The Dave Clark Five
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Year:
2008
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Inducted by:
Tom Hanks
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Category:
Performers
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Dave Clark -
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Denny Payton -
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Lenny Davidson -
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Mike Smith -
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Rick Huxley
Introduction
The record-setting stars that gave the Beatles a run for their money.
For a period in the mid-Sixties, the Dave Clark Five was the dominant British Invasion band. With fifteen consecutive Top 40 singles, they could always be counted on for poppy, danceable hits.
Tom Hanks Inducts the Dave Clark Five
Tom Hanks Inducts the Dave Clark Five at the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Tom Hanks Inducts the Dave Clark Five00:12:27 -
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The Dave Clark Five Acceptance Speeches00:11:08 -
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"Glad All Over"00:03:06
Hall of Fame Essay
2008
Although it might be difficult to grasp if you weren’t a popular-music fan at the time, in 1964, at the height of the British Invasion, it was not at all clear which, the Dave Clark Five or the Beatles, would become the most popular and influential rock band of the era.
The DC5 represented the second volley of rock & roll mania to emerge from the British Isles with the group’s inaugural performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 8 ,1964 - generating the same riotous, screaming orgasmic frenzy that had greeted the Beatles’ debut performance on the same program a mere four weeks earlier.
