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Joe Cocker: The A&M Years 1968-1976
Overview by Bud Scoppa, unpublished, 1982
BETWEEN THE YEARS 1968 and 1976, Joe Cocker recorded his first seven albums (all released on A&M). These recordings were composed of a wonderfully diverse ...
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The Byrds, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Move, Joe Cocker: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 July 1968
Bonzo's brilliance steals the show ...
NME Reporters Cover the Weekend's Major Event — the Eighth National Jazz and Blues Festival
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...
Joe Cocker: John And Paul Send Their Thanks To Joe
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 12 October 1968
"WITH A Little Help From Our Friends" Lennon and McCartney, 23-year-old Sheffield born, Joe Cocker makes a welcome appearance in our charts this week with ...
Joe Cocker: They Said... It Couldn't Be Done But... Joe Did It!
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 19 October 1968
THEY SAID it couldn't be done... couldn't be done... couldn't be done. But Joe Cocker's done it. ...
Joe Cocker: I'm Not A Pop Pin-Up... I'm Gruesome
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 26 October 1968
NME's Keith Altham quizzes a happy JOE COCKER who this week leaps to No 6. ...
Joe Cocker: Soul Sheffield Style
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 26 October 1968
WHICH pop star uses the Mario Lanzo method? You're wrong – it's not Tiny Tim, it's our old blues shouting, Beatle bellowing mate Joe Cocker! ...
I'm Such a Funny Item To Try and Sell, says Joe Cocker
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 9 November 1968
AT THE time of writing, Joe Cocker is threatening the long standing Mary Hopkin and vying with menace for that number one chart position. The ...
Joe Cocker: Joe gets by, with a little help from fags
Report by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 9 November 1968
Day in the life of Joe Cocker by CAROLINE BOUCHER ...
Tiny Tim, Joe Cocker et al: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 9 November 1968
ONCE UPON a time in the land of the Charity, a concert was given in aid of all the boys' clubs all over the country. ...
Tiny Tim, Joe Cocker, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 9 November 1968
TINY'S BIG HIT ...
Joe Cocker: Hit Single Was Just A Fluke
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 November 1968
New LP is much more important he tells RICHARD GREEN ...
Joe Cocker: the Wild Man of the North
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, December 1968
RAVE's Maureen O'Grady tells why gas-fitter Joe Cocker will never go back to installing cookers and sleeping in the park... ...
Joe Cocker: 'U.S.'s Only Culture is Black'
Profile and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1969
LONDON – Joe Cocker, the frizzy-haired new idol of the English pop scene, lives modestly in a first floor bed sitter in South Kensington. You ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 April 1969
Island Records boss CHRIS BLACKWELL talks to Richard Green ...
Joe Cocker: With a Little Help From My Friends (A&M SP 4182)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1969
Singer Has Help From Ray Charles ...
Joe Cocker: On Stage Joe's Strong Otherwise He's Groggy
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 1969
JOE COCKER isn't the best known name in the land. In fact when it was announced he was coming to town everybody asked, "Who's Joe ...
Joe Cocker, Grease Band: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 1969
JOE COCKER and the Grease Band proved the most exciting British rock band to visit America since the Who in their weekend performance at the ...
Joe Cocker, Big Mama Thornton, Lonnie Mack, Sweetwater: Magic Circus, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1969
Soul Music Presented at the Magic Circus ...
Newport '69 Pop Festival: Rock Festival Fiasco
Report by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 5 July 1969
NOW THAT the Newport '69 Pop Festival (called that to borrow a little of the fame from the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, but actually ...
Joe Cocker: A New Blues Boy Blows In From Britain
Interview by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 3 August 1969
JOE COCKER, the most recently emerged and most wildly received British soul artist since Stevie Winwood (of the Spencer Davis Group and later Traffic and ...
Joe Cocker & The Grease Band: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 10 August 1969
Joe Cocker and the Grease Band Sound Off at the Fillmore East ...
Joe Cocker: With A Little Help From My Friends
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1969
Joe Cocker and the Grease Band were ending a performance they gave recently at the Whiskey in Los Angeles. As they went into their explosive ...
Bob Dylan et al: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 6 September 1969
200,000 roar approval including John, George, Ringo and wives! But Dylan didn't quite sink Isle of Wight, reports Richard Green ...
Why Did Cocker's White Soul Fail?
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 18 October 1969
ROYSTON ELDRIDGE TALKING TO JOE COCKER ON THE EVE OF AN AMERICAN TOUR ...
Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, November 1969
OF ALL the rock stars, past or present, you could meet, Joe Cocker probably ranks with the two or three least interesting conversationalists. Not that ...
