By Alex Cooper, Happy Mag News | Dennis Locorriere, the spirited bassist and lead singer who helped found the legendary country-rock band Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, has passed away at 76.
The band announced that Locorriere died Saturday after a “long and courageous battle with kidney disease,” having retired from touring just months earlier.
Known for his warm, gritty voice, the New Jersey-born musician first soared in the early 70s by teaming up with children’s author Shel Silverstein, delivering timeless hits like the heart-wrenching ‘Sylvia’s Mother’ and the cheeky anthem ‘The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone.’’
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Read more here:
https://happymag.tv/dennis-locorriere-death/
Photo: Dennis Locorriere | From Golden Oldies Forever’s Facebook page (no credit listed) https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122409243566118431&set=a.122109521048118431
OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
From Care2 via Jock Bartley on Facebook: Trump shut down our LGBTQ+ suicide and mental health hotline, but CANADA opened a US toll-free number to theirs… so our citizens can get help anytime, at no cost: 1-877-330-6366
Kindness & empathy have no borders.
Posting for my Veteran/singer/songwriter/musician friend Troy Hoss: Heavy on my heart so here goes: This is a very real problem … 22 Veterans a day surrender to their demons. #SuicideAwareness | Call Veteran’s Hotline: 988 #1 or 844-647-1354
Warning Signs of Suicide – National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or if you want to discuss, call the old numbers at 800-273-TALK or 800-273-8255 for English and 888-628-9454 for Spanish. Learn the signs of someone who may be contemplating suicide.
If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com
May 2026
19: Gunter Hampel, 88, German jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer; Al Hurricane Jr., 66, American singer-songwriter; Hieromonk Roman, 71, Russian hieromonk, poet and singer.
18: Abomé l’Éléphant, 33, Ivorian singer and rapper, cardiac arrest; Marideth Sisco, 82, American author and musician.
17: Totó la Momposina, 85, Colombian singer; Ike Willis, 70, American vocalist and guitarist (Frank Zappa), prostate cancer.
16: Cris Derksen, 45, Canadian Cree cellist and composer, traffic collision; Dennis Locorriere, 76, American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook), kidney disease; Ryan Porter, 46, American jazz trombonist (West Coast Get Down), injuries sustained from traffic collision.
15: Bengt Berger, 83, Swedish jazz drummer, composer (Bitter Funeral Beer) and producer; Dame Felicity Lott, 79, English soprano, cancer.
14: Peter Archer, 64, Australian guitarist and songwriter (Crow); Pierre Cao, 88, Luxembourgish composer and conductor; Sophie Garel, 84, French media presenter (Les Grosses Têtes) and singer; Claudine Longet, 84, French-American singer and actress (McHale’s Navy, The Party); Abdelmadjid Meskoud, 73, Algerian chaabi singer, complications from a stroke.
13: Clarence Carter, 90, American singer-songwriter (“Slip Away”, “Patches”, “Strokin'”), complications from pneumonia, prostate cancer and sepsis; El Cabrero, 81, Spanish flamenco singer.
12: Romuald Figuier, 88, French singer.
