Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show was a band that played from 1968 to 1985. The name was inspired by the eyepatch worn by co-founder Ray Sawyer, who had lost his eye in a car crash, and a reference to the pirate Captain Hook in the fairy tale Peter Pan.
Above, the band posed naked for the cover of the gay magazine Zipper in 1973.
Although not known for nude performances, they did do a few. Here are Sawyer and the other band members onstage for a Danish TV show before a live audience in 1973.
This is a higher-resolution photo of that Danish TV appearance.
Here's Sawyer apparently playing air guitar at another performance, date and location unknown. This is not from the same event as above, because the decorations on his hat are different.
We end with some excerpts from a performance at the Roskilde festival in Denmark in 1976, where all the band members stripped naked, perhaps inspired by Roskilde's famous naked race event. "It's too goddamn hot in Denmark, man," says a band member into the microphone. "If you can do it, we can do it. Shit."
3 comments:
What a hoot. We sure can't get away with that here in the US - probably even less so with the craziness on the extreme right moaning about everything.
Gee, I had no idea that nudity on stage was such a thing.
It's the leftists who are hysterical about sex. You practically have to sign paperwork for them
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