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== Personal life and death== In 1963, Cocker began dating Eileen Webster, also a resident of Sheffield. The couple dated intermittently for the next 13 years.{{sfn|Bean|2003|p=15}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joe Cocker |url=https://en.24smi.org/celebrity/55167-joe-cocker.html |access-date=2021-01-11 |website=en.24smi.org |language=en}}</ref> In 1978, Cocker moved onto a ranch owned by [[Jane Fonda]] in [[Santa Barbara, California]]. Pam Baker, a local summer camp director and fan of Cocker's music, had persuaded the actress to lend the house to Cocker. Baker began dating Cocker, and they married on 11 October 1987.{{sfn|Bean|2003|p=171}} While performing a concert at [[Madison Square Garden]] on 17 September 2014, fellow pop musician [[Billy Joel]] stated that Cocker was "not very well right now" and endorsed Cocker for induction into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] before his tribute performance of "With a Little Help from My Friends".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/joe-cocker-health/ |title=Billy Joel Says Joe Cocker Is 'Not Very Well Right Now' |first=Jeff |last=Giles |publisher=Ultimate Rock Classic.com |date=25 September 2014 |access-date=31 October 2014}}</ref> Cocker died from [[lung cancer]] on 22 December 2014 in Crawford, Colorado at the age of 70.<ref name="Indep23dec14">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/joe-cocker-formidable-vocalist-who-triumphed-at-woodstock-and-won-a-grammy-with-up-where-we-belong-9943221.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/joe-cocker-formidable-vocalist-who-triumphed-at-woodstock-and-won-a-grammy-with-up-where-we-belong-9943221.html |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Joe Cocker: Formidable vocalist who triumphed at Woodstock and won a Grammy with 'Up Where We Belong'|work=The Independent|date=23 December 2014|access-date=24 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/story/2014-12-22/joe-cocker-dies-aged-70/ |title=Joe Cocker dies aged 70 |work=ITV News |access-date=22 December 2014 |date=22 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.wlox.com/story/27687382/musician-joe-cocker-dies-at-age-70 |title=Musician Joe Cocker dies at age 70 |publisher=WLOX |date=22 December 2014 |access-date=22 December 2014 |first=Matt |last=Quillen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222204927/http://www.wlox.com/story/27687382/musician-joe-cocker-dies-at-age-70 |archive-date=22 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He had smoked two packs of cigarettes a day until he quit in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2000-10-17/news/0010160490_1_joe-camel-smoking-joe-cocker |title=Time And Trials Refine The Song Of Joe Cocker |website=Articles.sun-sentinel.com |access-date=25 January 2018 |archive-date=6 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006232218/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2000-10-17/news/0010160490_1_joe-camel-smoking-joe-cocker |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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