Joe Cocker's Island Renaissance
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 Englishmen, has come back more like mad dogs the result of Schlitzes and screwdrivers served on the four-hour cruise.
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