Die fünf Freunde David Harman (Dave Dee, Gesang), Trevor Davies (Dozy, Bass), John Dymond (Beaky, Gitarre), Michael Wilson (Mick, Schlagzeug) und Ian Amey (Tich, Gitarre) aus Salisbury traten seit 1961 als Band auf und gaben bald ihre bürgerlichen Berufe auf (Dee war z. B. Polizist), um als Musiker ihr Geld zu verdienen. Neben Auftritten in England hatten sie auch gelegentliche Verpflichtungen in Hamburg (Star Club, Top Ten Club) und in Köln (Storyville). Der ursprüngliche Name der Band war Dave Dee And The Bostons.Im Sommer 1964 wurden die Produzenten Ken Howard und Alan Blaikley auf sie aufmerksam, und sie erhielten endlich einen Plattenvertrag. Sie nannten sich jetzt Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. Zwischen 1965 und 1969 belegte die Gruppe mehr Wochen in den Charts als die Beatles. Zu ihren Hits zählen u. a. Hideaway, Zabadak und The Legend Of Xanadu.Obwohl die Band in Amerika nicht Fuß fassen konnte, waren sie im Rest der Welt, auch in Deutschland, die Hitparadenstürmer.Im September 1969 verließ Dave Dee die Gruppe um eine Solokarriere (u.a. als Mitmoderator des deutschen "Beat-Club") anzustreben. Der Rest (DBM&T) brachte noch bis 1972 neue Aufnahmen heraus, doch dann löste sich die Band auf.In den 1980ern trat die Gruppe ohne Dave Dee erneut auf. In den 1990ern kam im Zuge der Revival-Bewegung die urprüngliche Besetzung mit Dave Dee wieder zusammen.

Singles

• No Time / Is It Love (1965)

• All I Want / It Seems A Pity (1965)

• You Make It Move / I Can't Stop (1965)

• Hold Tight / You Know What I Want (1966)

• Hideaway / Here's A Heart (1966)

• Bend It / She's So Good (1966)

• Save Me / Shame (1966)

• Touch Me Touch Me / Marina (1967)

• Okay! / He's A Raver (1967)

• Zabadak! / The Sun Goes Down (1967)

• The Wreck Of Antoinette / Still Life (1968)

• The Legend Of Xanadu / Please (1968)

• Last Night In Soho / Mrs. Thursday (1968)

• Alben

• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1966)

• If Music Be The Food Of Love Prepare For Indigestion (1966)

• Golden Hits Of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1967)

• A Plea For Sanity (1968)

• If No-one Sang (1968)

• The Legend Of DDDBM&T (1969)

• Together (1969)

• Fresh Ear (1970) nur D,B,M & T

 Sonstige Veröffentlichungen

• Loos Of England (EP, 1967)

• The Hits Of Manfred Mann And DDDBM&T (Kassette, EP, 1967)

• - David Harman (Dave Dee, Gesang),geb. 17.12.1943 in Salisbury
  - Trevor Davies (Dozy, Bass),geb. 27. 11.1944 in Enford
  - John Dymond (Beaky, Gitarre),geb. 10. 7. 1944 in Amesbury
  - Michael Wilson (Mick, Schlagzeug), geb. 4. 3. 1944 in Amesbury und
  - Ian Amey (Tich, Gitarre), geb. 15. 5. 1944 in Salisbury

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Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (DDDBM&T) waren eine britische Rockgruppe, die in den 1960ern etliche Hits hatte.

Biografie

Gegründet wurde die Band 1961 in Salisbury von dem Sänger David Harman ("Dave Dee", *17. Dezember 1943 in Salsibury), dem Bassisten Trevor Davies ("Dozy", *27. November 1944 in Enford), dem Gitarristen John Dymond ("Beaky", *10. Juli 1944 in Amesbury), dem Schlagzeuger Michael Wilson ("Mick",* 4. März 1944 in Amesbury) und dem Gitarristen Ian Amey ("Tich",* 15. Mai 1944 in Salisbury). Sie gaben bald danach ihre bürgerlichen Berufe auf (zum Beispiel war Dave Dee Polizist), um als Musiker ihr Geld zu verdienen. Neben Auftritten in England hatten sie auch gelegentliche Verpflichtungen in Hamburg (Star Club, Top Ten Club) und in Köln (Storyville). Der ursprüngliche Name der Band war Dave Dee And The Bostons.

