Classic Cocker

Performer: Joe Cocker
Producer: Roger Davies; Stewart Levine; Charlie Midnight; Keith Forsey; Jim Price; Terry Manning; Gary Katz; Richie Zito; Chris Lord-Alge; Don Was; Danny Kortchmar; Michael Lang; Tony Lunn (Compilation); Mike Ragogna (Compilation)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Additional personnel: Jennifer Warnes. Although there are many Joe Cocker compilations available on the market, 2007's CLASSIC COCKER provides the service of focusing on his finest vintage tunes. Renowned for his gravelly voice and passionate delivery, the British pop/rock performer shines on his hit Beatles covers "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window," as well as his stirring take on the Box Tops' "The Letter," all of which are featured here. While CLASSIC is perfect for the casual Cocker fan, those looking for a more comprehensive anthology may want to seek out the excellent two-disc GOLD set.

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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