Kate Garner was a little girl when she inspired her father, Chas, to write his first album with Dave, 50 years ago
I was born in 1971 at North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton – same place as my dad. But the year I was there, a cockroach plague forced all mothers and babies to evacuate to a maternity home in Bishops Avenue, the former home of Gracie Fields. And here I spent the first week of my life, in a cot in the ballroom! That very same year, 1971, my dad, Chas Hodges, formed a duo with Dave Peacock – and thus Chas and Dave were also born. My dad played guitar. Dave was on bass. They set off to a pub, The Charcoal Burner in Ilford. They played anywhere and everywhere – everything from rock ’n’ roll to singalong. This combined the music they both learnt from the family parties around a piano with the rock ’n’ roll bands of their youth. They were also in great demand as session musicians and...
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