Joe is one of Britain's greatest unoriginals. Famous for making Ringo Starr's cheerful, and hopeful, Beatles number I'll Get By With A Little Help (From My Friends) into a big hit, the 60-year-old rocker from Sheffield covers yet more songs that appeal to him and, for what it's worth, me.

But he shouldn't have bothered. He can't match the originals but should have brought something fresh to them. He doesn't.

Joe has a distinctive style but his interpretations of What's Goin' On (Marvin Gaye), Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul McCartney) and Chain Of Fools (Aretha Franklin) don't add anything. He murders Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put A Spell On You, sung to perfection by Geordie Eric Burdon when he was an Animal in the Sixties. Cocker's cover is blown.

Updated: 08:55 Thursday, March 31, 2005