Ray Sawyer, American singer with the 1970s rock band
The news was announced by the band’s official Facebook page, a short statement read: “Ray Sawyer, an original member of Dr Hook from 1969-1981, passed away this morning. We send our condolences to his family at this difficult time.”
Having received acclaim with the band in the 70s, from 1988 to October 2015, Sawyer continued to tour as the nostalgia circuit as ‘Dr. Hook featuring Ray Sawyer’ before retiring.
Sawyer, who acted as the band’s percussionist and backing singer to frontman Dennis Locorriere, became instantly recognisable due to his ever-present eyepatch after he lost his right eye in a 1967 car crash. At the time of the accident, he said: “I must have played all the clubs from Houston to Charleston until I decided I was going insane from too
He continued: “I saw a John Wayne movie and proceeded to Portland, Oregon, to be a logger complete with plaid shirt, caulk boots, and
“On the
RIP Ray.