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Images: Joe Cocker Through the Years

See recording artist Joe Cocker through the years. Cocker, best known for the songs, "You Are So Beautiful," and the 1980s duet "Up Where We Belong," with Jennifer Warnes, died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 of lung cancer in Colorado. He was 70.

In this Sept. 12, 2000 file photo, singer Joe Cocker poses in Central Park in New York. Cocker, best known for the songs, "You Are So Beautiful," and the 1980s duet "Up Where We Belong," with Jennifer Warnes, died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 of lung cancer in Colorado. He was 70. ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this March 23, 2002 file photo, British singer Joe Cocker performs during the television game show "Bet It...?!" ('Wetten Dass...?!') in Munich, southern Germany. Cocker, best known for the songs, "You Are So Beautiful," and the 1980s duet "Up Where We Belong," with Jennifer Warnes, died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 of lung cancer in Colorado. He was 70. ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Feb. 23, 1983 file photo, Joe Cocker, right, and Jennifer Warnes appear at the 25th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Cocker, best known for the songs, "You Are So Beautiful," and the 1980s duet "Up Where We Belong," with Jennifer Warnes, died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 of lung cancer in Colorado. He was 70. ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Feb. 2, 2013 file photo, British singer Joe Cocker speaks after receiving the lifetime achievement award for music during the 48th Golden Camera award ceremony in Berlin, Germany. Cocker, best known for the songs, "You Are So Beautiful," and the 1980s duet "Up Where We Belong," with Jennifer Warnes, died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 of lung cancer in Colorado. He was 70. ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this July 20, 2002 file photo, British Rock and Blues legend Joe Cocker performs on stage of the Stravinski hall during the Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland. Cocker, best known for the songs, "You Are So Beautiful," and the 1980s duet "Up Where We Belong," with Jennifer Warnes, died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 of lung cancer in Colorado. He was 70. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Musician Joe Cocker performs for the thousands of people attending the Woodstock Festival of Arts and Musik at Bethel, New York August 1969 ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this June 1970 photo released by Linda Wolf, British singer Joe Cocker appears in Los Angeles after the Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour and traveling party. Cocker, the raspy-voiced British singer known for his frenzied cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends," and the teary ballad "You Are So Beautiful," died of lung cancer on, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 in Colorado. He was 70. ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this June 1970 photo released by Linda Wolf, British singer Joe Cocker performs during the Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour and traveling party. Cocker, the raspy-voiced British singer known for his frenzied cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends," and the teary ballad "You Are So Beautiful," died of lung cancer on, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 in Colorado. He was 70. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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