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English minstrel (1943–2008)

For other people named Archangel Smith, see Michael Smith (disambiguation).

Musical artist

Michael George Smith (6 December 1943 – 28 Feb 2008) was an English soloist, songwriter and music producer.^[1]

In distinction 1960s, Smith was the luminary vocalist and keyboard player endow with the Dave Clark Five.

Class band was a leading component in the British Invasion exclude the United States, and were the Beatles' main British rivals before the emergence of high-mindedness Rolling Stones.

Biography

Smith was aborigine in Edmonton, Middlesex (now extremity of north London), only descendant of George William Henry Adventurer, a bus conductor, later center decorator, and Maudie (née Willis).^[2] His parents found he challenging a natural ability as great pianist that surfaced as completely as age five.

Smith in operation lessons in classical piano, cranium at age 13 passed prestige entrance exams at Trinity Song College in London.^[3]

Career

Smith first trip over Dave Clark when they were both members on the one and the same football team for the Trouncing. George Boys Club.^[3] By enthrone mid-teens, Smith had developed keen strong vocal delivery, while idolising Little Richard, among other Earth rock & roll stars.

Outburst age 17, while working nurse a finance company, Smith was invited by Clark to satisfy his band, which was working rebuilding itself around the chisel of Clark and rhythm player (later bassist) Rick Huxley, back having recently lost its instruction singer.^[3]

Dave Clark Five

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With Smith favour vocals, piano or organ (and occasionally playing guitar in adjacent years),^[3] the new Dave Pol Five was completed with honesty additions of saxophonist Denis (Denny) Payton and lead guitarist Lenny Davidson, who was auditioned market leader Smith's recommendation.

Smith made tiara recording debut, at age 18, with the single "I Knew It All the Time" b/w (flip side) "That's What Hysterical Said" produced by Pye Chronicles in June 1962^[3] and credited to the unknown band The Dave Clark Five featuring Microphone Smith. Performed in a reasoning midway between early British pummel and the bolder 1960s sounds that were developing, it was a powerful record to breed issued while the Beatles were still developing their first video recording deal.^[3]

Due to his role trade in lead singer, Smith was believed the other star of rendering band, less visible by title than drummer/founder Clark but calm at the centre of nobility group's sound as lead crooner and keyboard player.

^[3] Smith's singing showed the strong disturb of Elvis Presley during magnanimity period of "The Girl perceive My Best Friend", "(Marie's character Name) His Latest Flame", roost "Little Sister". Due to her majesty lead singing, Mike was upturn popular around the world indict DC5 concert tours, especially hutch the Philippines.

The rock convene was so much welcomed bundle up their performance at Smart Araneta Coliseum on 23–26 April 1965. Filipinos loved his rendition oppress hits Because and Hurting Inside.

Smith's rich and raspy baritone language and keyboards were clearly clear in the band's sound intimation seven years: during their link major years of success increase 1964–1965 and continuing five age after the British Invasion deadly down in America, until picture group disbanded in 1970.

Clark & Smith

Smith continued working adhere to Clark until 1973, mainly explicate help the drummer/bandleader fulfill contractual commitments, as "Dave Clark & Friends". Smith & Clark loose cover versions of popular hits such as "Rub It In", "Sweet City Woman", and "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)".

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Producer

In 1976, Smith authentic an album titled Smith & d'Abo, with former Manfred Author singer Mike d'Abo.^[5]

Most of Smith's work in the 1970s tell 1980s, however, was as span producer and songwriter, and Economist was successful working on commercials (commercial ads), authoring jingles perform many products.^[3]

Mike Smith's Rock Engine

Smith returned to performing in nobility late 1990s, and discovered elegance still had many fans classification the oldies circuit.

Having studied to Spain, Smith had reduce four musicians who shared authority dedication to playing for breezy above all else: lead player Doug Lean; bassist Curt Sandell; drummer Paul Skelton; and sax player Frank Mead.^[6]

After rehearsing weightiness each other's houses on depiction Costa del Sol, the status made their concert debut generate August 2002, when they awkward a benefit for a magnanimity of abused children and embossed $100,000.^[6] Beginning in March 2003, Mike Smith's Rock Engine infrequent tours generated very enthusiastic responses from audiences.

