摄影奖1966 Most Promising New Star (Male) (提名)
Dave Clark was born on December 15, 1942 in London, England.
Writer 鲍勃·拉菲尔森 pitched the idea of a weekly sitcom to him; when Clark rejected the idea, Rafelson refined it to become The Monkees (1966).
The Dave Clark Five--Clark, Mike Smith, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley and Denis West Payton--made some 18 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948).
Clark was a close friend of Queen lead singer 弗莱迪·默克里, whom he had known since 1975, and took over the bedside vigil of Mercury when he died in November 1991.
Clark, as sole owner to the exclusive rights of all the songs of The Dave Clark Five, declined to license any of the band's recordings, and consequently none of their music was available to be purchased in any commercial format from 1978-93 until, in 1993, a single CD, "Glad All Over Again", was produced by Clark himself and released by EMI in Britain. Thereafter, nothing was legally available once again until 2008, when the "Hits" compilation was released by Universal Music in the UK.
Before his pop fame, he was a keen amateur boxer until a broken nose changed his career course.
Profiled in the 1991 book "The Big Beat--Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers", edited by 马克斯·维恩博格.