Name	Dave Gahan
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Naionality	British
Date of Birth	9 May 1962,
Place of Birth	Epping, England, UK
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Born into a working class family to Sylvia and Len, David was 6 months old when his parents separated. They divorced 2 years later and his mother moved the family -- David and sister Sue (born 1960) -- to Basildon after Sylvia met and married her second husband Jack. The Gahan family continued to grow with the birth of two further brothers Peter (born 1966) and Phil (born 1968). David and Sue were raised under the impression that their mother's second husband (Jack Gahan; from whom Dave takes his second name, and after whom Dave's own son Jack is named) was in fact his real father. Legally and morally this was true, Jack had adopted both Sue and Dave and raised them as his own children. Tragedy struck in 1972 when Jack, the elder Gahan died when David was ten. Gahan recalls how he "came home one day and found this bloke [his biological father] at home". Of the incident, he has said: "I'll never forget that day. When I came home from school, there was this stranger in my mum's house. My Mother introduced him to me as my real dad. I remember I said, crying, that was impossible because my father was dead. How was I supposed to know who that man was? From that day on, Len often visited the house, until one year later he disappeared again. Forever this time. Since then he had no contact with us. By growing older, I thought about him more and more. The only thing my mother would say, was that he moved out to Jersey to open a hotel".[1]. "Mum had kept it back from me til there was a need to tell me about my birth father, it's a different generation and you can understand I guess she thought she was doing the right thing."