Leon's 'Lady' lucky for Joe Cocker
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 15 November 1969
Transatlantic interview by RICHARD GREEN ...
Joe Cocker: Joe Cocker! (Regal Zonophone stereo SLRZ 1011, 37s. 5d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969
CREDIT TO ALL FOR JOE COCKER'S U.S. LP ...
Cocker and that Boogaloo Sound
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 21 February 1970
JOHN COCKER stopped fitting pipes for the Gas Board in order to exercise his own somewhat steely vocal tubes that were forged, in those early ...
The Joe Cocker Show... Mad Dogs And Englishmen
Report and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1970
THE DISCOVERY OF CANINA, A MOST SPECIAL PET (AND, COINCIDENTALLY, LEON RUSSELL, A MOST SPECIAL MUSICIAN) ...
Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Van Morrison, the Stonemans: Fillmore West, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 24 April 1970
Cocker's Classy Collection of Rock Freaks ...
Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 2 May 1970
COCKER SURVIVES AND TRIUMPHS ...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 16 May 1970
THERE ARE GROUPS, super-groups and super-super-groups. But there must be a new name for a combination of Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, ...
Woodstock (Import Cotillion SD3-500)
Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 4 July 1970
BONUS TRACKS ON WOODSTOCK GIANT ...
Sleeve notes by John Mendelssohn, 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' (A&M Records), August 1970
11th MARCH 1970. Joe Cocker flies into Los Angeles with the intentions of recuperating from grueling months on the road and forming a new band ...
Leon Russell: King of the Delta Rockers
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 29 August 1970
Top US session man LEON RUSSELL talks to Mark Plummer. ...
Curtis Mayfield: Curtis (Curtom); Joe Cocker: Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen (A&M)
Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 1 September 1970
Mayfield, Solo, Comes on Strong ...
Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen (stereo A&M SP 6002; 59s. 11d.)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 5 September 1970
Fantastic, fiery Cocker ...
Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen (A&M Film))
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Cromelin, Creem, June 1971
Something Like a Rock'n'Roll Tour ...
Joe Cocker: Why The Cut in Cockerpower?
Report by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 22 January 1972
WHEN JOE Cocker came back to Britain at the end of 1970, went back home to Sheffield and word got around to a stunned music ...
The Producers: Glyn Johns — Why I'm working on Paul's album
Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 26 February 1972
"IT'S ALL BULL. Having offices and secretaries and all the moodies and the phones. It's just crap. It's nothing to do with making records. Making ...
Cordell, the Coaxer Behind Cocker
Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 4 March 1972
DENNY CORDELL roamed around the music business in London during the early sixties before discovering the Moody Blues and consequently becoming their producer. He assisted ...
Joe Cocker: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Lenny Kaye, New Musical Express, 25 March 1972
Cocker On Stage A Big Let-Down. A Disillusioned Lenny Kaye Reports New York Opening ...
Joe Cocker: I Almost Forgot What Rock 'N' Roll Was All About
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 13 May 1972
THE CURRY looked sort of ropey. It had probably been frozen for a lifetime between cardboard. Joe Cocker examined it incredulously, sifting it through his ...
The Joe Cocker Ritual Sacrifice
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 May 1972
WE APOLOGISE for the slight reduction in Cocker-power but it now looks as though normal service has been resumed following the one year strike (respite) ...
Beach Boys, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Melanie, Sha Na Na: Crystal Palace Bowl, London
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972
Soakin' At The Palace: TONY STEWART reviews the Garden Party that should have been a lot better ...
Pub Fights, Gales, Oldies: The Gt. Western Festival Saga
Report by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 6 July 1972
LONDON — "Somebody leaped out at her from behind some bushes in our driveway," explained a seething Lieut-Col. Michael Underwood, "and gave her a black ...
Cocker: When The Strain Begins To Show
Report by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 8 July 1972
JAMES JOHNSON reports on the EUROPEAN TOUR ...
Cocker Power: Are The Mains Being Turned Off?
Report and Interview by Derek Grant, Beat Instrumental, September 1972
MANY UNCOMPLIMENTARY words have been written in the music press recently about the return of Joe Cocker to the rock and roll fold after a ...
A&M Records: Two Lonely Bulls & How They Grew
Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 12 October 1972
LOS ANGELES — Ten years ago this month Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert put their initials together and formed a record company that has since ...
Joe Cocker: They Put Me In The Same Cell As A Bank Robber And A Murder Suspect
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 18 November 1972
IT SEEMS that life is still intent on batting Joe Cocker about the head with all the subtlety of a navvy driving a tin-tack into ...
