Joe Cocker discography

This Joe Cocker discography lists the recordings plus live appearances of John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014), the English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and was most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of the Beatles.

Joe Cocker discography
Cocker performing; 16 October 1980 in the National Stadium, Dublin; Photo: Eddie Mallin
Studio albums22
Live albums9
Compilation albums14
Singles68

He received several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song "Up Where We Belong", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked No. 97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.[1]

Albums

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Studio

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Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[2]
AUS
[3]
CAN
[4]
FRA
[5][6]
GER
[7]
ITA
[8][9]
NDL
[10]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[12][13]
US
[14]
1969 With a Little Help from My Friends 29 40 35
Joe Cocker! 29 10 11
1972 Something To Say (a.k.a. Joe Cocker) 11 28 8 50 4 30
1974 I Can Stand a Little Rain 11 9 12 11
1975 Jamaica Say You Will 39 38 42
1976 Stingray 35 21 70
1978 Luxury You Can Afford 12 61 47 25 76
1982 Sheffield Steel 14 21 10 46 15 14 105
1984 Civilized Man 100 17 7 8 30 20 133
1986 Cocker 9 75 4 2 20 48 20 50
1987 Unchain My Heart 24 40 21 2 14 14 32 15 89
1989 One Night of Sin 34 60 2 4 15 20 21 52
1991 Night Calls (US – 1992) 25 19 60 19 6 9 18 3 27 111
1994 Have a Little Faith 9 23 6 3 20 2 15 7
1996 Organic 49 69 10 5 15 29 35
1997 Across from Midnight 94 90 5 3 2 27 37
1999 No Ordinary World (US – 2000) 63 12 3 30 50
2002 Respect Yourself 51 84 13 3 15 34
2004 Heart & Soul (US – 2005) 65 20 14 26 39 32 61
2007 Hymn for My Soul (US – 2008) 9 141 29 8 76 38
2010 Hard Knocks (US – 2012) 61 71 34 1 34 41 52
2012 Fire It Up 17 109 128 5 32
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live

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Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[2]
AUS
[3]
CAN
[4]
GER
[7]
ITA
[8][9]
NDL
[10]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[12][13]
US
[14]
1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen 16 3 2 9 2
1976 Live in L.A.
Space Captain
1981 Live in New York
(a.k.a. Spirit of Live Concert)
1990 Joe Cocker Live 17 46 5 8 21 2 33 95
1992 With a Little Help from My Friends Live – Great Hits in Concert 82
1999 Live at the Esquire Club
2001 Standing Here - Live in Colorado
2006 Mad Dogs & Englishmen: The Complete Fillmore East Concerts
2009 Live at Woodstock
2013 Fire It Up - Live
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Official compilations

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Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[2]
AUS
[3]
CAN
[4]
FRA
[5][6]
GER
[7]
ITA
[8][9]
NDL
[10]
NZ
[11]
SWE
[12][13]
US
[14]
1970 Portrait of Joe Cocker
1971 The Best of Joe Cocker 6
Cocker Happy 1 9 32
1972 Double Cocker Power!
1977 Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits 88 2 114
1983 The Best of Joe Cocker 1 32
1986 The Voice - The Very Best of Joe Cocker
1987 Definite 1964–1986 1
Classics, Volume 4 - Joe Cocker
1990 The Collection
1992 The Best of Joe Cocker 70 1 7 14 12 10 9
The Legend (Polygram) 4
Love Songs & Ballads 76
1993 The Legend (Essential Collection)
1995 The Essential 6
The Long Voyage Home (box set) 164
1998 Greatest Hits 24 1 10 24
1999 The Anthology
2003 Greatest Love Songs
The Ultimate Collection 1968-2003 8 80 11
2004 Ultimate Collection 122
2006 Gold
2007 Classic Cocker 38 9 167
2011 Icon
2015 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection 75
The Life of a Man: The Ultimate Hits 1968–2013 44 142 14 200 21
2016 The Album Recordings 1984–2007 (box set)
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Other albums

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  • 1967 Rag Goes Mad at the Mojo (EP compilation with two songs by Joe Cocker's Big Blues)
  • 1987 Unchain My Heart (EP, remix & live)
  • 1988 The 12 Mixes (mini-LP)
  • 1997 Special Beck's Edition
  • 2015 Joe Cocker in Interview with Robin Ross

Video/DVD

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  • 1970 Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (motion picture)
  • 1971 Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs & Englishmen (motion picture) (DVD – 2005)
  • 1986 Joe Cocker Music Video
  • 1990 A Tribute to John Lennon – Live ("Isolation")
  • 1992 The Best of Joe Cocker Live (Dortmund, Germany, 1992) (DVD – 2006)
  • 1994 Have A Little Faith (biography)
  • 1997 Joe Cocker Live: Across From Midnight Tour (Germany, 1997) (DVD – 2004)
  • 2001 Joe Cocker in Concert (Germany, 1996)
  • 2002 Joe Cocker Live (Italy, 1981)
  • 2002 Party at the Palace (London, 2002, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "All You Need Is Love")
  • 2003 Joe Cocker (DVD EP)
  • 2004 Joe Cocker Live: Across from Midnight Tour (Waldbuhne, Berlin, Germany, 1997)
  • 2004 The Best of Joe Cocker Live (Dortmund, Germany, 1992, and Cologne, Germany, 2002)
  • 2005 Feeling Alright*
  • 2005 Respect Yourself Live
  • 2005 Live at Montreux 1987
  • 2008 Cry Me A River (Rockpalast, 1983)

