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JOE COCKER

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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 #1 in the UK 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 US 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 US 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, albiet with less frequency than he did in the '70s and '80s. -- Cub Koda & William Ruhlmann

With a Little Help From My Friends (2002 Queen's Jubllee)

LINKS YEAR TITLE 1969 With a Little Help from My Friends 1969 Joe Cocker 1970 Mad Dogs and Englishmen 1974 I Can Stand a Little Rain 1975 Jamaica Say You Will 1976 Stingray 1976 Live in L.A. 1978 Luxury You Can Afford 1982 Sheffield Steel 1984 Civilized Man 1984 Off the Record 1986 Cocker 1987 Unchain My Heart 1989 One Night of Sin 1990 Live! 1992 Night Calls 1994 Have a Little Faith 1996 Organic 1997 Across from Midnight 2000 No Ordinary World

1969 With a Little Help from My Friends

01. Feelin' Alright 02. Bye Bye Blackbird 03. Change in Louise 04. Marjorine 05. Just Like a Woman 06. Do I Still Figure in Your Life

07. Sandpaper Cadillac 08. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 09. With a Little Help from My Friends 10. I Shall Be Released 11. The New Age of Lily 12. Something's Coming On

1969 Joe Cocker

01. Dear Landlord 02. Bird on a Wire 03. Lawdy Miss Clawdy 04. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window 05. Hitchcock Railway 06. That's Your Business

07. Something 08. Delta Lady 09. Hello Little Friend 10. Darling Be Home Soon 11. She's Good to Me 12. Let It Be

1970 Mad Dogs and Englishmen

01. Introduction 02. Honky Tonk Women 03. Introduction 04. Sticks and Stones 05. Cry Me a River 06. Bird on a Wire 07. Feelin' Alright 08. Superstar 09. Introduction 10. Let's Go Get Stoned 11. Blue Medley/I'll Drown in My Own Tears 12. When Something Is Wrong With My Baby

13. I've Been Loving You Too Long 14. Introduction 15. Girl from the North Country 16. Give Peace a Chance 17. Introduction 18. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window 19. Space Captain 20. The Letter 21. Delta Lady

1974 I Can Stand a Little Rain

01. Put Out the Light 02. I Can Stand a Little Rain 03. I Get Mad 04. Sing Me a Song 05. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

06. Don't Forget Me 07. You Are So Beautiful 08. It's a Sin When You Love Somebody 09. Performance 10. Guilty

1975 Jamaica Say You Will

1976 Stingray

01. The Jealous Kind 02. I Broke Down 03. You Came Along 04. Catfish 05. Moon Dew

06. The Man in Me 07. She Is My Lady 08. Worrier 09. Born Thru Indifference 10. A Song for You

1976 Live in L.A.

01. Dear Landlord 02. Early in the Mornin' 03. Didn't You Know You've Got to Cry 04. St. James Infirmary 05. Hitchcock Railway

06. Midnight Rider 07. What Kind of Man Are You? 08. High Time We Went 09. Love the One You're With

1978 Luxury You Can Afford

01. Fun Time 02. Watching the River Flow 03. Boogie Baby 04. A Whiter Shade of Pale 05. I Can't Say No 06. Southern Lady

07. I Know (You Don't Want Me No More) 08. What Did You Do to Me Last Night 09. Lady Put the Light Out 10. Wasted Years 11. I Heard It Through the Grapevine

1982 Sheffield Steel

01. Look What You've Done 02. Shocked 03. Sweet Little Woman 04. Seven Days 05. Marie

06. Ruby Lee 07. Many Rivers to Cross 08. So Good, So Right 09. Talking Back to the Night 10. Just Like Always

1984 Civilized Man

01. Civilized Man 02. There Goes My Baby 03. Come On In 04. Tempted 05. Long Drag Off a Cigarette

06. I Love the Night 07. Crazy in Love 08. A Girl Like You 09. Hold On (I Feel Our Love Is Changing) 10. Even a Fool Would Let Go

1984 Off the Record

1986 Cocker

01. Shelter Me 02. A To Z 03. Don't You Love Me Anymore 04. Living Without Your Love 05. Don't Drink the Water

06. You Can Leave Your Hat On 07. Heart of the Matter 08. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) 09. Love Is on a Fade 10. Heaven

1987 Unchain My Heart

01. Unchain My Heart 02. Two Wrongs 03. I Stand in Wonder 04. River's Rising 05. Isolation

06. All Our Tomorrows 07. A Woman Loves a Man 08. Trust in Me 09. The One 10. Satisfied

1989 One Night of Sin

01. When the Night Comes 02. I Will Live for You 03. I've Got to Use My Imagination 04. Letting Go 05. Just to Keep from Drowning 06. Unforgiving

07. Another Mind Gone 08. Fever 09. You Know We're Gonna Hurt 10. Bad Bad Sign 11. I'm Your Man 12. One Night of Sin

1990 Live!

01. Feelin' Alright 02. Shelter Me 03. Hitchcock Railway 04. Up Where We Belong 05. Guilty 06. You Can Leave Your Hat On 07. When the Night Comes 08. Unchain My Heart

09. With a Little Help from My Friends 10. You Are So Beautiful 11. The Letter 12. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window 13. High Time We Went 14. What Are You Doing With a Fool Like Me 15. Living in the Promiseland

1992 Night Calls

01. Feels Like Forever 02. I Can Hear the River 03. Now That the Magic Has Gone 04. Can't Find My Way Home 05. Night Calls 06. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

07. Love Is Alive 08. Five Women 09. Please No More 10. Out of Rain 11. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 12. When a Woman Cries

1994 Have a Little Faith

01. Let the Healing Begin 02. Have a Little Faith in Me 03. The Simple Things 04. Summer in the City 05. The Great Divide 06. Highway, Highway

07. Too Cool 08. Soul Time 09. Out of the Blue 10. Angeline 11. Standing Knee Deep in a River 12. Take Me Home

1996 Organic

01. Into the Mustic 02. Anybody Seen My Girl 03. Delta Lady 04. Heart Full of Rain 05. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 06. Many Rivers to Cross 07. High Lonesome Blue

08. Sail Away 09. You and I 10. Darling Be Home Soon 11. Dignity 12. You Can Leave Your Hat On 13. You Are So Beautiful 14. Can't Find My Way Home

1997 Across from Midnight

01. Tonight 02. Could You Be Loved 03. That's All I Need to Know 04. N'Oubliez Jamais 05. What Do I Tell My Heart? 06. Wayward Soul

07. Loving You Tonight 08. Across from Midnight 09. What Do You Say? 10. The Last One to Know 11. That's the Way Her Love Is 12. Need Your Love So Bad

2000 No Ordinary World

01. First We Take Manhattan 02. Different Roads 03. My Father's Son 04. While You See a Chance 05. She Believes in Me 06. No Ordinary World 07. Where Would I Be Now

08. Ain't Gonna Cry Again 09. Soul Rising 10. Naked Without You 11. Love to Lean On 12. On Way Home 13. Lied to Me 14. Love Made a Promise