[2] Cocker was born in Sowerby Bridge,[3] Yorkshire, England, and became a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was awarded the Organ Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford, but never completed his degree after being sent down, on his own admission, for not doing enough work.
[4] Norman Cocker held the diploma of ARCO, obtained by examination in July 1911, winning the Lafontaine Prize for the highest marks that session in the playing tests.
[8] There is also a modern edition of four short organ pieces: Angelus, Trio, Interlude and Paean.
[10][11] Keith Swallow and John Wilson have recorded his Eight Piano Duets, Op.