When singer Rita Coolidge attended the premiere of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, the 1971 doc that chronicled the Joe Cocker–fronted tour of the same name, the experience was far from celebratory. “I started ...

On this day, December 22, 2025, marks the 11th anniversary of the death of Joe Cocker – an artist whose voice has been indelibly etched into the collective musical memory. Eleven years ago, he passed ...

Cocker performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and charted 19 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including familiar recordings like 1968's "With a Little Help From My Friends" By Jason Lipshutz, ...

Cocker once played Sir Morgan's Cove, two months after the Rolling Stones. Joe Cocker is going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cocker died Dec. 22, 2014, of lung cancer. He was 70.

If you missed the live Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in November, on Jan. 1 ABC will air a primetime special ...

Joe Cocker has been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame since the mid ’90s, but his first ever nomination didn’t arrive until 2025, over a decade since his passing in 2014. Cocker, who was born ...

Soulful English rock ‘n’ roll vocalist Joe Cocker would have turned 75 today. Cocker was unparalleled when it came to his rough-throated, immediately recognizable vocals and his erratic live shows, ...

"To make a hit that was already a hit ... an even bigger hit, that's hard to do," said Phillip Phillips of the late singer. By Michele Amabile Angermiller When Casey Abrams competed on the tenth ...

There once was a glorious age of Music Journalism Past, an era when the magical could happen. A time when interviews with rock stars weren’t 15-minute phoners with a publicist listening in, or concert ...

NEW YORK (AP) — First-time nominees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker and Bad Company will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes pop star Cyndi Lauper, the hip-hop ...

Save for a reggae-spun "Summer in the City," Joe Cocker keeps his renditions of others' works faithful to original recordings these days. It can make for a bit of a humdrum record, as on his latest, ...

The estate of legendary British singer Joe Cocker has entered into an agreement with Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group to acquire and develop the singer’s five-decade catalog. The acquisition ...