Im Sommer 1964 wurden die Produzenten Ken Howard und Alan Blaikley auf die Band aufmerksam, und sie erhielten endlich einen Plattenvertrag. Sie nannten sich jetzt Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. Zwischen 1965 und 1969 hatte die Gruppe großen Erfolg. Sie belegte mehr Wochen in den Charts als die Beatles. Zu ihren Hits zählen u. a. Hideaway, Zabadak, Last Night in Soho und The Legend Of Xanadu.

Obwohl die Band in Amerika nicht Fuß fassen konnte, waren sie in anderen Ländern, u. a. in Deutschland, die Hitparadenstürmer.

Im September 1969 verließ Dave Dee die Gruppe um eine Solokarriere (u.a. als Mitmoderator des deutschen "Beat-Club") anzustreben. Der Rest (DBM&T) der Band brachte noch bis 1972 neue Aufnahmen heraus. Da der Erfolg dieser Veröffentlichungen ausblieb, löste sich die Band auf.

In den 1980ern trat die Gruppe - ohne Dave Dee - erneut auf. 1986 wurde eine Single unter dem Bandnamen The Boys veröffentlicht. In den 1990ern kam im Zuge der Revival-Bewegung die ursprüngliche Besetzung mit Dave Dee wieder zusammen.

Diskografie

Singles

• No Time/Is It Love (1965)

• All I Want/It Seems A Pity (1965)

• You Make It Move/I Can't Stop (1965)

• You Make It Move/No Time (1965 - USA)

• Hold Tight/You Know What I Want (1966)

• Hideaway/Here's A Heart (1966)

• Frustration/Hideaway (1966 - Argentinien)

• A Good Thing Goin'/Here's A Heart (1966 - Philippinen)

• Bend It/She's So Good (1966)

• Bend It/You Make It Move (1966 - Deutschland)

• Bend It (diff. lyrics)/She's So Good (1966 - USA)

• Hard To Love You/No Time (1966 - Deutschland/Neuseeland)

• Hard To Love You/Frustration (1966 - Niederlande)

• Save Me/Shame (1966)

• Touch Me Touch Me/Marina (1967)

• Touch Me Touch Me/Nose For Trouble (1967 - Niederlande)

• Okay!/He's A Raver (1967)

• Okay!/Master Llewellyn (1967 - USA)

• Zabadak!/The Sun Goes Down (1967)

• Zabadak!/Nose For Trouble (1967 - Deutschland)

• Zabadak! (Italian version)/Follemente Vivo (1968 - Italien)

• The Legend Of Xanadu/Please (1968)

• Last Night In Soho/Mrs. Thursday (1968)

• The Wreck Of Antoinette/Still Life (1968)

• Hold Tight/The Wreck Of The Antoinette (1968 - Japan)

• The Wreck Of The Antoinette/Last Night In Soho (1968 - Türkei)

• Break Out/Mrs. Thursday (1968 - USA/Kanada)

• Don Juan/Margareta Lidman (1969)

• Don Juan/Still Life (1969 - Japan)

• Run Colorado/Margareta Lidman (1969 - Japan)

• Snake In The Grass/Bora Bora (1969)

• She' s My Lady/Babeigh (1974)

• La Leyenda De Xanadu (live)/What'd I Say (1982 - Spanien)

• Do-Wah-Diddy/Waiting (1983)

• Staying With It/Sure Thing (1983)

Alben (UK)

• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1966)

• If Music Be The Food Of Love Prepare For Indigestion (1966)

• Golden Hits Of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1967)

• A Plea For Sanity (1968)

• If No-one Sang (1968)

• The Legend Of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1969)

• Together (1969)

