Dennis Locorriere

... a solo show that would put many performers half his age to shame ... superstar..Locorriere demonstrated the true meaning of the word ... instantly recognisable, spine-tingling, sexy vocals wowed the audience ... a truly magnificent singing voice ... rising from the tenderest emotionial whisper to a powerful roar, his voice is one of the most distinctive sounds in popular music ... Dennis Locorriere, fully lived up to his world-wide reputation a one of the most enduring musical legends of our time.... he enthralled a capacity audience... oozed star quality and charisma... held his appreciative audience spell-bound... truly memorable night... ranking alongside the appearances by other legends such as Johnny Cash... I was totally swept away by the power and emotion in his voice... It was one of the greatest one-man shows I have ever seen... Not many singers could sing like that for two hours on their own with just a guitar...Absolutely brilliant top performance!!!!... such a generous performer with bags of charisma and a terrific sense of humour ... pure brilliance ... Long may he tour ...


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2nd May 2011	DL's brilliant new concert DVD, Post Cool - Live! released on POST COOL media. More ...>
11th April 2011	The launch of DL's brand new POST COOL label!!! The first releasebeing the CD boxed set, Retrospection, on POST COOL records Retrospection: Incorporating Dennis' first two Solo CD releases: Out of the Dark & One of the Lucky Ones with Bonus Studio & Live Tracks [Natalie, Dancing Inside, Doesn't Take A Lot to Make Her Cry, The Truth (live), Underneath The Moon (live), Shine Soon 2008] More ..>
23rd Feb 2011	Alone Again 2011 Tour kicks off in Horsham
15th Feb 2011	Whatever's Burning Now - A Collection of Poems & Cartoons released by Indigo Books & the accompanying website www.whateversburingnow.com goes live.
26th Jan 2011	"What's Coming Up" DL lets us know what to look forward to in 2011 in his Blog Post Cool Live DVD+CD, Retrospection CD and Whatever's Burning Now - A Collection of Poems & Cartoons
25th Nov 2010	DL.com announces the 'Alone Again' 2011 Tour More >>	Click for downloadable tour poster
12th Oct 2010	Early in 2010 Indigo Dreams contacts DL to say they'd read some of the poems on 'DL's Space' and asked if he'd think about putting together a collection of them. Over 70 pieces were sent along with a selection of DL's cartoons & drawings. The book will be titled Whatever's Burning Now will be available in shops and at the merchandise table in 2011. Read DL's blog on this >>
22th July 2010	DL goes into the studio and records an acoustic version of John Lennon's I Dig A Pony for the October 2010 issue of Mojo magazine's re-imagining of The Beatles classic Let It Be album. Read DL's 'I Dug a Pony' Blog >>
18th Apr 2010	After a very sucessful Spring Tour with his new band DL names his band 'Tomorrow Road' in time for the Fall Tour. *Read DL's 'Tomorrow Road' Blog >>*	Click for Larger Image
15th Mar 2010	POST COOL DL's 3rd Album to be released on 15.03.10 on Proper Records. DL's Post Cool Recording Blog.
Feb - Oct 2010	DL tours with his new band , promoting his new album, POST COOL. Your Tour 2010 Reviews - DL's Tour 2010 Blog Feb - April \| Aug-Oct	Pete Brown - guitars, mandolin, vocals Mike Nichols - double bass, electric bass, vocals Paul Beavis - drums and percussion Rich Milner - keyboards, vocals Amy Smith - keyboards, vocals
Feb 2010	DL.com is 10 YEARS OLD!!!!!
Oct 2009	DL's Face to Face with Rick Wakeman interview aired on Sky TV.
Sept 2009	DL makes a Special Guest Appearance at the Sunflower Jam, Porchester Halls, London. From JeremyIrons.net: From then on in it was a rock and roll dance party like no other, with Dennis Locorriere taking to the stage to play harmonica on The Stones’ Not Fade Away with Margo and proving that he still has one of the best voices in rock with awesome renditions of The Beatles Get Back, his own Sylvia’s Mother and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s, Love The One You’re With.
