“They put me in a cell with a bank robber and a murderer. The bank robber seemed like a nice bloke. Said he had all my albums”: The wild life and crazy times of Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker posing for a photograph in 1970.

A bluff Yorkshireman with the voice of an American soulman, Joe Cocker was one of the unlikeliest success stories of the late 60s and early 70s, racking up a series of hits, embarking on a series of epic tours and indulging in the rock’n’roll lifestyle. In 2013, a year before his death, he looked back on a career that took him from Sheffield to superstardom.

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