RGG February 2015 - p.12
MARCH
26
Just send an email with
Hook
or
Seth
in the subject
to:
WIN TICKETS!
Dr Hook & the Medicine Show shortened in
to Dr Hook was an American rock band
formed around Union City New Jersey They enjoyed considerable commercial success in the
s with hit singles including "Sylvia's Mother" "The Cover of Rolling Stone" "A Little Bit
More" and "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" In addition to their own material
Dr Hook and the Medicine Show performed songs written by the poet Shel Silverstein The
band had eight years of regular chart hits in both the U S and the UK and greatest success
with their later gentler material as Dr Hook
When told by a club owner that they needed a name to put
on a poster in the window of his establishment Cummings
made a sign: "Dr Hook and the Medicine Show: Tonic for
the Soul" The "Hook" name was inspired by Sawyer's
eyepatch and a reference to "Captain Hook" of the Peter
Pan fairy tale though humorously because Captain Hook
was neither a doctor nor wore an eyepatch The "medicine
show" and "doctor" (referring to the shows common in the
th century) were intended as tongue in cheek support for
drug abuse Ray Sawyer lost an eye in a near fatal car crash
in Oregon in
and has worn an eyepatch ever since To
this day Sawyer is considered Dr Hook because of the
eyepatch he wears
Dr Hook
OEP LIVE! exclusively presents for the first time in the UK in many years...
...Dr Hook featuring Ray Sawyer
and
The Medicine Show
