Early life Clark was born in
Tottenham, then lived in
Middlesex. He left school without qualifications at the age of 15 and claims to have become a film
stuntman, performing in over 40 films (although IMDB only gives him four pre-fame film credits).
Andrew Loog Oldham, former manager of
the Rolling Stones, said of the band's early success as rivals to the Beatles: "If the Beatles ever looked over their shoulders, it was not the Stones they saw. They saw the Dave Clark 5 or
Herman's Hermits." The band broke up in 1970, and Clark stopped drumming in 1972 after he broke four knuckles in a
tobogganing accident. Clark is an entrepreneur and a multi-millionaire. He owns a
£12 million house in
West London. In the late 1960s, in addition to managing his band, Clark began directing and producing for television. In 1968 he made a television production, ''Hold On, It's the Dave Clark Five''. in September 1965 On the release of a Dave Clark Five British hits album in the mid-1970s, Clark resided in the US for a year, thus avoiding paying UK taxes in Britain on the proceeds of that release. The
British government challenged this but lost the case in court. In 1993, Clark released
remastered versions of all the Dave Clark Five singles on a CD,
Glad All Over Again. == Personal life ==