YEAR
2008
INDUCTED BY
Tom Hanks
CATEGORY
Performers
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.
Dave Clark
Denny Payton
Lenny Davidson
Mike Smith
Rick Huxley
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Rob Bowman
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.
