[blunderbuss]

Music veterans Chas and Dave have split after 35 years together, their agent has announced.

The duo recorded classic household name tunes such as Rabbit, The Sideboard Song and Snooker Loopy.

Bassist and singer Dave Peacock is to retire from the music business following the death of his wife Sue from lung cancer in July.

Pianist Chas Hodges said he will honour their touring commitments under the new name of Chas And His Band.

Chas and Dave's debut album One Fing 'n' Anuvver was released in 1975 and they went on to have eight top 40 singles.

The much-loved artists played the Glastonbury music festival in 2005 and have influenced modern artists like The Libertines.



Gertcha - No 20 in May 1979
Rabbit - No 8 in Nov 1980
Ossie's Dream (with Spurs squad) - No 5 in May 1981
Stars Over 45 - No 21 in Dec 1981
Ain't No Pleasing You - No 2 in March 1982
Tottenham Tottenham - No 19 in May 1982 (with Spurs squad)
Snooker Loopy (with Matchroom Mob) - No 6 in May 1986




The English music world will never be the same again.

[This Is Not Here]

Damn, they were going to play in my local.

[demonrail666]

i've said it once and I'll say it again, the bit when Hodges and Peacock belt out the line "Well I aint gonna be made to look a fool no more" in 'Aint No Pleasing You' is a truly great pop moment.

[PAULYBEE2656]

 

says it all really.....fucking legends!

[demonrail666]

bloody right, especially when you think how awful it could've been

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEMMfV5-Qg

[jon boy]

fuck! first the sugar babes now these guys! british music is being rocked to the core.

[demonrail666]

not a single original member of the sugababes remains. They're now officially the english drifters.

[Glice]

I thought Napalm Death were the English Drifters? Or did they go back to being Napalm Death when Barney re-joined?

[MellySingsDoom]

Chas and Dave were the guv'nors of the English music scene, no mistake. Are the gays allowed to like this pure essence of Rockney?

[Glice]

Let's see - are they hammy/ shite/ hopelessly out of fashion?

Three ticks and they've got their friend of Alice membership card.

[demonrail666]

"friend of Alice membership card"?

[Glice]

Friend of Alice - it's a local variation on friend of Dorothy. It might even be so local as to be that a mate of mine mis-understood when I described someone as friend of Dorothy, but it's stuck now.

If you still don't know, a friend of Dorothy is on the bus. Or enjoys comfortable shoes. Or bowls from the pavillion end. Or is a crafty buthcher (that is, one who gets his meat round the back).

[demonrail666]

i'd not heard of the friend of Dorothy thing either, to be honest. the comfortable shoes bit clarifies it nicely though.

[jon boy]

chas and dave played on the same bill as led zepelin once. thats living alright.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

i'd not heard of the friend of Dorothy thing either, to be honest. the comfortable shoes bit clarifies it nicely though.

Uphill gardener is popular as a euphemism round these parts. I found out today that 'closet' in Latin is also a pun on heart; mis-translations of the Bible have it that people accept Jesus 'into their closet'. I haven't verified if this is where 'out of the closet' comes from (it would seem more likely that one's first thought on what that could mean would be more right) but it's an idea I'm going to mull upon.