Joe Cocker: 'With A Song In Your Heart'
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 18 November 1972
JOE COCKER has had a pretty heavy day of it so far. Two Australians had been gritting their teeth at him... 'Was it true that ...
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 27 January 1973
SO WHAT'S this? Joe Cocker talking to the Press? Can it be Sheffield's own recluse-superstar, the man who returned from the Godforsaken land of Rock'n'Roll ...
Denny Cordell: The Cordial Englishman
Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 8 June 1974
DENNY CORDELL is not at all like my image of him. Well in fact, I didn't know what to expect but he was not like ...
Report by Jacoba Atlas, Melody Maker, 15 June 1974
LOS ANGELES — There ought to be some delicate way of putting this, but there really isn't. Joe Cocker opened and closed at the Roxy ...
Joe Cocker: Roxy Theatre, L.A.
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, August 1974
IT MUST BE TOUGH to always be coming back instead of going ahead. Joe Cocker is always coming back, like flowers you'd forgotten had been ...
Joe Cocker: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1974
WELL, HE went on. Stood out there in the spotlight and sang. Out in the street the freeloaders and ticket beggars were truly frenzied, having ...
Joe Cocker: I Can Stand A Little Rain
Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, November 1974
ONE APPROACHES a new Joe Cocker album in the same way one peers back at a road accident – to see if what's there is ...
Joe Cocker: Jamaica Say You Will (A&M)
Review by Colman Andrews, Creem, November 1975
IT'S MY theory that any LP with ten tracks and 13 recording engineers is in trouble to begin with. But never mind. ...
Joe Cocker: Stingray (A&M) *****
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 June 1976
IT SPEAKS VOLUMES that whatever the ups and downs of Joe Cocker's personal life when he gets back in the studio or out on the ...
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 10 July 1976
SPEAKING AS someone who knows little more about Joe Cocker than he does about me, I am perhaps not the most fitting person in the ...
Joe Cocker: Live In LA (Cube) ***
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 December 1976
THIS ALBUM opens with the unctuous voice of the compere saying "Thank you for your patience ladies and gentlemen" which has a certain irony as ...
Part Two Of The Joe Cocker Story
Retrospective and Interview by John Tobler, Blank Space, 1979
PICKING UP FROM last time, we left Joe and the Grease Band about to part company, and go home to England for a holiday. Now ...
Part Three of the Joe Cocker Story
Profile and Interview by John Tobler, Blank Space, May 1979
PICKING UP THE threads, the time is 1976, and between albums Joe Cocker was reported to have wanted to make a film about violence. Is ...
Joe Cocker: Sheffield Steel (Island)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 June 1982
LIFE IN THE upper echelons of Island Records would currently seem to be taking on a pleasingly surreal texture. One can just imagine the dialogue: ...
Joe Cocker's Island Renaissance
Report and Interview by Fred Schruers, Musician, July 1982
THE NOONDAY sun has come and gone over the town of Nassau, the Bahamas, and Joe Cocker's afternoon boating party, which left port as proper ...
Joe Cocker Visits My Hometown! Wow!
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, November 1982
THE W'S: Joe Cocker grew up in Sheffield, which is north of England way. I grew up in Livonia, Michigan, which is like most of ...
Jennifer Warnes: With a little help...
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 12 February 1983
WHEN JOE Cocker met Jennifer Warnes, he didn't know who she was. She, however, had first seen Cocker's appearance on America's Grammy Awards and been ...
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, May 1992
After two decades blurred by addiction, tragedy and confusion, Joe Cocker is back in the saddle and preparing to mount a well-timed comeback. "I just ...
Woodstock II: Sodden Life Is Rubbish
Report by John Harris, New Musical Express, 27 August 1994
Take 250,000 hippy children (Please! — Ed) and baby boomers reliving the 'glories' of the '60s, stick them in a sea of mud and charge ...
Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, October 1994
"MUSHING, UH, I MEAN MOSHING," says Joe Cocker when asked to explain the difference between Woodstocks '69 and '94, after playing a standout festival opener. ...
Joe Cocker: The Long Voyage Home
Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, February 1996
MARTIN KEELEY'S front cover photo for Joe Cocker's first album named, of course, for his transformative cover of With A Little Help From My ...
Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 18 October 2005
EVEN JOE COCKER finds it amusing he should be staying in his hotel in Denmark under an alias. After all, he's hardly fan-bait as a ...
School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008
BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, November 2010
HE'S 66, IT'S 54 years since he first sang in public, and 41 since he captivated Woodstock, so Joe Cocker says he's slightly bemused that ...
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