One Night Of Sin

Performer: Joe Cocker
Artist: Bryan Adams; Lenny Pickett; Jeff Pevar
Engineer: John Rollo
Producer: Charlie Midnight
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Joe Cocker (vocals); Bryan Adams, Phil Grande, Jeff Pevar (guitar); Lenny Pickett, Frank Elmo, Mario Cruz, Crispin Cioe, Deric Dyer, Arno Hecht (saxophone); Paul Litteral, Mark Pender (trumpet); Richie Labamba, Robert Funk (trombone); Jeff Levine (piano, organ, synthesizer, percussion); Chris Stainton (organ, synthesizer); T.M. Stevens (bass); David Beal (drums, percussion); Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Curtis King, Vaneese Thomas, Tawatha Agee (background vocals). Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studio, New York, New York. This followup to Cocker's comeback album (1987's UNCHAIN MY HEART) boasts the same band, the same production team, and the same esthetic approach, i.e. it's a savvy mix of slick late '80s power ballads and cannily chosen cover songs. The latter, not surprisingly, provide the meat of the album. Cocker apparently relates to the sexual paranoia in Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man," and he gives it an appropriately volcanic rendering. Even better, he seems to locate a similar feeling of dread in the old Little Willie John/Peggy Lee chestnut "Fever," and he positively out- Elvis's Elvis with his take on the similarly-themed title song. Guilt never sounded so good.

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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