Aug - Dec 2009	DL undertakes a 30+ Date Solo Tour - Reviews.
July 2009	DL Performed Eleanor Rigby with The Liverpool Philharmonic & Lady Madonna with the band at the Beatles Day Concert, Liverpool.
Sep 2008	"The Lost Tapes" are found and DL releases a CD of solo acoustic songs recorded in early 2004.
Sep 2008	DL makes a Special Guest Appearance for Joe Brown's 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert at the Albert Hall, London.
June - Dec 2008	DL undertakes a 'The TrueVoice' Solo Tour - Reviews.
Jan - Mar 2008	When chatting with Bill Wyman during the Dear Mr Fantasy concert rehersals back in 2007, DL happened to mention that he'd "love to join them for a couple of shows..." A few months later DL got the invite ... not for a couple tho ... the whole tour! Here are some great photos of DL as a 'Rhythm King'! Read the Fan & Press Reviews.
2008	DL provided background vocals on Bobby Bare's album Bare/Sleeper Wherever I Fall.
Oct-Dec 2007	DL undertakes the 'Alone Again with DL' UK Solo Tour - Reviews.
Jul 2007	Dennis Locorriere The Unique Voice of Dr. Hook Hits & History Tour DVD is released - reaching the Top 5 In the UK DVD Chart!
Mar 2007	DL and his band undertake the 'sell out' 35 date Hits & History Tour - Reviews. They also performed on GMTV.
Feb 2007	EMI Releases "Hits and History: +DVD - This CD goes Gold! (Capitol/EMI) ** DENNIS Locorriere is right on song when it comes to value. Founder member and The Voice of Dr Hook, Locorriere offers a 23-track CD plus a further 14 in DVD format, as he traces the band's development from the late Sixties until they went their separate ways after the heady days of Sylvia's Mother, Cover Of The Rolling Stone et al, to the hard-up times which spawned the wickedly ironic album, Millionaire. From the heart-wrenching (The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan) to the heart-warming (Years From Now) with bags of humour and masses of conviction, Dr Hook's songs are graced by the gloriously sexy, husky-tremulous voice of Locorriere, the working-class lad from New York. Here he pays tribute to the musicians who made Dr Hook such a musically distinctive band. Most of the best songs are featured including When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman, Sexy Eyes, A Little Bit More, More Like The Movies and my gut-wrenching favourite, Carrie Me, Carrie. Is he just cashing in on old success? No, he is paying his dues to a motley crew of fine musicians and even finer songs. What the hell? Get Hooked! Tony McKinstry**
Jan 2007	DL takes part in " Dear Mr. Fantasy" a tribute to Jim Capaldi, charity concert at The Roundhouse in London
2007	DL provides vocal harmony on Marty Stuart's Compadres: An Anthology of Duets.
Sep - Dec 2006	DL undertakes a 30+ date tour to promote "One of the Lucky Ones" - Reviews.
Oct 2006	DL takes part in The Bewdley Festival.
Jul 2006	DL performs at the First Annual Accoustic Festival in Nantwich.
Jun 2006	DL performs a charity concert in aid of the Meningitis Research Foundation in Brighton.
2006	DL provides Choir, Chorus vocals on Various Artists album Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective [Box Set].
Nov 2005	DL narrates poetry on "Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook " by Shel Silverstein.
Jun 2005	DL undertakes a 45 date tour to coincide with the release of his solo cd "One of the Lucky Ones" - Reviews.
May 2005	DL plays at Londons prestigious Bloomsbury Theatre
Mar 2005	"One of the Lucky Ones" DL's' long awaited 2nd solo album released on Track Records.
Jan 2005	DL plays a benefit concert in aid of The Prince of Wales Hospice
2005	DL provides harmony vocals on John Hiatt's album Chronicles. DL performs Yesterday Blues (Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals ) on the album More Good Whiskey Blues Various Artists. DL provides vocals and harmony on Out on My Own Edwina Hayes.