Diskografie Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Singles

• Tonight Today/Bad News (1969)

• Mr President/Frisco-Annie (1970)

• Festival/Leader Of A Rock 'n' Roll Band (1970)

• Leader Of A Rock 'n Roll Band (diff. beginning)/Festival (1970 - Argentinien)

• I Want to Be There/For The Use Of Your Son (1971)

• They Won't Sing My Song/Soukie (1972)

• You've Got Me On The Run/Rock And Roll (1979)

• In The Coven/I Can't Stop Wanting You (1980)

• Matthew And Son/Matthew And Son (Instrumental) (1986)

• The Boys: Here We Go/Here We Go Again (1986)

Alben

• Fresh Ear (1970)

Soloalben

• Dave Dee: Unfinished Business (1995)

Sonstige Veröffentlichungen

• I'll Love You (EP, 1967, als Werbeschallplatte für Coca Cola ["Things Go Better With Coke"] gemeinsam mit Petula Clark, The Supremes und Ray Charles)

• Loos Of England (EP, 1967)

• The Hits Of Manfred Mann And Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, EP, 1967)

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DDDBM & T... 

>>For the discography, look at the bottom of this page!!

Dave Harman, Trevor Davies,  John Dymond, Michael Wilson en  Ian Amey started in the sixties as a 'friends-group' which had one thing in common: Music. They used several names, of which Dave Dee and the Bostons was the one they used, when they were discoverd by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. In 200w Dave Dee was interviewed on BBC radio. He tells the story how it all began and much more.
On the BBC website we find this interview and it is displayed here:
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/artists/d/dee_dave/located/page1.shtml

Sounding more like a Malory Towers' hockey team than a flamboyant '60s quintet, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich hailed from Wiltshire and formed their eponymously-named band in 1961.

After undergoing the dance hall circuit and supporting successful acts such as the Honeycombs, they were signed to Fontana records in 1964. They hit the charts with 'You Make It Move' and enjoyed a succession of memorable singles including 'Bend It', 'Zabadak' and 'The Legend of 'Xanadu'. Their combination of colourful rhetoric, extravagant costumes and camp theatrics secured their fame throughout the sixties and, apparently, a legion of imitations in the fashion outlets of Carnaby Street.

Whether it was the accident with the bullwhip or a desire to go solo, in 1969 Dave Dee packed his bags and moved on to pursue careers in acting, presenting and A and R. The remaining four continued for a short period, releasing a minor hit, 'Mr President', but eventually disbanded.

Q. How did you all come together back in 1961?
A. Dave Dee: I was always in bands before I left the police force and within two weeks of resigning I had joined a local band which was going to be the nucleus of Dave Dee, Mick, Beaky, Dozy and Titch. Titch and Dozy had a different drummer and singer and I joined as a rhythm guitarist. One day the singer didn't show up for a gig and I did most of the singing. He never got back in the band, simple as that.

Q. You mention being a policeman. Apparently you were at the scene of the Eddie Cochrane crash...
A. Dave Dee: I wasn't at it, we went to it after the crash had happened. I was a police cadet then not a pc. It's been well documented that Eddie Cochrane and Gene Vincent were in the car. We sussed they were musicians soon after we got there because there guitars and gig things all over the road and in the car. We had to take everything back to the station and then realised that it was Cochrane's guitar. I was a huge fan of both him and Gene Vincent.

Q. You quickly became known as much for your rock n' roll as the comic elements to your act. What inspired you? Did that come naturally or were you trying to be different?
A. Dave Dee: We always were different. We did Hamburg along with the Searchers, Jerry And The Pacemakers and Billy J Kramer but when the Beatles took off in 1962 we got left at the starting point. We were known as Dave Dee And The Bostons then and working five or six days a week but we just couldn't get arrested when it came to record companies. We went to most record companies, because in those days you didn't send anything in, you had to go in and do a record test. You used to pile up outside the studio where there would be about ten other bands waiting to be auditioned. They'd give you fifteen minutes to set your gear up, strut your stuff and get out. We had comments like, "Don't call us, we'll call you", "Gentlemen, we suggest you cut your instruments up because you'll never have a hit record." We didn't let it put us of though as we knew one day we would make it. In those days you had dance halls and we would be the support to the top of the bill. When we were on, noone would dance because there was so much going on on stage, humour, action, all sorts of stuff.

