Discover What’s Streaming On: It’s one of the enduring images of 1969’s Woodstock Festival: a bedraggled Joe Cocker sweating through his tie-dye, spasmodically playing air-guitar and singing The ...

Joe Cocker met his idol Ray Charles in 1969 when he got invited backstage after a concert at Carnegie Hall. It was the first time he came face to face with the musical genius who had inspired him as a ...

Joe Cocker remembers getting stoned in Italy - literally. Cocker made the mistake of skipping one of his signature songs during a concert. "People get a bit upset when I don't do their favorites," ...

Cocker performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and charted 19 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including familiar recordings like 1968's "With a Little Help From My Friends" By Jason Lipshutz, ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Fifty years ago, a Portland musician performed at what many call the greatest music festival of all time. Bobby Torres played the conga with Joe Cocker’s The Grease Band at ...

Editor’s note: This story originally published Dec. 22, 2014. It is resurfacing following the anniversary of Joe Cocker’s death. Even by the wild and woolly standards of rock music in the late 1960s, ...

On this day, December 22, 2025, marks the 11th anniversary of the death of Joe Cocker – an artist whose voice has been ...

Cocker was known for his powerful, gravelly voice and his eccentric body movements while performing. He had his biggest success as an interpreter of songs by other artists and composers, although he ...

Singer Joe Cocker, whose huge raspy voice and even bigger stage presence thrilled rock audiences at Woodstock and beyond, has died. He was 70. His London-based agent, Barrie Marshall, told the ...