Even better is that with his new album Hard Knocks another reflection of one's own biography is available in musical form now is. He never complained about for themselves, to be the great innovator, much of that has made him famous, were cover versions that convinced by his personal, rough, proletarian empathetic touch. The man who is often struck the pavement, through debt, booze and violence, which has learned from the wild times in decades, there is right takes out telling convincing in his songs about it.
The title song Hard Knocks is a hymn to the honesty to himself. Without heroisieren told Cocker from the beatings he had to plug in like a boxer on the ropes. And it sounds like a mockery of the contemporary world in which the Botox driven camouflage to eliminate the history of the faces that Cocker the scars and bruises that he suffered in the life struggles, proudly on his chest bears as orders from the large Patriotic War. Despite all the injuries are the strokes and their consequences needs on their own path of liberation.
And so the album should be read as a conclusion from the considerations of the struggle for survival. Get On, So It Goes, Stay The Same are all titles that are in this line and not leave room for a misunderstood sentimentality that uses no anything. On the contrary, in Thankful will even thanked for a way of life, which was or would have demanded not price anything but easy. The fact that he partially taking into his rancor as in Unforgiven with him, is there only human, and he concludes his reflection on one's own history with I Hope testifies to the unbroken will of today 66jährigen singer.
It is hard to believe, but Hard Knocks dates back to a time when there was talk of concept albums, as it represented no excessive demands on the audience to have a more complex relationship act on the senses. Joe Cocker, the Scarred, the Unbroken, the proletarians, he is on his way, and that is to offer honesty hardly.
