”The Cover of Rolling Stone” offered a cheeky look at the “thrill” that a rock band gets when they land on the cover of the music magazine Rolling Stone. The lyrics weren’t written by Dr. Hook band mates Ray Sawyer, George Cummings, Billy Francise, Dennis Locorriere, Jay David, Jance Garfat or Rik Elswit. Instead, the witty lines, such as “wanna see my picture on the cover/ wanna buy five copies for my mother,” were penned by Shel Silverstein, the renowned artist, poet, and author of the children’s classics The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and more.
In an interview with Songfacts, Silverstein’s nephew Mitch Meyers said his uncle was inspired by musicians. "I think that he was already hanging with Dr. Hook when he did it,“ Meyers shared of “The Cover of Rolling Stone.” “He had been around musicians, and he understood what people wanted. And he understood how every musician's dream was to be a star. To be a big star. To be on the cover of a big magazine, and what magazine epitomized music? And Shel lampooned the whole rock and roll lifestyle.”
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Dr. Hook did appear on the cover of ‘Rolling Stone’—sort of
On the 50th anniversary of the cover, Rolling Stone recalled the accompanying feature article was “a delirious funny chronicle of the band’s travels, peppered with profanity-laced song parodies, tales of harmonizing on George Jones songs, encounters with eager young groupies on the concert trail, and the dumping of the mysterious contents of a Holiday Inn envelope just seconds before getting pulled over by a Virginia state trooper on the way to their next gig.”
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