Joe Cocker had a 50 year career. Woodstock 1969 Cocker was 25, but had been singing for 5 years by then.
His duet with Jennifer Warnes was a 1983 Grammy winner. (Warnes and the Righteous Brothers are all from Orange County, California.)
Joe Cocker resided at and died, at Crawford, Colorado--a long ways from his origins in Sheffield, England.