Death of Joe Cocker

May 20, 1944 - December 22, 2014
Colorado | Age 70

Singer best known for his cover of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends' has died
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By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Cocker, the raspy-voiced British singer known for his frenzied cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends," the teary ballad "You Are So Beautiful" and a contorted performing style uncannily parodied by John Belushi on "Saturday Night Live," has died. He was 70.

His London-based agent, Barrie Marshall, said Cocker died Monday of lung cancer in Colorado, where he has lived for the past two decades.

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