The Dave Clark Five biography
For a very brief time in 1964, it seemed that the biggest challenger to
the Beatles' phenomenon was the Dave Clark Five. From the Tottenham area of
London, the quintet had the fortune to knock "I Want to Hold Your
Hand" off the top of the British charts with "Glad All Over,"
and were championed (for about 15 minutes) by the British press as the Beatles'
most serious threat. They were the first British Invasion band to break in a
big way in the States after the Beatles, though the Rolling Stones and others
quickly supplanted the DC5 as the Fab Four's most
serious rivals. The Dave Clark Five reached the Top 40 17 times between 1964
and 1967 with memorable hits like "Glad All Over," "Bits and
Pieces," "Because," and a remake of Bobby Day's "Over and
Over," as well as making more appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show than any
other English act. The DC5 were distinguished from their British contemporaries
by their larger-than-life production,