Peter Hope Evans

Medicine Head
Origin	Stafford, England
Genres	Blues rock
Years active	1968–1977
Labels	Dandelion, Polydor, WWA

Past members	John Fiddler Peter Hope-Evans

Medicine Head were a British blues rock band – initially a duo – active in the 1970s. Their biggest single success was in 1973, with "One and One Is One", a Number 3 hit on the UK Singles Chart. The group recorded six original albums, the opening trio of which were on John Peel's Dandelion label.

For most of its career, the group was a duo comprising:

At various stages the band utilised the following musicians – Clive Edwards; Keith Relf; Tony Ashton; Roger Saunders; George Ford; John Davies; Rob Townsend and Morgan Fisher.

Fiddler and Hope-Evans met when they both attended Wednesfield Grammar School, Wolverhampton, and then Stafford Art School. After both dropped out of their courses, they began performing together on an informal basis and around 1968 started performing blues and rock'n'roll songs in pubs and clubs in and around Birmingham. They were seen at the Lafayette club by radio DJ John Peel, who in turn played a tape of their songs to John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend and, at Lennon's insistence, signed them to his Dandelion record label.