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Crimson presents Dr. Hook 'Gold', the only Dr. Hook compilation you'll ever need. Formed in New Jersey in 1968, Dr. Hook were an American rock band who found international success and became a household name throughout the 70's and 80's. Led by Dennis locorriere and Ray Sawyer, the group were known for signature songs such as 'the cover of Rolling Stone' And later disco-influenced soft rock tracks including 'sexy eyes' And 'better love next time' The group achieved an impressive 6 UK Top 10 singles including 'sylvia's mother', 'a little bit more' And the #1 hit 'when you're in love with a beautiful Woman'. This new compilation brings 44 of Dr. Hook's classic tracks together for the very first time, including songs from across their entire career.

Crimson presents Dr. Hook 'Gold', the only Dr. Hook compilation you'll ever need. Formed in New Jersey in 1968, Dr. Hook were an American rock band who found international success and became a household name throughout the 70's and 80's. Led by Dennis locorriere and Ray Sawyer, the group were known for signature songs such as 'the cover of Rolling Stone' And later disco-influenced soft rock tracks including 'sexy eyes' And 'better love next time' The group achieved an impressive 6 UK Top 10 singles including 'sylvia's mother', 'a little bit more' And the #1 hit 'when you're in love with a beautiful Woman'. This new compilation brings 44 of Dr. Hook's classic tracks together for the very first time, including songs from across their entire career.

Consolidating their position as satin-clad seductors, Dr. Hook gets sweet and saccharine on Pleasure & Pain, a record that opens with the one-night-stand anthem "Sharing the Night Together" and ends with the novelty boogie "You Make My Pants Want to Get Up and Dance." In between, Dr. Hook touch upon almost every other kind of quickie, celebrating infatuations, flirtations, and broken hearts, sometimes getting close enough to melancholy to register as a sadness but most of the time happy to sell heartbreak as seduction. And so, Pleasure & Pain is supremely slick, a record designed to play in the post-Saturday Night Fever discos of 1978 and destined to remain in its time, and yet the sheer cravenness of Dr. Hook retains an inexorable appeal…