Joe Cocker

Birthday: 20 May 1944, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Birth Name: John Robert Cocker

Height: 174 cm

Joe Cocker was born on May 20, 1944 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England as John Robert Cocker. He was married to Pam Baker. He died on December 22, 2014 in Crawford, Colorado, USA.

[on his distinctive scream when performing] People go, "Wow, what's that all about?". It's a falsett...Show more »

[on his distinctive scream when performing] People go, "Wow, what's that all about?". It's a falsetto really, and it takes a bit of learning. I just discovered it by accident by getting excited one night. I just did this yell, and I was like "What was that?". So that's how it came to be in "Little Help". I did it when we were first learning the song and it became an integral part of it. Show less «

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to...Show more »

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? Show less «

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

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

Back then, I and most rockers, loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the...Show more »

Back then, I and most rockers, loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s. Show less «

Don't go on American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (2002), I think you'll spend the rest of your ...Show more »

Don't go on American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (2002), I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it? Show less «

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

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload p...Show more »

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people. Show less «

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

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

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

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of...Show more »

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing. Show less «

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people...Show more »

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. Show less «

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

I've been touring now since about '68.

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

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

Unfortunately, I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there ...Show more »

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. Show less «

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and th...Show more »

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think. Show less «

Over the years, I've worked with just about everybody.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.