Has died. Part of my youth will be forever Cheggered. He always came across as a likeable chap.
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Has died. Part of my youth will be forever Cheggered. He always came across as a likeable chap.
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Some good memories. Some not so good – thanks Channel 5.
This is terrible partly because he always seemed to be about eight years old.
Seemed like a nice man who lost his way or just fell out of fashion.
Jethro Tull, ‘The Cheggered Flag’ – ‘isn’t it grand to be playing to the stand, dead or alive’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXq6hVff9lU
I was always delighted that he was Janice Long’s bro. Dunno why. Just.
Thanks Retro, I’d forgotten that.
Wasn’t afraid to send himself up in later years. I enjoyed the things he did with Ricky Gervais. Can’t remember if it was “extra”s or “life’s too short”.
In my (unreliable) memory, I first encountered Cheggers – very young – in one of my sister’s pop mags, holding an acoustic guitar and being a single page poster “pin up” à la the Davids Cassidy and Essex (it was the name, rather than the cheeky grin that caused it to stick for subsequent recognition in the “Swapping anarchy OBs”).
No mention of his music heartthrob days in the obit, but if I’m right, he did indeed “play pop”…
Also in Polanski’s Macbeth in 71.
He did have a go at a pop career, I remember they used to rib him about it occasionally on Swap Shop. According to Discogs he did get a couple of singles out on Pye in 77. According to Wikipedia he was also a member of ‘Do The Bump’ Hitmakers Kenny? And there was Brown Sauce.
Paging @Beany
F**k Off!!!! Cheggers was on The Bump!!! That’s up there with the Derek Griffiths revelation. Also: glad to have his pop career confirmed, as I’m at the edge where the lines between memory and hallucination are blurred..
The Derek Griffiths Revelation. Two highly collectable albums on Impulse! records in the early 1970s. Skronks aplenty.
I hope someone gets around to updating his website. He’s still taking bookings…
https://www.keithchegwin.com/
He has a twin brother who worked for EMI Records. I’m sure he released a record with Keith at one time. I shall delve deeper. Impressive photo gallery on his website. Of course we all know his sister is Janice Long (don’t we?)
http://www.jeffchegwin.com/
Interesting that he doesn’t add Max Clifford’s name to the list of people in the photo with Max Clifford in.
Love the fact that “1977 on Pye” is for @beany what for the rest of us would be “1966 on Motown”.
His dreams of pop nirvana are, sadly, all Pye in the sky. He is, as a result, RAKed with woe.
But not a complete Bell end. Even on his Penny Farthing, and hiding Also cubes about his person (Private Stock). And smoking Embassy
I’ve struggled to get Bradley’s into one of these gags, but I can think of no way in which to do so. Alas.
In later years, like most of us, he put on a bit of weight – becoming quite a Chinnichap..
(Also = Oxo, otherwise the very lame joke makes no sense)
Oh no, not Cheggers.
Saw him on a Swap Shop OB as a kid entirely by chance – it was at the Barbican in London and there they were all live and on air. You got the impression that there was this party going on when the TV show cuts to the OB – but what actually happened was everyone dispersed/disappeared into trailers when the cameras went off. Everything went abruptly silent as soon as Cheggers passed back to the studio.
I shouldn’t be surprised by that, but I am. Surprised and saddened.
Knew him slightly several years ago and can confirm that he was indeed a lovely bloke – what you saw was what you got. It’s very sad news
Keith’s job was to entertain us kids in the late 70s and early 80s and he did that very well. He was perhaps the Glam Rock version of Blue Peter’s John Noakes. Upon first broadcast in 1978 the BBC Head of Children’s Programmes Edward Barnes apparently described ‘Cheggers Plays Pop’ as “the most vulgar thing I have ever seen – but I’ll recommission it!” so he was obviously doing something right.
Here’s Keith doing what he did best, in this instance driving the Wurzels around on a dayglo Tractor.
I always put him in the same category as Mike Read. “Run arahand, Now!!!” Joyful Buffoonery. Sorry to hear of his passing but hardly an epoch defining moment.
erm … Mike Read (spelt e-a-d) is an old Radio 1 DJ who was most famous for declining to play Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax” because it was a bit rude.
Bri, I suspect you’re thinking of the lovable cockney comedian and EastEnders star Mike Reid (spelt e-i-d).
I bought* Mrs F the Mike Reid Sings album for comedy Christmas present once. I spent the whole time waiting for him to shout “Paaht!”
(*) I went into my local record shop, picked it up, took it to the counter, and said “I’m not paying for it but I’m prepared to take it off your hands”.
“No, of course I don’t want a bag. Do you think I don’t want people to know that I bought it?”
Pilchard!
I know he is. Bit mean to say it out loud though.