Dave Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith dead at 64 (Reuters)
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mike Smith, the lead singer of British band the Dave Clark Five, died on Thursday of pneumonia at an English hospital, his U.S. agent said.| ADVERTISEMENT |
Smith, 64, was admitted to a hospital outside London on Wednesday morning with a chest infection resulting from complications of a 2003 spinal cord injury that had left him paralyzed from the waist down, his New York agent, Margo Lewis, said in a statement.
His death came just two weeks before the Dave Clark Five — one of the leading bands of the 1960s British invasion — was due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Dave Clark Five, whose hits included "Glad All Over" and "Bits and Pieces," were one of the first British bands to find major success in the United States after the Beatles.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Steve Gorman)
