Joe Cocker: Why The Cut in Cockerpower?
Penny Valentine, Sounds, 22 January 1972
WHEN JOE Cocker came back to BritÂain at the end of 1970, went back home to Sheffield and word got around to a stunned music world that it was going to be a long time before he got back on stage and sang again, it was the end of an era.
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