The English belter died at age 70 in 2014. By Gary Graff 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 ...

This combination of photos shows Cubby Checker at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York on June 12, 2014, left, British singer Joe Cocker performing in Monaco on Aug. 5, 2011 ...

Cocker once played Sir Morgan's Cove, two months after the Rolling Stones. Joe Cocker is going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cocker died Dec. 22, 2014, of lung cancer.

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.

First-time nominees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker and Bad Company will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes pop star Cyndi Lauper, the hip-hop pioneers Outkast ...

NEW YORK — First-time nominees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker and Bad Company will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes pop star Cyndi Lauper, the hip-hop ...

NEW YORK — First-time nominees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker and Bad Company will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes pop star Cyndi Lauper, the hip-hop pioneers ...

But the legend around the disappointing concert provides Cocker with a metaphor for how nostalgia polishes bad memories. The universe shrugged, shrugged, then moved on.” Cocker also ...

He’s been eligible since the Hall started inducting artists in 1986. The late Joe Cocker, the Woodstock hero who was one of rock’s great interpretive stylists, also made it. He’d been ...