Q. Why was it that so many bands sort to establish and home their skills in Hamburg?
A. Dave Dee: There were so many bands not getting work and they went to Hamburg because you could work at the German Top Ten Club or Star Club for two months at a time. OK, so the money was lousy but it was a great source of inspiration for the bands because you used to have to play fifty minutes on and ten minutes off. Some days you'd play for fourteen or fifteen hours. I remember when JF Kennedy came into Hamburg harbour in 1963 and the first Beatles album had come out. Out of boredom from playing the same thing every night we got hold of a Beatles album and played everything off it to break the monotony. All the American sailors were coming in and that was their first taste of the Beatles. They used to come up to us and say, "Gee, what's that music you're playing?" We used to tell them it was the Beatles and they'd ask, "Who are The Beatles?"

Q. When were you touring with the Honeycombs?
A. Dave Dee: That was 1964 when we were doing a summer season at Butlins in Clacton. We used to get Thursday night off and the only way we could make money was to moonlight. We had a gig offered to us in Swindon supporting the Honeycombs. They'd just gone to No.1 with 'Have I The Right'. We went on and did the first hour and Dennis Dell who was the singer of the Honeycombs then went backstage and said to their managers, 'Look, you've got to go and watch this band'. We got a tug into the dressing room afterwards and they said 'We can get you a recording deal'. They gave us their card and told us to come and see them in London. Two weeks later we were doing a gig in Friern Barnet so we thought we'd go and see them. They wrote us a song and put us in with Jo Meak who was the producer for the Honeycombs but we didn't get on with him very well and he threw us out.

Q. Why was that?
A. Dave Dee: He had very strange recording techniques. He wanted us to play the song at half speed and then he would speed it up and put all these little tricks on it. We said we couldn't do it that way. He exploded, threw coffee all over the studio and stormed up to his room. His assistant came in and said, "Mr Meak will not be doing any more recording today." That was it. We lugged all our gear out and went back home.

Q. It only took you a couple of hits before you had a big hit with 'You Make It Move', is that right?
A. Dave Dee: Yes. We'd already started to make indents. We went on Ready Steady Go with 'No Time'. They didn't normally do this way but we actually did a live audition in the foyer of the television studios. They saw it and told us that they'd put us on. So, that's how we got on Ready Steady Go with a song that wasn't a hit.

Q. How did you feel when you got your first hit?
A. Dave Dee: It was what we always believed we would have. We never doubted that we wouldn't make it. About a month before 'You Make It Move' went into the charts we were ready to pack it in. We went to do a gig in Manchester and we had two shillings, old money, between the five of us and we were sitting in a cafe, drinking two cups of coffee between the five of us. We looked at eachother and said, "We can't go on like this. We have to pack it in". But as luck would have it, 'You Make It Move' went into the charts at No.17.

Q. You had about a dozen hits after that and maintained your camp, comic flair...
A. Dave Dee: We started to make and design all our own clothes. We used to go out and buy the material, do the drawings and send them up to a lady in Cheshire who used to make them for us. She was a friend of one of the band members's girlfriends. Every time we did Top Of The Pops, Carnaby Street used to send their spies down to see what we were wearing and within a couple of days you would see our stuff in the windows.

Q. How did that make you feel?
A. Dave Dee: We never realised what kind of influence we were having. People like Hendrix were all starting to wear that colourful, glam stuff. I don't think there was a band before us who had done anything like that. We were also doing Latin stuff before everyone else. If you listen to 'Save Me' we've got all the latin percussion on it but we didn't really know what we were doing except that it was different from everyone else. Then in 2000 the latin influence comes in with Ricky Martin but we had already done it thirty years before.

