{"id":675621,"date":"2026-05-17T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675621\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:15:09","slug":"legendary-voice-of-dr-hook-passes-away-after-long-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675621\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Voice of Dr Hook Passes Away After Long Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dennis-locorriere.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Legendary Voice of Dr Hook Passes Away After Long Illness\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis Locorriere, lead singer of Dr. Hook, passed away on May 16th (@DrHookOfficial on X).<\/p>\n<p>The lead vocalist from the band Dr. Hook has died.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Locorriere, aged 76, passed away after a long battle with kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>Locorriere was best known for singing with the band Dr Hook and The Medicine Show throughout the 70\u2019s and creating tracks like Sylvia\u2019s Mother and When You\u2019re in Love With a Beautiful Woman.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually moved on to a solo career and over more than fifty years recorded at least 18 albums.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by his management company, it notes Locorriere passed away yesterday surrounded by his loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Dennis Locorriere, lead singer of Dr. Hook, passed away on May 16th (@DrHookOfficial on X). The lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-675621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}