The pitch from the Piano Man came after Paul McCartney issued a public letter last month backing the fellow Brit who is on the ballot for the first time.

In my opinion, no one has since come even close to him as one of the great primal rock 'n' roll vocalists of all time.' ...

That became a watershed year in my life. That year, I attended the Woodstock festival, bought the first Led Zeppelin album and heard Joe Cocker sing 'With a Little Help From My Friends.' ...

Fotos Internationl / Getty Images Joe Cocker could feel the music channeling through his body as he began his final number on the Woodstock stage. With one hand, the singer mimed the song’s ...

The press hailed his first U.S. television performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969, and the following summer, Cocker played to half a million people at the historic Woodstock rock festival in ...

Cocker enjoyed a successful career from the late 1960s until his death from lung cancer in 2014 at age 70. Joe famously appeared at the 1969 Woodstock festival, and his performance of The Beatles ...

Larry Brennan clearly remembers the first time he heard Joe Cocker sing. He was a teenager living in Toronto and he went to a movie theatre to see a new concert documentary called Woodstock.

Billy Joel has joined Paul McCartney and ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons in calling for the induction of the legendary late British singer Joe Cocker into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Actually, Joel has ...

That same “watershed” year, Joel said he attended the Woodstock Festival ... I feel very strongly that Joe Cocker should be considered for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.” ...