Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Pepper! The hippest of the hip! I mean I have a room for life at the home of the chronically groovy!". His name and pink color are both homages to classic rock acts – he is a Pink Floyd, named after "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the album by The Beatles. He appears backstage more often than the other band members. Although Dr. Teeth is the leader, Floyd is the one who sings lead most often. Some of the songs he sang on "The Muppet Show" include: "New York State of Mind", "Ain't Misbehavin'", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show of the founders of "Rolling Stone", proclaiming "I’ve just given you guys the best commercial for this rag that you’ll ever get." Wenner then sent Cameron Crowe (who later wrote and directed "Jerry McGuire"), then 16 years old, to interview the band for issue 131 (March 1973). Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show appeared on the cover, albeit in caricature rather than photograph. In the United Kingdom, the BBC Radio network refused to play "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'", because it considered doing so would be advertising a trademark name, which was against the BBC's policy (previously, the Kinks had