Recently Dead

Mike Smith, lead singer and keyboard player with The Dave Clark Five, died yesterday from pneumonia at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, outside London. He was 64. A spinal cord injury in 2003 had left him paralyzed from the waist down. Sad to say, Smith, who was considered, like the Beatles' Paul, to be the cute one of the group, had been getting ready to travel to New York next week, where the band is to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. The Dave Clark Five's hits include "Because," "Bits and Pieces," and "Glad All Over," which knocked the Beatles' “I Want to Hold Your Hand” off the top of the charts in 1963. (More)

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