Q. Did you ever catch anyone with your bullwhip?
A. Dave Dee: Yeah, Dozy, funnily enough. I took a big chunk out of his chin. It was just before we did our first Top Of The Pops and he went on with a great big cut on his face. He's forgiven me now though.

Q.What kept the diversity in your songs going?
A. Dave Dee: We used to collaborate with Howard and Blakely, our managers and songwriters. They would give us a part of a tune and a lyric and we would take it away and tweak it in the studio. All our stuff was done in three hour sessions, A side and B side and then we'd go in the next morning and mix it.
 

Q. Why did you decide to leave in 1969?
A. Dave Dee: I'd been with the boys for ten years and if you live in someone's pocket for that long it takes its toll on you and them. I started looking for other challenges. I wanted to act, I wanted to do cabaret and the easiest thing was to leave the band. Music had started to move on too. Bands like Led Zeppelin and Free had started to come in and I thought for our sort of music the writing was on the wall. In retrospect, I think we could have gone on and done some other things. Some of our B sides were nothing like the pop singles that we made. I think we may have been able to take them onto another level.
 

Q. What did the other band members think at the time?
A. Dave Dee: Disappointed. Worried about what they were going to do. We managed to stay friends with each other. We all came from the same town, our parents knew each other. It was something I had to do. Whether, in retrospect it was the right thing to do, we'll never know.
 

Q. What have you done since you left the band?
A. Dave Dee: I did a couple of films and a couple of things with Frankie Howard and Ned Sherrin. I did a lot of cabaret and television presenting in Germany. I presented The Beat Club which was a big show over there. I could never really handle theatre auditions and I basically blew them, apart from one when I had just decided to take another job as a label manager for a record company. I had gone along to an audition in Covent Garden for a musical and because I had accepted this other job I went in not giving a damn. That was the first time I'd gone to an audition and they'd loved it. It was for Grease. Bill Kenwright's never forgiven me for turning it down. They offered me the part of the second lead and Richard Gear got the main part. Anyway, I went off to Atlantic Records to be a label manager.
 

Q. What are you doing now?
A. Dave Dee: I'm back on the road with the boys at the moment. We're on a seventy-day tour.
 

Q. With all the original members?
A. Dave Dee: Not the original Beaky as he lives in Spain. We're having a lot of fun doing it. I do a lot of work for a music charity and I spend one day a week as a JP in court.
 

Q. What have been your proudest moments throughout your career?
A. Dave Dee: Seeing my parents proud of me having thought I would never make anything out of the music business. When I was a kid I loved jukeboxes and I always wanted to walk into a coffee bar and for someone to put one of our records on. I walked into a transport cafe on the A3 and someone had put on 'Hold Tight'. That was a moment.

Discografie (U.K. releases) Click on the release to open new page

7" singles

1-1965        No Time / Is It Love   

7-1965        All I Want / It Seems A Pity 

11-1965     You Make It Move / I Can't Stop

2-1966        Hold Tight / You Know What I Want

5-1966        Hideaway / Here's A Heart

9-1966        Bend It / She's So Good

11-1966     Save Me / Shame

2-1967       Touch Me Touch Me / Marina

5-1967       Okay / He's A Raver

10-1967     Zabadak / The Sun Goes Down

2-1968       Legend Of Xanadu / Please

6-1968       Last Night In Soho / Mrs. Thursday

9-1968       The Wreck Of The Antoinette / Still Life

2-1969       Don Juan / Margareta Lidman

5-1969       Snake In The Grass / Bora Bora

9-1974      She's My Lady / Babeigh

1-1982      La Leyenda De Xanadu (live!)/What'd I Say (Spain only-release)

1-1983      Do Wah Diddy / Waiting (German only-release)

9-1983      Stayin' With It / Sure Thing

E.P.'s
12-1966    Loos Of England
                   Tracks: Loos Of England, Over And Over Again, Nose For Trouble, All I Want To Do

1-1968      I'll Love You
                   Tracks: I'll Love You / Things Go Better With Coke / Things Go Better With Coke

Albums 'Click Underscored titles to open a screen with new information about that track'

