David Clark (born 15 December 1939)<!-- Do not change this date without first discussing it on the talk page --> is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and entrepreneur. Clark was the leader, drummer, and manager of the 1960s beat group the Dave Clark Five, the first British Invasion band to follow the Beatles to the United States in 1964. In 2008, Clark and his band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Andrew Loog Oldham, former manager of the Rolling Stones, said of the band's early success as rivals to the Beatles: "If the Beatles ever looked over their shoulders, it was not the Stones they saw. They saw the Dave Clark 5 or Herman's Hermits."

The band broke up in 1970, and Clark stopped drumming in 1972 after he broke four knuckles in a tobogganing accident.

Clark is an entrepreneur and a multi-millionaire. He owns a £12 million house in West London. In the late 1960s, in addition to managing his band, Clark began directing and producing for television. In 1968 he made a television production, Hold On, It's the Dave Clark Five.thumb|Clark (middle) with the Dave Clark Five on [[The Dean Martin Show in September 1965]]

On the release of a Dave Clark Five British hits album in the mid-1970s, Clark resided in the US for a year, thus avoiding paying UK taxes in Britain on the proceeds of that release. The British government challenged this but lost the case in court.

In 1993, Clark released remastered versions of all the Dave Clark Five singles on a CD, Glad All Over Again.

Honours and legacy

In 2008, marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the band, the Dave Clark Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Discography

Dave Clark Five

(See DC5 discography at The Dave Clark Five discography)

Solo

  • Time (1986)

References

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