Doctor & the Medics

Doctor & the Medics are remembered as much for their look -- chalk-faced vocalist Clive Jackson (otherwise known as the Doctor) looked like a cross between the Joker and Gene Simmons of KISS -- as their new wave remake of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," a number one single in the U.K. But Doctor & the Medics had already existed years before they released that novelty cover. Jackson was born at Knotty Ash Hospital in Liverpool, England, on July 7, 1961. He formed Doctor & the Medics in the early '80s with Steve Maguire (guitar), Richard Searle (bass), backup singers Wen...