R.I.P. Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker, aged 70, has died. The most famous covers-artist in the world – the man who made his name singing the songs other people wrote – has succumbed to lung cancer. Death was always going to get him – he cheated it across his 20s and 30s. Cleaned up, got a bit healthy because he needed to and settled into working the world, touring with a sharp ba…