One truly amazing and original voice went silent today. Joe Cocker OBE, a man who had more soul than most of us have blood cells, has lost his battle with lung cancer.
It’s hard to say whether he was best known for his own incomparable singing, his energized stage presence, his solitary and well-earned position as the best coverer of Beatles tunes…or for the eerily accurate way in
which his persona was once captured and recreated by the equally incomparable John Belushi.
Doesn’t matter—he was a package deal. All of those things and more synchronized into the being of one of the finest performers any of us will ever see. He’ll be sorely missed.
