Joe Cocker: Roxy Theatre, L.A.
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 there last year until they sprout again at your feet.
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