Search - Artist/Band: Joe Cocker

• Name: Joe Cocker
• Birthday: 05/20/1944
• Birth Place: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
• Decades Active: 1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Rock
• Styles: Blues-Rock, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary
• Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Earnest, Organic, Exuberant, Poignant, Rousing, Yearning, Earthy, Passionate, Sentimental, Theatrical

Title	Release
Best of Joe Cocker [Liberation]	06/16/2008
Classic Cocker	08/28/2007
Classic Cocker [CD/DVD]	08/28/2007
Hymn for My Soul W	03/26/2007
Colour Collection	09/11/2006
Gold WA	03/07/2006
Essential Joe Cocker [EMI]	10/04/2005
Universal Masters Collection [Japan]	06/27/2005
Heroes & Friends	05/07/2005
Heart & Soul	10/12/2004
Have a Little Faith in Me [Liberation]	04/16/2004
Ultimate Collection	01/13/2004
The Ultimate Collection 1968-2003	12/09/2003
Definitive Collection 1968-2003 WA	12/01/2003
Singles	09/09/2003
Greatest Love Songs	01/28/2003
Definitive Collection	10/08/2002
Respect Yourself	07/16/2002
Essential, Vol. 2	11/27/2001
Universal Masters Collection	03/26/2001
No Ordinary World	08/22/2000
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Joe Cocker	06/06/2000
Super Hits	02/15/2000
The Anthology	08/17/1999
The Best of Joe Cocker [Mushroom]	02/23/1999
Legend/Essential Collection	02/16/1999
The Essential Joe Cocker WA	02/16/1999
The Very Best of Joe Cocker [BR Holland] WA	02/16/1999
Greatest Hits [EMI]	1998
Connoisseur's Cocker	02/11/1997
Across from Midnight	1997
Organic	10/29/1996
Legend	09/26/1994
Have a Little Faith	09/08/1994
The Best of Joe Cocker [Capitol]	03/16/1993
Essential Collection	11/18/1992
Night Calls	07/06/1992
Collection, Vol. 2	07/01/1992
Joe Cocker [Castle]	07/01/1992
The Best of Joe Cocker [Capitol Import]	1992
Night Calls [Germany]	10/07/1991
Something	07/01/1991
Joe Cocker Live	05/1990
One Night of Sin	08/1989
One Night of Sin [Alternate]	06/05/1989
Pop Classics	1989
Unchain My Heart	10/1987
Very Best of the Voice	07/1987
Classics, Vol. 4	1987
Cocker	03/1986
Collection	1986
Civilized Man	05/1984
Sheffield Steel	05/22/1982
Luxury You Can Afford	08/1978
Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits WA	11/1977
Stingray	04/1976
Jamaica Say You Will	08/1975
I Can Stand a Little Rain	08/1974
Something to Say WA	1973
Cocker Happy WA	07/1971
Joe Cocker!	11/1969
With a Little Help from My Friends	04/1969
Very Best of Joe Cocker [BR]

After starting out as an unsuccessful pop singer (working under the name Vance Arnold), Joe Cocker found his niche singing rock and soul in the pubs of England with his superb backing group, The Grease Band. He hit number one in the U.K. in November 1968 with his version of The Beatles' "A Little Help from My Friends." His career really took off after he sang that song at the Woodstock festival in August 1969. A second British hit came with a version of Leon Russell's "Delta Lady" in the fall of 1969 (by then, Russell was Cocker's musical director) and both of his albums, With a Little Help from My Friends (April 1969) and Joe Cocker! (November 1969), went gold in America. In 1970, his cover of the Box Tops hit "The Letter" became his first U.S. Top Ten. Cocker's first peak of success came when Russell organized the "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" tour of 1970, featuring Cocker and over 40 others and resulting in a third gold album and a concert film. Subsequent efforts were less popular, and problems with alcohol (both on-stage and off-) reduced Cocker's once-powerful voice to a croaking rasp. But he returned to the U.S. Top Ten with the romantic ballad "You Are So Beautiful" in 1975 and topped the charts in a duet with Jennifer Warnes on "Up Where We Belong," the theme from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. He has survived, still charting into the '90s, albeit with less frequency than he did in the '70s and '80s. He also continued to work throughout the new millennium. No Ordinary World was his first release since 1997's Across from Midnight. Respect Yourself appeared in 2002, and the covers album Heart & Soul followed in 2004. The European release Hymn for My Soul, which features cover versions of songs by Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, and John Fogerty, was issued on Parlophone in 2007. ~ Cub Koda & William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide