Posted on 02/28/2008 5:25:47 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Dave Clark Five Singer Dies of Pneumonia By JILL SERJEANT, Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 29) - Mike Smith, the lead singer of the 1960s British band the Dave Clark Five, died on Thursday of pneumonia at an English hospital, his U.S. agent said.
Mike Smith, Feb. 28: The singer and keyboardist, right, helped lead the British Invasion with the Dave Clark Five -- scoring hits with 'Glad All Over' and 'Because.' Smith died of pneumonia just days away from being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. He was 64. Pictured with him in 1965 are Dennis Payton and Dave Clark, seated. Smith, 64, was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday morning with a chest infection resulting from complications of a 2003 spinal cord injury that had left him paralyzed from the waist down, his New York agent, Margo Lewis, said in a statement.
His death at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, north of London, came just two weeks before the Dave Clark Five -- one of the leading bands of the 1960s "British invasion" -- was due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York.
The Dave Clark Five, whose hits included "Glad All Over," "Bits and Pieces" and "Because," were one of the first British bands to find major success in the United States after the Beatles.
According to a biography of the band on the Web site allmusic.com, it was the Dave Clark Five who knocked the Fab Four's hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the British charts with "Glad All Over."
Four Out of Five
'She's All Mine'
'Because'
'Everybody Knows'
News Reel: 'Glad All Over' And they made more appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" than any other English act of their era.
Despite a string of more than 10 other hits, the group disbanded in 1970. It had sold more than 50 million albums by the end of 2007.
The Dave Clark Five was due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a March 10 ceremony in New York that Smith had hoped to attend despite his September 2003 injury.
Smith, who was both lead singer and keyboard player with the quintet, had spent the years since his injury hospitalized until December 2007, when he moved into a specially prepared home with his wife, Arlene, the statement said.
"These last five years were extremely difficult for Mike, Lewis said.
"He was extremely excited and honored to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I am glad that he will be remembered as a Hall of Famer, because he was in so many ways," she added.
Kiss? They can kiss my arse. Great business model with the makeup - but lousy no-talent garage band act.
So the headline on this article is untrue? Do you have a link to any additional info?
Beats all hell out of:
I got my b!tches and my Ho’s and my Dom, in the Pres’dent’s Suite”
racist bigot!
That’s my generation - I was 13 in ‘64. My wife loved him - her first rock ‘n roll crush.
She’s feelin’....sad all over.
“racist bigot!”
When it comes to the musical nadir that is (C)Rap....
Guilty as charged.
Was it maybe Dell Shannon? I remember a musician from back then named Dell who became a DJ.
“racist bigot!”
When it comes to the musical nadir that is (C)Rap....
Guilty as charged.
Saved as in Born Again. Heard Peter Noone (Herman of The Hermits) witnessed to him.
Ok going over to youtube now for some Rush “Spirit of Radio†etc.
‘I got my b!tches and my Ho’s and my Dom, in the Pres’dent’s Suite’
You besmirch the death of a talented artist with such a small minded, stupid and ‘ignant’ post.
Hey,I agree with him.I feel the same way with rap.That don't make us bigots.Blacks have contribiuted a lot to real music.There are more talented black musicians than I could ever count with my fingers or toes.Rappers are a no talent dime a dozen losers that need to get lost and only come back when they show some real talent like actually sing or play a musical instrument.
My God, we’re dropping like flies. Who’ll be next, I won
Buddy Miles (Hendrix/Band of Gypsys) and Larry Norman (People) both passed away in last couple days.
Are you seriously calling people racist bigots because they despise rap?
Surely not.
“You besmirch the death of a talented artist with such a small minded, stupid and ‘ignant’ post.”
I’ll let you defend Rap, then.
Go ahead genius.
No more! Don’t tell me any more!
LOL, you OK?
Except for the live albums I'd agree with you.
Wenner created this thing, it’s his baby,he can put Annette and Frankie there is he wants to, what difference does it make? Geez! There is a Broccoli and Asparagus Hall of Fame somewhere in this crazy country, do we care what veggies go in them? Ignore, boycott, mock, it’s not the Vatican selecting Saints, it is utterly meaningless.
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