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A Man Called
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Guitar Towns: A Journey to the
Crossroads of Rock 'n' Roll
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297:500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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2691:Joe Cocker Classics Volume 4
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2005:"RPM's Top 100 of 1970"
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2385:Joe Cocker!
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2190:Rick Pipkin
2159:Barry Walsh
2141:Gary Talley
2081:December 3,
1390:"Hot 100".
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955:Billboard's
828:Producer(s)
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319:he gave to
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2820:Categories
2698:The Legend
2610:The Letter
2525:Fire It Up
2392:Joe Cocker
2350:Joe Cocker
2258:The Letter
2236:Dimensions
2193:Joe Savage
2181:John Evans
2165:Rick Allen
1828:Joe Cocker
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992:Australia
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867:The Letter
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718:Joe Cocker
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285:Joe Cocker
257:The Letter
189:The Letter
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585:Top 100
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483:Austria
399:sampling
394:The Wire
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329:Dan Penn
167:Dan Penn
107:Pop rock
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