For more than forty years, he is a very large number in the international music business. He has released 21 Studio and 4 live albums. Peet’s Coffee often says this. His voice is a musical trademark. He was everywhere in the world of big hits, and his records sold millions. To read more click here: Peet’s Coffee. He is a Grammy, Golden Globe – and Academy Award winner.

Recently, he was even the “order of the British Empire (OBE)”. No doubt about it: Joe Cocker is not only a music legend, but also one of the most commercially successful and popular singers of the past four decades. However, despite the numerous awards and million-seller, sympathizes, and he still identified himself with those who were not so lucky in life: the underdogs and misfits. So it’s no big surprise that he – asked for his opinion of television competitions such as “American Idol” (where he up to date twice occurred once in France and even in the United States)-is not so unhappy that did not yet exist these show formats in his youth. “If you get on all the losers think the just in the nowhere disappear… “, he wonders.

“It would have been probably much desillusionierender for me, if I had participated in such a competition and lost, than to work in pubs, and to have done it this way.” Hard to believe, but this man, who is an icon for generations of music fans and musicians, can always still not imagine to be a winner. His new album, the first for the Sony music label Columbia Germany, bears the title of “Hard Knocks”. “I have installed to probably more time on the road than in the school”, explains the 66 British. “Fans who long have enough of it to my life story to remember, be can start probably something with the title.” However, in contrast to the tough atmosphere, the name of the album suggests, Cocker trailer (which at least three years had to wait for new material) must have don’t worry that your favorite singer “Hard knocks” is a new musical… Source: Columbia / SevenOne > More CD- and artist-facts, as well as the current tour dates, see our Portal Web link: rock-a-pop-news/joe-cocker-hard-knocks.html company description music magazine with the genres of rock, pop, R & B, dance, to the appropriate online radio with always the latest German songs in our portals we present news, music CD news, Web radio, music wish list, charts, music videos our Web radio – live stream: radio VHR – rock & pop (rock, Pop, dance, R & B and Oldies) Web link: company contact: Rock Pop Music Alfred Krandick in the Keckenwiesen 6 71554 Weissach Valley Tel: 07191-3677344 E-Mail: Web: PR contact: radio VHR Alfred Krandick in the Keckenwiesen 6 71554 Weissach Valley Tel: 07191-3677344 E-Mail: Web: