[2] Charles Nicholas "Chas" Hodges and David Victor "Dave" Peacock met in 1963,[3] but the duo only started writing songs together in 1972.

Hodges was with The Outlaws and then Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers in the 1960s, while Dave Peacock was with a group called the Rolling Stones (formed before the more famous one),[5] and The Tumbleweeds, and worked with Mick Greenwood and Jerry Donahue.

[8] Both Hodges and Peacock had worked as session musicians and in backing bands for a wide range of artists; Hodges as part of The Outlaws had worked with Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Bill Haley, and also supported the Beatles as the Rebel Rousers.

[9][10] The hook of the song on which Hodges and Peacock played guitar and bass in 1975, Labi Siffre's "I Got The...", was later sampled on Eminem's "My Name Is".

[13] After Heads Hands & Feet broke up, in November 1972, Hodges spoke to Peacock about forming a band together where they can sing in their own accent and about things they knew.

was used for a television commercial for Courage Bitter, and this song was then re-recorded and released as a single, retitled "Gertcha", which reached No.

[32] After the Christmas special, they were offered their own television series, Chas and Dave's Knees-up, broadcast in 1983.

[34] Chas & Dave had previously been offered the chance to record the theme song for another BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, but turned it down as they were in Australia at the time due to the success of "Ain't No Pleasing You".

There were three episodes recorded at The Starlight Suite at Enfield Football Club[37][38] with special guests the Searchers, Max Bygraves, Warren Mitchell & Stanley Unwin.

[45] In 2005, EMI released a CD of their first two studio albums, and made a new set of their recordings at Abbey Road.

[46] It was announced in September 2009 that the pair would no longer be working together, as Peacock planned to retire from the band following the death of his wife, Sue.

Burt retired from the band, with Chas's son, Nicholas Charles "Nik" Hodges, taking over on drums.

[2] In July 2014, Hodges appeared in the first episode of Graham Fellows' BBC Radio 4 comedy series John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music.

[52] On 19 October, the official website announced the death of Mick Burt, their original drummer, the previous day.

In 2016, the band played in the week 7 episode of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, performing their song "Rabbit".

[41] The rockney style was intentional from the beginning: when Hodges and Peacock got together as a duo in 1972, they felt an alternative to the way British bands copied American accents was needed.

I thought, 'You're being a fraud, you should sing in your own accent', and that's when I started to work on the idea.He then contacted Peacock about the possibility of forming a band performing songs in their natural voice.

[35] In 1983, Chas & Dave presented their own variety show, made by LWT and broadcast on ITV, which was set in an East End pub.