Dr. Luke: The Billboard Cover Story

The doctor is in, at the tree-shrouded Conway Studios compound in Hollywood, and he won’t be out any time soon.

Lukasz Gottwald — the writer/producer better-known to the explosive-chorus-loving world as Dr. Luke — has booked all three rooms at Conway for the entire month of September. He’s told his manager to cancel all meetings, and you might have to excuse him if your call goes to voice mail. The deadline task at hand: Coming up with enough new songs for his prot