June 2004	DL appears on the Pyramid Stage at The Glastonbury Festival
June 2004	DL performs at the Bloomsbury, London with Randy Bachman & Graham Goldman in aid of The Teenage Cancer Trust
Apr 2004	DL's' First London Solo Show at The Stand Theatre, London
Feb - Apr 2004	DL undertakes the 40+ date 'Up Close & Personal' tour of the UK - Reviews.
Feb 2004	"Live in Liverpool" double CD & DVD Interview released.
Dec 2003	"Alone with Dennis Locorriere" concert released on DVD.
Oct - Dec 2003	Due to overwhelming demand DL undertakes another solo accoustic UK tour - Reviews.
Jul 2003	DL performs on the Uncut Magazine Stage at the Guilfest Festival.
Apr 2003	DL performs a charity concert in aid of The Prince of Wales Hospice.
Jan - Mar 2003	DL undertakes a UK Solo Tour including the Eastleigh Music Festival.
2003	DL provides harmony vocals on Robert Earl Keen, Jr.'s album Party Never Ends: Songs You Know ... DL provides harmony vocals on Michael Snow's Never Say No to a Jar.
Sep - Dec 2002	DL undertakes a UK Solo Tour - Reviews.
Aug 2002	Special Numbered Limited Edition Live CD produced exclusively for the 2002 Tour 'Alone with DL'.
2002	DL provided background vocals on Chris LeDoux's album Capitol Collection: 1990-2000. DL provided vocal harmony on Various Artists's album From Hell to Breakfast: A Taste of Sugar Hill's Texas Singer Song Writers. DL provided background vocals on Travis Tritt's album Rockin' Side. DL provided background vocals on Randy Travis' album Trail of Memories: the Randy Travis Anthology.
2001	DL provided background vocals on Henry Gross's album I'm Hearing Things. DL provided Guitar, Vocals, Liner Notes on Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show's album On the Run. DL provided background vocals on Billy Bob Thornton's album Private Radio.
DEC 2000	DL met one of HIS musical idols, George Harrison. OK Magazine: "A host of legendary names from the music world congregated for the wedding of singer and musician Joe Brown... ...Among the legendary rockers attending were Mary Wilde, lead singer of Dr Hook, Dennis Locorriere.... ...many eyes where on former Beatle George Harrison, who made a rare public appearance as Joe's best man...."
Nov 2000	DL travels Down Under - For a tour of Australia - Read the Reviews.
Apr - Jul 2000	DL undertakes the "Out of the Dark" UK tour including The Shepherd's Bush Empire & 5 nights at Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham.
Feb 2000	DL.com launched and eventually takes over from Sam & Claire's fansite ...
	DL appears live on Top of The Pops 2 - performing "Sylvia's Mother". DL performs a 45 minute Live BBC Radio 2 Show.
	Track Records release DL's first solo album "Out of the Dark".
2000	DL appears on Bobby Bare's album Columbia Years: Bare's Picks. DL provided background vocals on Ray Flacke's album Untitled Island.
July 1999	DL is launched onto the worldwide web! ... Do you remember www.dennis-locorriere.freeserve.co.uk??? "..after seeing DL in 1999 were desperate to see more....the only way of finding out when and where was to ring the tour promoters, but to do this you had to know who they were... so we decided that DL needed a website... after many, many hours we came up with something that we were all satisfied with and sat back and waited to see how many visitors we would have .... we were amazed that within a few hours we had had 50 hits ... we had been proved right people were out there wondering just what had happened to DL!" S&C
Feb 1999	EMI releases Dr. Hook "Love Songs " - This CD includes linear notes and 3 solo DL tracks. DL tours the UK to promote the CD. The first leg of this immensely successful tour consisted of 55 venues in the UK. And coincided with the release of the Love Songs Album, for which Dennis has just received a gold disc for reaching sales of 100,000. This album included 3 new 'DL' songs, which he performed live to a rapturous response. - Press Reviews Sam & Claire catch up with DL after nearly 15 years! ...
