The late Joe Cocker is a contender for this year's class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and Paul McCartney is on his side. The Beatles star wrote a letter to the Rock Hall - an international voting panel composed of more than a thousand artists,

Paul McCartney is petitioning for late English blues-rock singer Joe Cocker to be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame this year. In a letter dated Feb. 25, and addressed to “rock and rollers,” McCartney described Cocker,

The Beatles icon Sir Paul McCartney has thrown his support behind late singer Joe Cocker among this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees.

Paul McCartney is trying to give one of his old friends a little help to get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. He’s circulating a letter to voters for the Rock Hall to consider voting for the late Joe Cocker for induction.