"Dagenham Dave" is a song by English singer-songwriter Morrissey, issued as a single in August 1995, a week prior to the release of his fifth studio album, Southpaw Grammar (1995).
This was the second Morrissey solo single not to feature the singer on the cover; instead, English football coach and former player Terry Venables is pictured sticking out his tongue.
[3] The promotional video for the single featured former Grange Hill actor Mark Savage as the titular Dave.
[5] NME gave a negative review, saying that this single showed that "Morrissey has become the embarrassing incontinent grandfather of Britpop".
[6] In his book Mozipedia, Simon Goddard called it "a mettlesome pop cartoon featuring, if nothing else, the greatest utterance of the word 'pie' by any singer in the entire history of recorded music.