1999	DL provided harmony & background vocals on Julian Dawson's album Spark. DL provided background vocals on Gloria Loring's album Turn the Page.
1998	DL provided background vocals on John Hiatt's album Best of John Hiatt.
1997	DL provided background vocals on Bob Woodruff's album Desire Road.
1996	DL provided background vocals on Clive Gregson's album I Love This Town. DL provided Liner Notes, Compilation Producer, Animation, Track Notes on Pleasure & Pain: The History of Dr. Hook. DL provided background vocals on Chris LeDoux's album Stampede.
1995	DL appears on Bob Gibson's final album - "Making A Mess of Commercial Sucess: The Songs of Shel Siverstein". DL provided background vocals on Travis Tritt's album Greatest Hits: From the Beginning.
Nov 1994	DL undertakes his 3rd UK Solo Tour.
1994	DL provided background vocals on Robert Earl Keen, Jr.'s album Gringo Honeymoon. DL provided background vocals on Chris Ledoux's album Haywire. DL provided vocal harmony on Bill Lloyd's album Set to Pop. DL provided background vocals on Travis Tritt's album Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof.
1993	DL provided background vocals on John Hiatt's album Perfectly Good Guitar
May 1992	EMI Release "Completely Hooked" DL undertakes a tour of the UK to promote the CD.. It went PLATINUM!
May 1992
1992	DL provided background vocals on Randy Travis' albums Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 & Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. DL provided background vocals on Travis Tritt's album T-r-o-u-b-l-e
May - Jun 1991	DL's' first UK Solo Tour playing 18 venues & 2 BBC Radio 2 Studio Sessions.
1991	DL provided vocal harmony on Kenny Rodger's album Back Home Again DL provided background vocals on Travis Tritt's It's All About to Change
1990	DL provided background vocals on Travis Tritt's album Country Club
1989	Shel Silversteins's 'The Devil and Billy Markham' at the prestigious Lincoln Centre in New York. DL played an exclusive 8 week run to sold out houses, receiving rave reviews for his one man performance. REVIEWS
1988	DL provided vocal harmony on Randy Travis' album Old 8x10. DL provided background vocals on John Hiatt's Slow Turning album.
May - Jun 1985	19.05.85 - 18.06.85: Dr. Hook's "One & Only Farewell Tour" If the members of Dr. Hook felt low at the prospect of their last concert then Leicester provided just the tonic they needed last night. Young and old alike stamped and clapped their approval at the De Montford Hall as lead singer Dennis Locorriere and his crew thumped out the unique brand of rock which has enabled them to stand the test of time. After 16 years in the business and a string of hits, the band has decided to call it a day... ...Dr. Hook is no more, but Locorriere will be back... a talent like his can't lie dormant for long. Jim Mcpheator
1972 - 1985	Dr. Hook experience the highs & lows of a 15 year recording contract and extensive international touring! Recipients of more than 60 gold and platinum albums, gaining No 1 chart status in more than 42 different countries. YES, they were on the cover of the "Rolling Stone", YES, they did go bankrupt in 1975, NO, they didn't record "If I said you had a beautiful body" or "Living next door to Alice!"
	Click Here for a colorful 'scrapbook' of some of DL's' fondest memories of his days with Dr. Hook... DL answers your questions and talks intimately about his time with the band in his 'My Dr. Hook Days' blog ...
	1980: Sam & Claire meet DL for the first time ... this meeting leaves a lasting impression... there will be more!! 1980: DL provided the linear notes for Any Trouble's album Where Are All the Nice Girls?
1970	Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show perform music and appear in "Who is Harry Kellerman..." with Dustin Hoffman. The beginning of the relationship bewteen DL, Dr. Hook and Shel Silverstein... the rest they say is history...
1969	DL joins an un-named bar band in New Jersey... later named Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show and finally Dr. Hook.
Jun 13th 1949	DL born on 13th June 1949 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Special thanks to AM at SylviasMother.com for helping us to build this timeline!! - More Info on DL's recording history.