Fifty years ago this week — on March 29, 1973, to be exact — the ragged New Jersey country-rock band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show got their wish: Rolling Stone put them on the cover. In 1967, ...

Some moments of a musicians long career in rock ‘n’ roll, especially one as adventure-filled as that of Ray Sawyer of Dr. Hook, are unforgettable. “The Cover of the Rolling Stone,” the band’s biggest ...

Dr. Hook proved to be among the most resilient hitmakers of the 70s. With each new change in musical tastes, the band managed to find songs that fit. Considering that they generally relied on outside ...

Of all the bands who scored Yacht Rock success, Dr. Hook stood out as perhaps the most malleable of them all. They changed their sound, their look, and even their name at one point, all in an effort ...

Ray Sawyer, the Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show member who sang the 1973 Shel Silverstein-penned hit “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone,'” has died at the age of 81. Page Six first reported Friday that Sawyer ...

Ray Sawyer, co-founder of Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, is dead at age 81. Billboard reports Sawyer’s agent Mark Lyman announced Wednesday that the guitarist and vocalist died in his sleep Monday in ...