Dave Dee, gap-toothed face of the Sixties, dies aged 66

Dave Dee, the charismatic leader of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, one of the most successful pop groups of the late 1960s, died of cancer yesterday at the age of 66. With their stridently groovy clothes, their on-stage horseplay and bizarrely eclectic musical stylings, they were never cool or taken seriously by the rock establishment. Yet between 1965 and 1969, they notched up a string of eight Top 10 hits, and spent more weeks in the singles charts than the Beatles.

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