Lenny Davidson

As the lead guitarist for the Dave Clark Five, Lenny Davidson was one of the more prominent musicians to emerge in the early days of the British Invasion. The group, whose roots went back to the late '50s, started with a lead guitarist named Mick Ryan and with Rick Huxley on rhythm guitar, but by 1962 they'd gone through several lineup changes, Huxley had switched to bass, and 18-year-old Lenny Davidson, then working at a plant manufacturing tubing, had been recruited on lead guitar. Davidson, born in Enfield in 1944, had started playing guitar at the end of the 1950s -- his m...