Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich may not be a household name across the pond, but the British five-piece spent more time on the U.K. charts in the late '60s than
the Beatles did. Universal's
Very Best of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich collects 22 cuts from the infectious, Wilshire-based pop/bubblegum quintet, including "Legend of Xanadu," "Bend It," "Zabadak!," "Okay!" and "Hold Tight!" The latter was resurrected by director Quentin Tarantino in 2007 for the film Deathproof. Like 2000s Polygram International collection
Best of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, all of the major hits are here, though this time around they're buffered by an oddball caché of bonus tracks that includes covers of the
Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," "In Dreams" by
Roy Orbison, and a medley of "Stairway to Heaven" and "Pinball Wizard" by
Led Zeppelin and the
Who, respectively. ~ James Christopher Monger