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.
“Hendrix, Cream, Led Zep, Jefferson Airplane, Zappa, Janis Joplin, Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly, Doors, Steppen Wolf, Santana, etc.”
How did that come and go so quickly and when will it happen again?
Lately, too many (much too many) threads are hijacked and used to denigrate a group.
Can’t you just (for once) show some respect and express condolences for the death of a person whose (long ago) music brings back cherished memories.
Mike Smith was saved and noone was a witness? Then how do we know it happened? You’re confusing a lot of people here!
From the end of “Little Big Man:”
Dustin Hoffman: Grandfather?
Chief Dan George: Am I still in this world?
Dustin Hoffman: Yes, Grandfather.
Chief Dan George: I was afraid of that.
“Jann Wenner...burn in hell.”
Well, if so, he should move over and make room for you.
DC5, Boston, Journey and Foreigner are the worst kind of white bread spawn of Pat Boone easy listening elevator music.
And that’s more than a feeling.
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You forgot Chicago in your Hall of Whitebread Shame!
And, what’s wrong with Pat Boone’s music.
I loved ‘Love Letters in the Sand’.
Oh! To be at that age again and listen to that song for the first time.
I am so sad to hear Mike Smith passed away. Peter Noone has been working diligently on helping Mike Smith in his troubles, including helping gather support for getting him an expensive specially equipped van. I hope that knowing he had all those friends and fans (like the Noonatics at peternoone.com) around the world gave Mike some sort of comfort.
1) Why don’t YOU read the persepective on this story posted by the ORIGINAL poster. It is his thread and I was responding to the initial thesis.
2) The concept of thread hijacking is nebulous. To a certain extent, ALL threads are hijacked.
3) “Can’t you just (for once) show some respect and express condolences for the death of a person whose (long ago) music brings back cherished memories.”
What the hell does this ridiculous statement mean “for once”. Are you alluding to other threads. BE SPECIFIC.
4) The “group” I am denigrating is limited to rap performers. No more or less. Save your perpetually offended posture for those who will crumble in its presence. No sale here.
You can say that again.
“How did that come and go so quickly and when will it happen again?”
It was such a different sound from early, mid 60’s stuff that kids flocked to it, kind of like the rise of Grunge in the early 90’s after a decade of hideous 80’s keyboard bands.
The excitement may be over forever. I remember countless times gathering at friend’s houses to listen to a new album release on the stereo. It was a social event. The internet has changed that. There’s new bands out there in just about every genre that exits that are easily accessible, have a great sound and will never be heard on a radio or CD player.
“Don’t forget Try Too Hard from 1966.”
Good call.
Cued up next in the rotation after the stellar:
“Can’t You See That She’s Mine”
I see that you can speak English.
Your first post suggested that you spoke a ‘Amos n Andy’ dialect. For someone who so dislikes ‘rap’ so much you seem pretty well versed and fluent. Are you a closet rapper? Could these wordings just be something you pulled out of your nether regions?
By the way...What is the English translation of the word ‘Dom’?
As one who’s just a little older, I can honestly say - I hope never.
My opinion, of course.
... And The Kinks, of course.
Take me back a long way, sports fans and campers... 
I was a big DC5 fan in the 60s complete with shaggy hair that the gals in really short skirts I knew liked to run their fingers through!
Gadzooks, it is a wonder... 
I don't have four or five dozen illegitimate kids from the stories I recall.
If so... 
where the heck are they and why aren't they here taking care of old Pappy?
I honestly can’t figure out why anyone would think the Dave Clark 5 belong in the Hall of Fame - they were kind of a second tier, and didn’t really add anything or create anything new.
However,
It apears to be true that Wenner over-rode their vote last year and kept them out, that’s wrong, whether I think they belong there or not. And knowing Mike’s circumstances, it was incredibly cruel.
“You can say that again.”
Maybe later.....
Abysmally ignorant, race-baiting, feeble-minded punks in attendance at present...
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