Singer Joe Cocker dies at 70


Joe Cocker, in one of his high-voltage performances at the Stadtparkbuehne stage, in Hamburg, Germany, in 2011. The rock singer has died at the age of 70. - EPA

Gravel-voiced British vocalist loses battle to lung cancer.

British vocalist Joe Cocker, whose blues-drenched, unfettered performances made him one of the most distinctive rock singers of the late '60s and early '70s, died Dec 22 in Colorado. He was 70 and had been battling lung cancer.

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