UPDATED 9:07am: Rock star Joe Cocker has died after a battle with lung cancer.

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Joe Cocker is being remembered as the greatest rock/soul singer ever to come out of Britain.

He's died in the United States at the age of 70.

Cocker's agent Barrie Marshall says there was no one quite like him.

He came to prominence in the early 1960s, famous for his distinctive gravelly voice.

His cover of A Little Help From My Friends reached number one in the UK in 1968, and a year later he performed the song at the famous Woodstock Festival, which helped launch his career.

The rock and blues veteran died from lung cancer, leaving behind his wife Pam.