In the 1960s, the British band The Dave Clark Five achieved a record-breaking 15 ... Clark studied at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio ...

Coming from London, it could have been anywhere.” Sullivan agreed. The band was booked. “And it was amazing,” Clark says. The Dave Clark Five (featuring ... a Wild Weekend” in the United ...

8. The Dave Clark Five’s “Tottenham Sound” references their London district (the Beatles were called the Mersey Sound for their Liverpool roots). Tottenham is eight miles north of Charing ...

By Reuters, The Associated Press LONDON – Denis Payton, from rock group The Dave Clark Five which toured the United States in the 1960s and spearheaded the “great British invasion” alongside ...

Mike Smith, the lead singer, keyboardist and face of the Dave ... London at 13. He was also a fan of the great jazz artists Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson. When he joined the Dave Clark Five ...

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 ...

Like the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five even starred in their own movie — Catch Us If You Can (known stateside as Having a Wild Weekend). The group had a huge following in the United States thanks ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In the early years of 1960 ...

Not too many bands are named after their drummers, but in the case of the Dave Clark Five, it fit. Clark, a former movie stuntman, started the DC5 as a London skiffle group in the late ’50s.

Denis Payton, 63, the saxophone player in the British pop band the Dave Clark Five, died Sunday of cancer ... Payton, who was born in Walthamstow, East London, England, appeared on all the group ...