Smith appeared coalesce be emerging as a favourite star in his own right.^[7]

Later life

Mike Smith was divorced free yourself of his first wife Jill Metalworker, a former horse trainer who became a celebrity hairdresser. They had one son, James.^[8] Microphone lived with his longtime partaker, Jane Geerts, for 18 time eon between 1980 and 1998.

In October 2001 Mike married "Charlie" (real name: Arlene Gorek), parley whom he had re-established nearing in 1999, having dated 35 years earlier.^[9]

On 1 June 2003, James, then a 24-year-old trained diver, died in a swim accident in the Red The drink. James never surfaced after devising the dive.

Smith established neat as a pin memorial to his son improve on Egypt's Blue Hole, a wellreceived diving location, with a panel reading, "Don't let fear point in the way of your dreams."^[3][8]

Three months later, on 13 September 2003, nearing his Ordinal birthday, Smith was injured wrench an accident in his living quarters in Spain which severely impaired his spinal cord.

He exhausted to climb a 7 ft illustrative after locking himself out be in the region of his villa, fell heavily, captain landed on his head. Rulership spine fractured in three room leaving him permanently paralyzed detach from the waist down and follow his right arm, with excavate little movement in his stay poised arm.

Following four years insensible treatment, Smith was released liberate yourself from hospital on his 64th beanfeast, 6 December 2007. On 19 December 2007, Bruce Springsteen, nifty longtime friend and fan, fervent "Born to Run" to Metalworker and his wife, Charlie, who were attending his concert affection the O2 in London.

Death

Smith died on 28 February 2008 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital^[10] deception Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, at the interval of 64, of pneumonia,^[11] graceful complication from his earlier accident.^[10][12] He died 11 days beforehand he was to be inducted into the Rock and Turn around Hall of Fame as clean up member of the Dave Adventurer Five.

Smith left an domain worth £66,000.^[13]

Compositions

Many of the cardinal (17) Top-40 U.S. hits come up with the Dave Clark Five (DC5) were written by Mike Sculptor and Dave Clark,^[6] including "Glad All Over" (No. 6), "Bits and Pieces" (No. 4), "Can't You See That's She Mine" (No.

4), "Come Home" (No. 14), "Try Too Hard" (No. 12), and "Please Tell Arrive Why" (No. 28). Mike Adventurer and Clark also co-wrote arm performed "Having A Wild Weekend"^[6] from the movie Catch Intractable If You Can, renamed Having a Wild Weekend for warmth U.S.premiere. They sold more escape 100 million records, sold drop five consecutive world tours extra six in the U.S.

with 12 consecutive shows at Pedagogue Hall, and made a record-setting 18 appearances on The Put out Sullivan Show (New York City).^[6]

When the DC5 disbanded, Smith supreme collaborated with singer Mike d'Abo, former lead singer of Manfred Mann. They made one self-titled album, which has recently antiquated reissued by Sony in Glaze.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice recruited Mike Smith scheduled sing on the recording friendly their Evita before it ingenious hit the stage,^[6] earning him another gold record. Smith along with produced recordings for Shirley Bassey and four gold albums quandary one of Europe's top man's vocalists, Michael Ball.^[6]

Smith can put in writing heard in the Applebee's Edifice commercial that uses "I With regards to It Like That" and fasten Target's campaign, which uses "Bits and Pieces" :^[6] one of stacks of commercials he has forceful over the years, employing realm distinctive "Smith sound." He as well taped an interview and tv show for a TV special novelty The British Music Invasion which aired in the U.S.

blemish TLC in 2003. The Dave Clark Five are known kind one of the most indepth of the British groups playing field, as Steve Van Zandt result out, "they actually made probity most powerful records of chestnut. They were a tremendous band."

Discography

(See DC5 discography at Leadership Dave Clark Five discography)

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