Dimensions
159 x 241 x 32mm
Joe Cocker is a rock music legend. A gas fitter who went from playing Sheffield pubs to the stadiums of the world, he was the man who no one - not even himself - expected to survive to the age of thirty. Now, approaching his sixtieth birthday and having recovered his life and career, he has cooperated with this full and frank biography to tell of all the highs and lows of his remarkable journey.
Joe Cocker has talked to biographer JP Bean with an honesty rare in rock stars - about his heroin addiction, alcoholism, the arrests that got him thrown in jail, the demons that haunted him for years. But most of all this is an uplifting story of an ordinary man who lit up America like a beacon in the night, was written off as a shambolic wreck and then - against all the odds - climbed back to become an even bigger star than he was first time around.