5-1966      Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich (Also on C.D. with bonus tracks)
                   Fontana TL 5350
                   A-side:  1. DDD-BMT  2. We've Got A Good Thing Goin' (on 7" released in Filippines) 3. Here's A Heart,  4. Something I Gotta Tell You, 5. All I Want
                  To  Do,   6. Frustration (on 7" released in Argentina), 7. Hold Tight
                   B-side: 1. Hard To Love You, (on 7" released in the Netherlands, Germany and New-Zealand) 2. Nose For Trouble, 3. No More Love, 4. After Tonight, 5. No Time, 6. Double Agent

12-1966   If Music Be The Food Of Love.. Prepare For Indigestion (Also on C.D. with bonus tracks)
                  Fontana STL 5388
                  A-side: 1. Bang, 2. I'm On The Up, 3. Hideaway, 4. Shame, 5. Hands Off, 6. Loos Of England
                  B-side: 1. Help Me, 2. Master Llewellyn, 3. You Make It Move, 4. All I Want, 5. Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin, 6. Bend It!,
9-1967     Golden Hits (Also released as: O.K., Fontana 6857 001)
                  Fontana TL 5441
                  A compilation album

3-1968    DDDBMT (A Plea For Sanity)
                 Fontana SFL 13002
                 A-side: 1. DDDBMT, 2. The Sun Goes Down, 3. Shame, 4. You Know What I Want, 5. Loos Of England
                 B-side: 1. Over And Over Again, 2. Marina, 3. Nose For Trouble, 4. We've Got A Good Thing Goin', 5. He's A Raver
                 
6-1968     If No-One Sang (Also on C.D. with bonus tracks)
                 Fontana TL 5471
                  A-side: 1. If No-One Sang/Where From Where To, 2. I've Got A Feeling, 3. In A Matter Of A Moment, 4. Mrs. Thursday, 5. Zabadak, 6. Mama Mama
                  B-side: 1. If I Were A Carpenter, 2. The Legend Of Xanadu, 3. Look At Me, 4. The Tide Is Turning, 5. Breakout, 6. Time To Take Off / If No-One Sang  

11-1968  Legend Of...
                 Fontana SFL 13063
                 A compilation album

7-1969    Together (Also on C.D. with bonus tracks)
                 Fontana SFL 13173
                 A-side: 1. Below The Belt, 2. Love Is A Drum, 3. First Time Loving, 4. Bora Bora, 5. Don Juan
                B-side: 1. Snake In The Grass, 2. P. Teaser, 3. Run Colorado (On 7" released in Japan), 4. Margareta Lidman, 5. Mountains Of The Moon

2-1971   Greatest Hits (Also released on C.D. with various titles)
                Philips 6382018
                 A compilation album

6-1976   Greatest Hits
                Philips SON 015
                 A compilation album

4-1984   Greatest Hits
                Philips PRICE 61
                 A compilation album

10-1984 Heartbreak Hotel (Also appearing on various C.D.'s )
                Heartbreak hotel records HH2
                Re-recording versions
                A-side: 1. Hold Tight, 2. Save Me, 3. Okay, 4. Zabadak, 5. The Legend Of Xanadu, 6. Touch Me Touch Me
               B-side: 1. The Wreck Of The Antoinette, 2. Hideaway, 3. Here's A Heart, 4. Last Night In Soho, 5. Bend It, 6. It's So Hard To Love You

C.D.'s (click here to see sleeves)
Lot's of C.D.'s have been released, but in 99% it contained of Songs, already released on vinyl. Some exceptions are mentioned below:
        Boxed, BR Music BOX-1009-2. BR Music released a 4-CD Box in 1999. The best release ever, with the following
        DDDBM&T songs, never ever released:

        Charlie Farns, Barns Has Won The Pools (Harman/Wilson/Davies/Dymond/Amey)
        Castle Far (Ken Howard/Alan Blaikley)
  
        Both songs were recorded for the album 'If No-one Sang' in February 1968, but didn't made the final selection. 

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