Toured with his own rock band, the Mike Smith Rock Engine.
In October of 2003 he was involved in an accident in his home in Spain
that resulted in severe injury to his spinal cord, and he was
permanently paralyzed from the waist down and in his right arm, and
with very little movement in his left arm.
At the time of his death he was about to travel to New York to be inducted into the American Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame with the surviving members of the Dave Clark Five on 10 March 2008.
He lived with his longtime partner, Jane Geerts, for 18 years between 1980 and 1998.