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London: Singer Mike Smith, who provided vocals and keyboards for the Dave Clark Five, one of the most successful British bands of the 1960s, died from pneumonia on Thursday, his agent said. He was 64.
Smith died at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, outside London, less than two weeks before he and his band mates were due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, Margo Lewis said.
She said his illness was the result of complications from a spinal injury sustained when he fell from a fence at his home in Spain in 2003.
"These last five years were extremely difficult for Mike.
I am incredibly saddened to lose him, his energy and his humour," Lewis said.
The Dave Clark Five was one of many British rock acts whose music swept across the United States in the 1960s during the so-called "British Invasion".
The Beatles were the best remembered, but between 1964 and 1966 one British hit followed another across the Atlantic, and bands such as The Rolling Stones and The Animals conquered America's charts.
Melodic and loud, the Dave Clark Five claimed a string of US billboard hits, including Because, Glad All Over, and I Like it Like That.
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