Mike Smith, the lead singer and keyboard player of The Dave Clark Five, one of the premier bands to emerge during the 1960’s “British Invasion”, died today from pneumonia at Stoke Mandeville Hospital outside of London. His devoted wife, Arlene, who is known as Charlie, was by his side. Smith was 64 years old.??Smith (left) with The Dave Clark Five?? Smith, who was due to be inducted into the R...
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At least 4 good tracks, including 2 hard rockin' fuzz-drenched numbers non-comped as yet, can be found on the 1966Try Too Hard album by Dave Clark Five."Somebody Find A New Love" starts off with a decent drum roll proving (maybe) that they could actually play the drums.
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Mike Smith, the lead singer and keyboard player of The Dave Clark Five, one of the premier bands to emerge during the 1960’s “British Invasion”, died today from pneumonia at Stoke Mandeville Hospital outside of London. His devoted wife, Arlene, who is known as Charlie, was by his side. Smith was 64 years old.??Smith (left) with The Dave Clark Five?? Smith, who was due to be inducted into the R...
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Having just entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two weeks after the death of lead singer Mike Smith, this fabulous little tune by the DC5 came on the iPod this week and carried me back. I wondered ??why hasn't anyone posted any DC5 music on MOG??? Then it hit me. Other than a best of double-CD released 15 years ago, there has been NO Dave Clark Five product available since the death of vinyl...
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I'm guessing you missed this performance on the VH-1 Classics broadcast of this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies, because you probably dozed off during Madonna's acceptance speech (what, were they dubbing her Queen of Music or something?), or walked out of the room at the very idea of Billy Joel inducting John Mellencamp, two guys who might belong in the hall of something, but proba...
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For those fans of 60s music who remember (and/or still listen to) the music of the Dave Clark Five: For me, the appeal of this group was and alway be the gritty vocals of Mike Smith. Unfortunately, I found out while surfing the web last year that Mike Smith suffered a fall in his home and is now permanently paralyzed from the neck down. Mike only released one solo album after the breakup of the...
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The insanity surrounding the Beatles introduction to North America didn't overshadow the introduction of another band. This was one that I believed would outlive the Beatles because in my opinion they could outplay and outsing them with their hard driving (for the time) rock tunes, gravelly voice (Mike Smith) and their addition of sax into the rock band sound. As it turns out, The Dave Clark F...
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