22-05-2017 16:57 via theguardian.com

How we made Chesney Hawkes' The One and Only

‘People either loved it or hated it. At the Brit awards, Phillip Schofield got a pitchfork and pushed me into hell’My dad was in the Tremeloes. As a kid, I watched him – Len “Chip” Hawkes – in his leather trousers with his shirt open and girls screaming. “That’s what I want to do,” I thought. But without the leather trousers. By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings. It wa
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