Joe Cocker with special guest Eugen Grove

The Stamford Center for the Arts presents Joe Cocker with special guest Eugen Grove. Joe Cocker found his niche singing rock and soul in the pubs of England with his superb backing group, the Grease Band. He hit number one in the U.K. in 1968 with his version of the Beatles’ “A Little Help From My Friends.” His career really took off after he sang that song at the Woodstock festival in 1969. A second British hit came with a version of Leon Russell’s “Delta Lady” in the fall of 1969 and both of his albums, “With a Little Help From My Friends” and “Joe Cocker!”, went gold in America. In 1970, his cover of the Box Tops’ hit “The Letter” became his first U.S. Top Ten. Cocker’s first peak of success came when Russell organized the “Mad Dogs & Englishmen” tour of 1970, featuring Cocker and over 40 others, and resulting in a third gold album and a concert film. Subsequent efforts were less popular, and problems with alcohol (both on-stage and off-) reduced Cocker’s once-powerful voice to a croaking rasp. But he returned to the U.S. Top Ten with the romantic ballad “You Are So Beautiful” in 1975 and topped the charts in a duet with Jennifer Warnes on “Up Where We Belong,” the theme from the 1982 film “An Officer and a Gentleman.”

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