Actually, Joel has been campaigning for Cocker to be inducted into the Rock Hall since 2014, but a video of him reading a letter he wrote back then was just publicly posted last week via Cocker’s official Instagram account.
In the clip from 2016, also posted to YouTube by documentarian John Edginton, Joel explains that he wrote the letter on Cocker’s behalf when the singer was seriously ill with cancer.
He then goes on to read the letter. “As a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1999, it has been one of my finest hopes to see Joe Cocker inducted into it as well,” Joel says in the video. “When I first heard him in 1969, I was very inspired by the sound of his incredibly raw and soulful vocal style.”
“I thought Joe was the most powerful rock and roll interpretive male singer I had heard since first hearing the iconic recordings of Ray Charles. In my opinion no one has since come even close to him as one of the great primal rock ‘n’ roll vocalists of all time. I feel very strongly that Joe Cocker should be considered for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I hope you will consider putting his name on the voting ballot this year. Sincerely, Billy Joel.”
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McCartney expressed his support for Cocker last month. Gibbons soon followed calling Cocker “the very embodiment of rock and roll in terms of talent and spirit.”
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