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One Night Of Sin

It's been years since anyone expected greatness from a Joe Cocker album. True believers have come to rate Cocker's albums on a bell curve, getting by on the relative terseness of Sheffield Steel or the promising punch of last year's Unchain My Heart. The latter album was too slick and conformist for...

1989 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Sheffield Steel

1982

I Can Stand a Little Rain

1974

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

1970

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

1970

Joe Cocker!

1969

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British white-soul singer Joe Cocker parlayed Ray Charles?ish vocals and an eccentric stage presence into a string of late-'60s hits only to suffer from his excesses in drugs and alcohol by the mid-'70s. In the '80s and '90s, however, he went from tragic figure to well-respected interpreter, and his gritty, powerful voice remains one of the most distinctive in rock & roll.

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