Joe Cocker, the British singer whose impassioned, gravel-voiced covers of popular rock and blues songs were an indelible sound of 1960s counterculture, has died at age 70 after a battle with lung cancer.
Cocker died Monday at his home in Colorado, first reported by U.K. websites The Yorkshire Post and ITV News, and later confirmed by the BBC.
Cocker lent his voice to the songs of many fellow rock artists, but none more memorably than The Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends," which he performed at Woodstock:
Cocker also had a major hit in 1982 with "Up Where We Belong," the theme song from An Officer and a Gentleman. Read more...
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