Enduring love affairs

[Jimbly]

sake

[Deebank]

sake

Not while I'm working. Domo arigatou gozaimasu

[The Modernist]

Liverpool - Love, Beefheart

Pink Floyd too.

[The Modernist]

Roxy Music were particularly popular in Sheffield in the 70s apparently.

[zoomboogity]

"Enduring love affair" should be taken with a grain of salt - I wrote it because it sounds good. But yes, in their heyday the DC5 were more successful than even the Beatles Stateside, however brief a moment it was. Dave Clarke owned the catalog, and did not exploit it very well after the break-up. And he totally missed the boat in the age of CD.

1) Misleading thread titles are not helpful to discussion.
2) The DC5 were never more popular than The Beatles in the US.

Otherwise, welcome back!

[GoogaMooga]

"Enduring love affair" should be taken with a grain of salt - I wrote it because it sounds good. But yes, in their heyday the DC5 were more successful than even the Beatles Stateside, however brief a moment it was. Dave Clarke owned the catalog, and did not exploit it very well after the break-up. And he totally missed the boat in the age of CD.

1) Misleading thread titles are not helpful to discussion.
2) The DC5 were never more popular than The Beatles in the US.

Otherwise, welcome back!

Thanks, Zoom!

1) Poetic license, nothing lasts forever
2) check again

[GoogaMooga]

Okay, DC5 appeared on Ed Sullivan 18 times - more than any other British Invasion group. In 1964, they were the Beatles' biggest rival. But the Beatles did better on the charts, I'll concede.

[sloopjohnc]

America barely remembered the Dave Clark 5 after the 1960s. I've never heard them on oldies radio. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who even recognizes one of their songs if they heard it. They're all but forgotten here.

What Zoomboogity says.

I'm always slightly amazed how much UKers seem to love Springsteen when they barely acknowledge guys like Seger, Petty or John Cougar Mellencamp.

[Jimbly]

America barely remembered the Dave Clark 5 after the 1960s. I've never heard them on oldies radio. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who even recognizes one of their songs if they heard it. They're all but forgotten here.

What Zoomboogity says.

I'm always slightly amazed how much UKers seem to love Springsteen when they barely acknowledge guys like Seger, Petty or John Cougar Mellencamp.

Springsteen would tour the Uk on a regular basis. The others didnt. Same with Cheap Trick, very sporadic touring the Uk.

[clive gash]

Liverpool - Love, Beefheart

Pink Floyd too.

And Zappa.

[naughty boy]

Manchester - Can, Stooges

[naughty boy]

London - Old Mother Riley

[Matt Wilson]

America barely remembered the Dave Clark 5 after the 1960s. I've never heard them on oldies radio. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who even recognizes one of their songs if they heard it. They're all but forgotten here.

What Zoomboogity says.

I'm always slightly amazed how much UKers seem to love Springsteen when they barely acknowledge guys like Seger, Petty or John Cougar Mellencamp.

Guess which one has been on the cover of the NME more?

[Penk!]

America barely remembered the Dave Clark 5 after the 1960s. I've never heard them on oldies radio. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who even recognizes one of their songs if they heard it. They're all but forgotten here.

What Zoomboogity says.

I'm always slightly amazed how much UKers seem to love Springsteen when they barely acknowledge guys like Seger, Petty or John Cougar Mellencamp.

Guess which one has been on the cover of the NME more?

I don't think it's just the UK - in Sweden, Springsteen is a superstar but nobody knows who Seger or Mellencamp are. But are you guys really suggesting that they are anywhere near the same artistic level as Springsteen?

And do they come anywhere near matching his popularity in the States, for that matter?

[Matt Wilson]

As an enduring legacy, no, but Seger had tons of top 40 hits (I counted 18) in the US, and tons more which charted in the top 100. Mellencamp had even more than that.

[naughty boy]

So fuck?

[Matt Wilson]

Time for another NME list thread, John?

[GoogaMooga]

Mellencamp and Seger over Springsteen, any day. Hard to believe that Bruce's two main influences were Spector and Chuck Berry. I have zero interest in the man except for the Sandy song, which the Hollies covered.

[Matt Wilson]

Here, I'll start it off for ya:

[naughty boy]

You have business elsewhere!