British singer Joe Cocker, legendary for playing songs like “With a Little Help From My Friends” style blues and rock, died Sunday night at 70 in the US, because of a lung cancer, said representative Barrie Marshall in a statement. He said it was “undoubtedly the best singer of rock / soul that has produced Britain.”
In 1964 he recorded his first single with the song “Georgia on my Mind” master Ray Charles, and “I’ll Cry Instead” by The Beatles.
Cocker gained popularity in the 60s thanks to its flagship version of “With a Little Help From My Friends”, another song from The Beatles to the British played in his hoarse voice feature in the festival Woodstock in August 1969, and that same year reached number one on the British and European charts.
During the musical encounter, the interpreter also sang “Delta Lady”, “Some things goin on “” Let’s go get stoned “and” I Shall Be Released “.
The song composed by the quartet of Liverpool regained fame in the 90s for being part of the television series The Wonder Years .
Cocker achieved another musical boom in Britain with the song “Delta Lady” by Leon Russell, and subsequently obtained other versions of the Beatles, especially in 1970 with “She came in the bathroom-through window “from the album Abbey Road.
However, the US market came with,” Cry Me a River “and” Feelin alright “Dave Mason. In 1970, his version of the famous song “The letter” by The Box Tops, which appeared on the live album Mad dogs and Englishmen, became his first song placed in the top 10 in the US.
Among his biggest hits include “Night Calls” and “Up Where We Belong”, a duet with Jennifer Warnes who was part of the soundtrack of the film An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982, and that earned him an Oscar.
Cocker released his musical career in Sheffield, England, the city where he was born, and which participated in some small bands since his 15 years. The first one was called The Avengers, followed by Big Blues in 1963 and The Grease Band, in 1966.
After playing drums with the Cavaliers, became the singer Gasborad groups and Vince Arnold and the Avengers, with whom he toured in which he shared the stage with the Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann and The Hollies.
In 1969 he was invited to the Ed Sullivan Show. On stage showed movements of great physical strength, and waving his arms and pretended to play the guitar, which gave a superfluous appearance.
Thanks to the consolidation obtained as a singer in the beginning, the interpreter managed to join the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tape (same name of the song that brought him into the top 10 in the US), with whom began their relationship in the film that kept current throughout his entire career and which contributed to great success in the music industry.
In 1972, after a tour of 65 concerts in 57 days by the United States fell into a deep personal crisis as a result of alcohol and drug situation led him to depart from the music world, however, reappeared in 1982 with the release of their eighth album Sheffield Steel.
Subsequently completed his film successes with songs like “You Can Leave Your Hat On” written by Randy Newman and starring in 9 1/2 Weeks Cocker, 1985 or albums Civilized Man (1984)) and Cocker (1986). However, their song “Unchain my Heart” 1987 definitely would crown his career in the music scene, which took him to the top.
Cocker participated in the opening of Woodstock ’94, an event that was memorable to his career, and he was one of the few who had played in the original festival 1969, why was well received by the public.
In the same year released the album Have a Little Faith and Later he recorded Organic in 1996, and was followed Across from midnigh in 1997 and then No Ordinary World in 2000.
In 2003 he celebrated his 35 years in the world of music with a double album titled The Ultimate Collection 1968-2003, which gathered more than 30 hits of his career, which led him to establish itself as one of the most important singers of blues and rock music industry.
His next work, Heart and Soul was published in 2004 as an album of covers of classic soul, blues and rock of the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties, and this continued its time to collect successes, as recorded in 2008 Hymn for my soul, collection of themes in classic style.
His last works were the live Live at Woodstock “in 2009, Hard Knocks in 2010, which includes nine new songs, Icon, 2011, and Fire it up in 2012.
It is important to note that some of the musical influences that marked Joe Cocker were black as Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin.
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