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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Overview by Bud Scoppa, unpublished, 1982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 ...

Blind Faith: They're no group

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 ...

Joe Cocker!

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 ...

Leon Russell — Super Group?

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 ...

The Mad Dog Diary

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 ...

Joe Cocker

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 ...

Cocker Dies a Death

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 ...

Joe Cocker: Stingray (A&M)

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 ...

All Together Now: Joe Cocker

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 ...

Half-Cocker Power

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 ...

Joe Cocker: Soul Survivor

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 ...

Joe Cocker

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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