Dave Dee

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Dave Dee (1967, far right)

Dave Dee (birth name David John Harman ; born December 17, 1941 in Salisbury , England , † January 9, 2009 in London ) was a British singer , who was mainly with the pop group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich in the second Became known in the mid-1960s.

Life

Dave Dee gave up his job as a police officer in order to earn his living as a musician with his friends from 1961. As a police student, he happened to have to record the car accident in which the American rock 'n' roll musician Eddie Cochran was killed. The friends from Salisbury played as Dave Dee and the Bostons in England and occasionally in Hamburg ( Star Club , Top Ten Club ) and Cologne (Storyville). In 1964 they got a record deal and had a number of hits as Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich between 1964 and 1969, such as The Legend of Xanadu (1968).

Dave Dee (right), 1967

In 1969 Dave Dee left the group to work solo. He brought out a few singles. In the 1980s he founded his own music label Double D , but without finding great success. He worked again with his former friends and with the Scottish pop band Marmalade . In the 1990s there was a reunion of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich , who performed until September 2008. In the 2000s he was regularly accompanied on solo tours by the German rock 'n' roll cover band Larry and the Handjive . Dave Dee died on January 9, 2009 after suffering from prostate cancer for several years in Kingston upon Thames , Greater London .

Discography

Singles

  • Hold Tight (1966)
  • Hard to Love You (1966)
  • Hideaway (1966)
  • Save Me (1966)
  • Bend It (1966)
  • Okay (1967)
  • Touch Me, Touch Me (1967)
  • Zabadak (1967)
  • Last Night in Soho (1968)
  • Wreck of the Antoinette (1968)
  • The Legend of Xanadu (1968)
  • Snake in the Grass (1969)
  • Tonight, Today (1969)
  • Don juan (1969)
  • My Woman's Man / Gotta Make You Part of Me (1970)
  • Annabella / Kelly (1970)
  • Everything About Her / If I Believed in Tomorrow (1970)
  • Wedding Bells / Sweden (1971)
  • Hold On / Mary Morning Mary Evening (1971)
  • Swingy / Don't You Ever Change Your Mind (1971)
  • with The Marmalade: Scirocco / Don't Believe in Love Anymore (1989)

album

  • Unfinished Business (1995)

literature

  • Thorsten Schmidt: Beat Club - all programs • all stars • all songs. Kultur Buch, Bremen 2005 (published in cooperation with Radio Bremen on the 40th anniversary), ISBN 978-3-933851-09-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. BBC News : Pop singer Dave Dee dies aged 65 . January 9, 2009
  3. Sixties pop star Dave Dee dies after three-year battle with cancer.