The Joe Cocker Ritual Sacrifice
Keith Altham, NME, 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) and the initial mis-fire at New York's Madison Square Gardens on his resurrection with the Chris Stainton band.
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