Across From Midnight

Performer: Joe Cocker
Artist: Glenn Tilbrook
Engineer: Chris Lord-Alge; Dave Harman; Matt Howe; Andy Baker
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Joe Cocker (vocals); Dean Parks (acoustic, electric, 12 string & Wha Wha guitars); Graham Lyle (acoustic guitar); Michael Landau, Tim Pierce, Ronnie Johnson, Glen Tilbrook (guitar); Daniel Higgins, Jamie Talbot (saxophone); Jerry Hey, Gary Grant (trumpet); Bill Reichenbach, Neil Sidwell (trombone); Chris Stainton (piano, Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ); C.J. Vanston (Hammond B-3 organ); Steve Pigott (keyboards); Phil Spalding (bass, background vocals); Neil Stubenhaus, Hutch Hutchinson (bass); J.R. Robinson, Kenny Aronoff, Geoff Dunn (drums); Rafael Padilla, Louise Conti, Miles Bould (percussion); Fred White, Joey Diggs, Lamont Van Hook, Marlena Jeter, Pete Smith Alexandra Brown, Morty Jenkins, Claudia Fontaine (background vocals). Producers include: Chris Lord-Alge, Jeffery "CJ" Vanston, Roger Davies, Pete Smith, Bob Thiele. Recorded at NRG Studio, Los Angeles, California. Personnel: Dean Parks (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, wah-wah guitar); Glenn Tilbrook (guitar, background vocals); Nigel Spennywin, Michael Landau, Ronnie Johnson, Tim Pierce, Tim Renwick, Matt Backer (guitar); Graham Lyle (acoustic guitar); Mark Feltham (harmonica); Dan Higgins, Jamie Talbot (saxophone); Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Steve Sidwell (trumpet); Bill Reichenbach Jr. (trombone); Chris Stainton (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Chris Steinton (piano); Jeffrey "C.J." Vanston (Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer); Steve Pigott (keyboards); Garry Hughes (synthesizer, string synthesizer); Geoff Dunn, John "J.R." Robinson , Kenny Aronoff (drums); Louise Conti, Miles Bould, Rafael Padilla (percussion); Chris Difford, Claudia Fontaine, Alexandra Brown, Phil Spalding, Peter Smith , Fred White , Joey Diggs, Juliet Roberts, Lamont VanHook, Tessa Niles, Mortonette Jenkins, Marlena Jeter (background vocals). Recording information: metropolis Studios, London, England; NRG Studio, Los Angeles, CA; SARM Workshop, London, England. Photographers: Greg Gorman; Michael Owens. Sure, he's mellowed some over the years. He'd probably have been dead a long time ago if he didn't. Sure he's singing songs with French titles ("N'oubliez Jamais") amid lush string and horn arrangements. But he's still Joe Cocker, damn it. He still knows how to pick a cover tune, too. This time around it's not "With A Little Help From My Friends" or "The Letter" that he recasts into a new, soulful image, but Bob Marley's "Could You Be Loved" and Squeeze's "Loving You Tonight," which seem tailor-made for the Cocker treatment. He's backed on ACROSS FROM MIDNIGHT by an impressive set of studio stalwarts as well, including longtime piano man Chris Stainton and Uberdrummer Kenny Aronoff.

The purveyor of the most blood-curdling scream in pop music history (on his epochal cover of the Beatles "A Little Help From My Friends"), the deeply soulful Joe Cocker is also one of rock's most gifted interpretive singers, with a live show that is the stuff of legend. Cocker's stage trademark is a heaving, herky-jerky style, one cribbed from Ray Charles's passionate motions at the piano. After a breakthrough performance at Woodstock, he enjoyed a wave of success in the 1970s, peaking with the aching ballad (and eventual wedding standard) "You Are So Beautiful." After a brief hiatus, Cocker reemerged, duetting with Jennifer Warnes on "Up Where We Belong," the theme from AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN, one of the biggest hits of 1982.

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