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Joe Cocker’s Family Reacts to the Late Singer’s ‘Long Overdue’ Rock Hall Induction
Joe Cocker's family reacts to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction news.
Joe Cocker ‘s older brother Victor had something of a front row seat for his sibling’s first steps toward the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame while they were growing up in Sheffield, England. Best known for Billboard Hot 100 hits such as “Delta Lady,” covers of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends” and “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window,” “You Are So Beautiful” and the chart-topping “Up Where We Belong,” a Grammy Award-winning duet with Jennifer Warnes from An Officer and a Gentleman, Cocker will be one of seven performers voted into the shrine, joining Chubby Checker, Bad Company, Cyndi Lauper, Outkast, Soundgarden and the White Stripes. “He never went to a performance, whereas my mum used to go and see Joe sing.” Harold Cocker did help his younger son deal with Inland Revenue tax issues in the U.K., however, while Vic recalls finding a six-figure check for royalties from 1970’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen album that his brother never deposited.
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