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, ...

Paul D’Amato, the actor who played the gloriously vicious Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken opposite Paul Newman in Slap Shot, died Monday after a long battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain ...

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 ...

He also won a Grammy for producing a children’s album from Shel Silverstein, a frequent collaborator. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Ron Haffkine, a Grammy-winning record producer and manager known for ...