Mike Smith is on the right.Mike Smith of Sixties group The Dave Clark Five has died aged 64, it has been announced. He died yesterday from pneumonia at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Smith, the band's lead singer and keyboardist, was admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit on Wednesday with a chest infection.
The Dave Clark Five were second only to the Beatles in the "Great British Invasion" of the US. The band sold over 100 million records and enjoyed 30 hit singles worldwide.
They topped the chart with Glad All Over in 1963 and recorded a total of 23 albums, many of them for the US market.
Strangely, Mike Smith use to go to school with my mother in Edmonton, North London and she recalls that he use to play 'boogie woogie' piano at school.
If you received this message from any other source (MySpace, Blogger, etc) it’s because I decided to mark his passing by posting the news, as it seems to have been missed by the TV & Radio news. I apologise if you have been spammed with this news.
