Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich were a chart topping, UK pop group of the 1960s. Biography Five friends from Wiltshire, David Harman, Trevor Davies, John Dymond, Michael Wilson and Ian Amey, formed a group in 1961 called Dave Dee And The Bostons. They soon gave up their jobs (e.g. Dave Dee was a policeman) to make money from music. Apart from performing in Britain, they also occasionally played in Hamburg (Star-Club, Top Ten Club), and in Cologne (Storyville). In the summer of 1964, British songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley became interested in them. They made recordings with Joe Meek that proved unsuccessful but eventually gained a recording contract with Fontana Records. They changed their name to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich ? an amalgam of their nicknames. The distinctive name, coupled with well produced and catchy songs by Howard and Blaikley, quickly caught the UK's public's imagination, and the

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