original.

Lee Warren · Post by **Lee Warren** » 22 Dec 2014 2:25 pm

Sad news.
I always enjoyed watching the film of his tour called 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'.
R.I.P. Joe.

Larry Waisner · Post by **Larry Waisner** » 22 Dec 2014 4:21 pm

RIP Joe you entertained us well............

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 22 Dec 2014 4:36 pm

A truly great singer - unique and a complete individual. I'm playing his cut of 'My Dear Little Friend' and it's hard to accept that that wonderful voice is stilled for ever.

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 22 Dec 2014 4:54 pm

With Bobby Keys, here. Another sad loss just last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnjWLVyMps

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Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 22 Dec 2014 4:55 pm

Loved Joe, As a young kid was freaked out by his strange gyrations on T.V., but won me over especially with his singing on an album with my all time favorites the Crusaders!
RIP Joe!

Larry Bressington · Post by **Larry Bressington** » 23 Dec 2014 1:44 pm

Great Great singer, Rest easy bloke...

Ned McIntosh · Post by **Ned McIntosh** » 23 Dec 2014 2:53 pm

A voice like raw meat. Great singer, and a character. RIP Joe. You did well.

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 24 Dec 2014 9:14 am

Become addicted to the voice and stage movements in the late 1960s and got to seem him in Amsterdam in the 1970s which cemented me as a life-long follower. Thanks the for years of happiness, Joe. Shake the angels up a bit with you presence. stevet

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 24 Dec 2014 10:06 am

That was the same year I saw him in Frankfurt, he left the stage because he was to drunk (or whatever) to perform, I remember there was a saxophone player sitting in a wheelchair, Alan Spenner on bass, Neil Spenner was playing guitar.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 24 Dec 2014 12:19 pm

Way back - it must have been 1968 - I was playing with Peter Sarstedt (the year of his big hit 'Where Do You Go to...?') and we had a gig at the Albert Hall.

It really was a memorable gig: in the first place, although Pete and I usually performed with just two acoustic guitars, we found ourselves being accompanied by a large orchestra! Strange, because at sound-check it was just us.

The orchestra was there primarily to accompany Tiny Tim (remember him???) but Peter's producer provided the string-parts from the recording sessions and we were set. That in itself was a marvellous experience - all those beautiful stringed instruments moving air all around us. There's nothing quite like the real thing, I promise you.

Best of all, though was the third act on the bill - Joe Cocker and his band. His record was high in the charts and he delivered a superb performance. The same players who played on 'With A Little Help From My Friends' were there and everyone loved it.

A wonderful night - unforgettable for so many reasons, not the least of which was the absurdity of Tiny Tim's act.

RIP, Joe....

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 25 Dec 2014 3:48 am

Joe Cocker with the Grease Band in 1968.

Lee Warren · Post by **Lee Warren** » 25 Dec 2014 6:09 am

Great picture, thanks for posting it Joachim!
Did you take that?

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 25 Dec 2014 6:41 am

No, Lee but I was there. I did only hear them a few seconds before they stopped.
There's a nice website about this festival:
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/sunburymenu.html

Godfrey Arthur · Post by **Godfrey Arthur** » 25 Dec 2014 8:42 pm

God speed Joe. You are the voice.

Allen Peterson · Post by **Allen Peterson** » 26 Dec 2014 6:13 pm

I saw Joe Cocker in June 1969 at Mile High Stadium in Denver. He was billed with Jimmy Hendrix. That was the first time I saw him; I didn't know who he was before that time. He will be missed. What a unique performer.

Allen Peterson

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 27 Dec 2014 8:24 am

Never got over his stage gyrations but he sure made a song his own. Loved his version of Unchain My Heart.

Walter Bowden · Post by **Walter Bowden** » 3 Jan 2015 1:34 pm

Didn't Joe's recording of "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" feature a steel guitar? Mad Dogs & Englishmen was a really great lineup of first class musicians and I believe BJ Wilson played drums on the studio cut of "With a Little Help From my Friends" with his unique style of timing fills.

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Joe Cocker..RIP

Joe Cocker..RIP

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thanks, Joe