The Dave Clark 5's Mike Smith

NOT UNLIKE 'old man river' the Dave Clark Five keep rolling along and just when the critics are about to re-write their obituaries – missing believed dead in the great ocean of teen-apathy – up they 'pop' with another party piece for the hit parade like 'Good Old Rock and Roll'. Since the advent of super-underground-progressive groups it has become the fashion to regard the more commercial bands with disdain as if there were something not quite nice about simple happy sounds.