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Dave Dee (born David John Harman; 17 December 1941 – 9 January 2009) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, A&R manager, fundraiser and businessman. He was the frontman for the 1960s pop band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.
Dave Dee was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and attended Adcroft School, Trowbridge. Upon leaving school he became a police cadet with the Wiltshire Constabulary and as such was one of the first on the scene of the April 1960 car crash that resulted in the death of Eddie Cochran and serious injury of Gene Vincent. He later recounted that he started learning to play the guitar using Cochran's impounded Gretsch over several nights at the station.
He became a professional musician in 1962. His first group was called 'Dave Dee and the Bostons', who toured the UK and Germany and were a support act to The Honeycombs in 1964. Known for their variety act, which included comedy routines and risque comments interspersed amongst the song, the band came to the notice of Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, changed their name to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, and were signed to Fontana Records, with whom they had a string of hits between 1966 and 1969.
Everything flows in an endless stream
And if we close our eyes
Like a vision or a dream
We'll see this world in it's myriade ways:
Everything flows and every single minute
Brings a change to the earth and to everybody in it -
Watch a million lives playing out their days.
People at this very time
Are making many things-that's
That's so:
But fools are in command.
In the desert rockets point
Towards the stars: in sleazy bars
Someone's getting drunk and ugly:
On the city sidewalks hustlers
Pick their prey: far away.
Bodies bake on surfing beaches.
Tonight
Today
Feel it all going
On-all this moment's different strands of life:
Tonight
Today
We're a part of it all
Though we're on our own and making love.
Everything flows - Nixon's called a meeting:
There's a massive demonstration
And some kids are getting beaten up
In time to make tomorrow's first editions:
Yeah
There's striptease shows
While at Buckingham Palace
They're working out the seating plans for Jackie and Onassis
And in Kalamazoo there's two boys fishing.
People at this very time
Are making many things-that's
That's so:
Speeches and sailing-boats and scenes
While kids in faded jeans
Sit cross-legged in the park:
In a Roman night-club Carlo
Stuffs his mouth
Further south
Dino dines on left-out garbage:
In a jungle hospital
A mother sighs
Baby cries