It wasn’t until 1967 that I let the fan club subscription lapse, and shrugged them off, a phase through which I’d had to pass. There’d be Rule Britannia and maybe a few others, and then Tommy would tear the bank note into shreds, and conclude with Bits And Pieces. Off the top of my head, bass player Rick Huxley is Mick Jagger’s cousin by marriage in 1961, Denis Payton replaced saxophonist Jim Spencer, who became a solicitor Lenny Davidson was once guitarist with The Impalas Dave had a dog named Spike (subject of a regular newsletter from an unofficial fan club of about 15,000 – mostly US – members), and Tommy Cooper asked a member of the audience to hand him a fiver in order that he could list how many song titles he could make from what he saw. To this day, I can reel off the most obscure biographical and discographical details about them. For a good half of my ignominious career at grammar school, I lived my life through The Dave Clark Five, affiliating myself to them as other lads might to a soccer team, rejoicing in their triumphs and lamenting their setbacks as if they were my own.

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