Notable guest appearances

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Singles

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Year Title Peak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[44]
AUS
[3][45]
AUT
[46]
BEL
[47]
CAN
[48]
FRA
[49][50]
GER
[51]
NL
[52]
SWI
[53]
US
[54]
1964 "I'll Cry Instead" Definite 1964 – 1986
1968 "Marjorine" 48 With a Little Help from My Friends
"With a Little Help from My Friends" 1 8 6 8 36 3 3 1 1 68
"Feeling Alright" 49 69
1969 "Delta Lady" 10 34 85 15 69 Joe Cocker!
"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" 31 18 30
1970 "The Letter" 39 37 7 48 27 7 Mad Dogs & Englishmen
"Cry Me a River" 45 15 15 7 13 11
1971 "Bird on the Wire" [Single release in Canada only] 78 Joe Cocker!
"High Time We Went" 25 8 21 13 16 22 Joe Cocker
1972 "Feeling Alright" [re-release] 35 11 33 With a Little Help from My Friends
"Midnight Rider" 49 29 27 Joe Cocker
1973 "Woman to Woman" 49 29 72 56
"Pardon Me Sir" 21 83 9 27 51
1974 "Put Out The Light" 98 41 46 I Can Stand a Little Rain
"I Can Stand a Little Rain"
1975 "You Are So Beautiful" 32 4 70 5
"It’s All Over But the Shoutin’" Jamaica Say You Will
1976 "The Jealous Kind" Stingray
"I Broke Down"
1978 "Fun Time" 44 43 Luxury You Can Afford
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" 62
"Lady Put the Light Out"
1981 "I'm So Glad I'm Standing Here Today"
The Crusaders featuring Joe Cocker
61 97 Standing Tall (The Crusaders)
"This Old World's Too Funky for Me"
The Crusaders featuring Joe Cocker
1982 "With a Little Help from My Friends" / "Delta Lady"
[double A-side UK re-release]
Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits
"Many Rivers to Cross" 38 Sheffield Steel
"Ruby Lee" 34 31
"Sweet Little Woman" 42
"Talking Back to the Night"
"Up Where We Belong"
with Jennifer Warnes
7 1 14 32 1 186 6 7 1 An Officer and a Gentleman (Soundtrack)
1983 "Threw It Away" 35 43 One More Time
1984 "Civilized Man" 58 49 Civilized Man
"Crazy in Love"
"There Goes My Baby" 51
"I Love the Night"
"Tempted"
"Even a Fool Would Let Go"
"Edge of a Dream" 70 38 69 Teachers (Soundtrack)
1985 "Shelter Me" 57 65 91 Cocker
1986 "Don't You Love Me Anymore" 99 (1988) 11 26 20
"You Can Leave Your Hat On" 23 48 60 13
"Heart of the Matter"
"Now That You're Gone" 33 18 The Best of Joe Cocker
1987 "Love Lives On" 22 Harry and the Hendersons (Soundtrack)
"Unchain My Heart" 46 17 40 25 33 27 15 Unchain My Heart
"A Woman Loves a Man" 88 30 63
"All Our Tomorrows" 64
1988 "Two Wrongs"
"With a Little Help from My Friends"
[UK re-release]
Definite 1964 – 1986
1989 "When the Night Comes" 65 39 9 23 25 29 7 11 One Night of Sin
"Fever" 112
"I'm Your Man" [Charting B-side to "Fever"] 60
"I Will Live for You" 134
"Up Where We Belong" [re-release]
Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
92 Definite 1964 – 1986
1990 "What Are You Doing with a Fool Like Me" 115 90 39 23 96 Joe Cocker Live
"You Are So Beautiful" (Live) 36
"You Can Leave Your Hat On" (Live Remix)
"Living in the Promiseland"
1991 "Night Calls" 133 11 37 44 Night Calls
"I Can Hear the River" —60 31
1992 "(All I Know) Feels Like Forever" 25 61 88 38 64 51 The Cutting Edge (Soundtrack)
"Now That the Magic Has Gone" 28 107 71 Night Calls(US Version)
"Love Is Alive" 72 Night Calls
"Unchain My Heart" (90's Version) 17 The Best of Joe Cocker
"Five Women" / "Unchain My Heart" (90's Version)
"When the Night Comes" [re-release] 61
1993 "Bye Bye Blackbird" Sleepless in Seattle (Soundtrack)
1994 "Summer in the City" 149 10 6 33 23 23 5 Have a Little Faith
"The Simple Things" 17 23 33 46 30
"Take Me Home"

with Bekka Bramlett

41 143
"Let the Healing Begin" 32 51 37
1995 "Have a Little Faith in Me" 67 106 51
"Highway Highway"
1996 "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" 53 152 22 58 64 45 Organic
"Into the Mystic"
1997 "Could You Be Loved" 96 188 39 77 88 46 Across from Midnight
"N'Oubliez Jamais" 11 7 10 61 72
"Tonight" 59 73 83
1998 "What Do I Tell My Heart?"
"What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted" 24 6 67 Greatest Hits
"That's All I Need to Know (Difenderò)" (Live)

with Eros Ramazzotti

37 86 Eros Live with Eros Ramazzotti
1999 "Different Roads" 118 60 68 91 No Ordinary World
"First We Take Manhattan" 74
"No Ordinary World"
"On My Way Home"
2000 "My Father's Son"
2002 "You Can't Have My Heart" 64 75 64 Respect Yourself
"Never Tear Us Apart" 85 38
"This Is Your Life"
2004 "Every Kind of People" Heart & Soul
"One"
2007 "Hymn 4 My Soul" 46 60 65 Hymn for My Soul
"Just Pass It On" 113
2010 "Hard Knocks" 66 65 Hard Knocks
"Unforgiven"
2012 "Fire It Up" 64 70 48 50 Fire It Up
2013 "I Come in Peace" 64 79
"Up Where We Belong" (Live) Fire It Up Live
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.
  • (1988) "Don't You Love Me Anymore" was not released in the UK until June 1988

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