Joe Cocker died on this day, December 22, 2014, in Crawford, Colorado, at the age of 70. No mystery as to the cause of death. He smoked forty cigarettes a day.

Joe Cocker died on this day, December 22, 2014, in Crawford, Colorado, at the age of 70. No mystery as to the cause of death. He smoked forty cigarettes a day.
Paul McCartney said of Joe Cocker’s version of the Beatles 1967 song With a Little Help From My Friends: “It was mind-blowing, he totally turned the song into a soul anthem.”