<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Carry Me, Carrie" (1972) </Td> <Td> "The Cover of' Rolling Stone"' (1973) </Td> <Td> "Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie" (1973) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Carry Me, Carrie" (1972) </Td> <Td> "The Cover of' Rolling Stone"' (1973) </Td> <Td> "Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie" (1973) </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Cover of' Rolling Stone"' is a song written by Shel Silverstein and first recorded by American rock group Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show . Produced by Ron Haffkine and released in 1972, it was the band's third single and peaked at number six on the U.S. pop chart for two weeks on March 17--24, 1973 . </P> <P> The song satirizes success in the music business; the song's narrator laments that his band, despite having the superficial attributes of a successful rock star (including drug usage, "teenage groupies, who'll do anything we say" and a frenetic guitar solo) has been unable to "get their pictures / on the cover of the Rolling Stone". </P>

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