Joe Cocker
"Leon [Russell] came up with the idea for Mad Dogs. Having come out of the Mad Dogs tour with no money never really bothered me. Back then, the feeling was, it was a crime to have money anyway. We were into this trip of stripping off our worldly goods."
Joe Cocker was the only A&M artist to perform at Woodstock in August 1969.
The first movie produced by A&M Records was 1971's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," a Joe Cocker tour retrospective.
In March 1971, A&M Records released a Joe Cocker single in Canada, "Bird on the Wire" which was not released in the U.S.
In early 1973, Joe Cocker re-signed with A&M Records.
Joe Cocker was voted 97 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Sources
- Cocker Single Follows Rule. Billboard, March 37, 1971.
- Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music. Joe Smith. New York: Warner Books. 1988.
Official Site
http://www.cocker.com.
Birth
Death
Recording Years / Label
1968-1976 -
A&M Records
Instruments
vocals