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“LIFE AIN’T EASY” – By Des Kelly   They called him Dr.Hook, and his “Medicine Show”, after Ray Sawyer lost one eye in an automobile accident in 1967. Here was another young American Singer who was immensely popular during the 1970’s. Ray, “eye-patch” Sawyer was born on the 1st of February, 1937, joined the Alabama Group “The Medicine Show”, in 1969, two years after the accident that cost him his right eye, as a founder member of the Group, whose lead singer was Dennis Locorriere, but it was the “pirate-patch” that he wore permanantly, that not only made him stand out, but caused the Medicine Show to be renamed “Dr.Hook & the Medicine Show. Ray Sawyer, however, was also an entertainer that “sang a pretty good song” & the group were absolutely thrilled when they DID finally get their picture on the cover of a “Rolling-Stone” magazine, actually recording a ...