Legendary JOE COCKER is set to make an impressive return.

Following on from the resounding success of his 2010 platinum-selling, number-one album 'Hard Knocks', the Grammy-Award winner delivers the outstanding follow up album; 'Fire It Up'.

For his 23rd album Cocker returned to Matt Serletic's (Matchbox Twenty, Santana, Rob Thomas, Collective Soul) Californian Emblem Studios, and together they have produced an album full of powerful, expressive songs:

"Making an album, to me, is a bit like making a painting. You know, you’ve got 12 songs, and it’s colour – I don’t like everything to be one mood.”

The first single will be 'Fire It Up', treating us with an irresistible taste of the album.

Matt Serletic about the passionate song: “There’s this whole energy which we captured”.

The album 'Fire It Up' will be released on Friday 2nd November, 2012.