Doctor Hook: This Is Your Life and Your Cover

Rock & roll history was made in Charlotte, North Carolina, –under cloud-swept skies as the sun moved into the last decan of Aquarius. On Sunday, February 18th, to be exact, seven formerly unknown musicians calling themselves Dr. Hook stumbled onto the stage of a cavernous dance hall called the Midnight Sun.

The rest is fodder for the Historians of this Troubled Age.

Dennis Loccorriere, the bearded 23-year-old lead singer——in his alter-ego role as Larry the Times Square wino——spoke at a record-breaking 27 motherfuckers per hour and was cheered roundly for this feat. People threw joints at him. He moved like an abuser of the drug alcohol, lurching around the stage, grabbing at the microphones, and slurring his often indelicate words.

Dennis and Ron helped Ray on the songs he was writing, tuneful tales like "Lily Pearl, Whatcha Gonna Name Your Baby," and "Life Ain't Easy," and a new ballad called "Nudie Suit" in which a spangled rock star, coincidentally named Ray, deflowers a 16-year-old admirer and drops her after three days. She appears at the next gig, tears in her eyes, a gun in her hand. As she pulls the trigger, "the crowd goes wild ..." History before it has been made: the first rock and roll assassination.

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