Australian singles chart:
The Cover of the Rolling Stone entered the Kent chart on 15 January 1973 and peaked at #32.
Album:
The song is on Sloppy Seconds which entered the Kent album charts on 5 March 1973 and peaked at #43.
Songwriter:
Shel Silverstein
Producer:
Ron Haffkine
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
Songfacts:
The Cover of the Rolling Stone was written by Shel Silverstein, a best-selling author of children’s poems who was also a contributor to Playboy magazine and writer of many country hits, including A Boy Named Sue. Silverstein also wrote Dr. Hook’s first hit, Sylvia’s Mother.
This is a parody of the rock and roll lifestyle. It pokes fun at all the things that rock stars indulge in when they’re successful: groupies, shady characters hanging around, limo rides, etc.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/dr-hook-the-medicine-show/the-cover-of-rolling-stone
Lyrics:
Well, we’re big rock singers, we got golden fingers
And we’re loved everywhere we go (that sounds like us)
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show (right)
We take all kinda pills that give us all kinda thrills
But the thrill we′ve never known
Is the thrill that′ll getcha
When you get your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone
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