Peter

young Peter

### Relatives

Ellis Eden (granddaughter) Henry Eden (son) Martin Eden (son) Giles Eden (son) Annette Eden (daughter)

## Appearances

### Appears in

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Peter (Peter Glynns Eden) is a main supporting character within Hammond's LP canon. He is Lizzy's grandfather and primary parental figure who also served to precede her career in music.

Peter has been musically active since 1956. Growing up, he played both folk and jazz on banjo with his father Lawrence before learning drums in order to join his friend Turner and his band. In school, he would try out and play select instruments such as trumpet, trombone, flute, piano, and even classical bass. He officially joined Turner in his band called The Tin Cans in 1958 as their drummer. His career with the rest of the band was made up as a local group who found earnings after nightly gigs, whether they were formally paid or given spare change by the audience. In 1961, Peter dropped out of school to pursue his early career in music, not wanting to be left behind by the group as the rest of his bandmates were older and already graduated, beginning their travels out of Liverpool.

### The Tin Cans

From 1962 to 1963, the Tin Cans spent up to a year away from home playing in Europe to earn enough for a flight back. They migrated back to England in mid 1963 where they decided on a steady schedule staying in England, which they quickly found an audience among the Mod community following their frontman and bassist Dougie's lead also being a devoted member of Mod culture himself. However, with their look and lead as a Mod group brought them some conflict on the streets, be it from Rockers or disturbed locals during their travels. Following cultural change by 1967 is when the band began to disband after feeling timely irrelevant, which finally settled a breakup between the Tin Cans immediately following the death of Dougie and Peter's arrest.

### Storyline

Being a fugitive after false murder charges, Peter for most of 1969 went into hiding in New York also to find Maurie before getting deported. From then after being retried in 1970 for his sentence to be reevaluated, Peter returned to Liverpool newly wed expecting a son and for a quiet life. Until 1998 he would leave music on hiatus in favor of raising his family of 4 children, which by then were grown and graduated. Even there, he's found and dedicated his time to raising his granddaughter Lizzy, who also revitalized his musical interest again in the process of his own efforts to amend the sour relationship she had with music her Uncle Henry had set up. In recent time, Peter stays and lives alone but healthy in Liverpool, calling Lizzy every week across the pond to ask how she is.

### Creation

Following Lizzy and Porgy lore, Hammond was in a mood for new characters to oppose boredom or shortage of material. Peter was birthed in the idea Lizzy may not have had a typical childhood with mum and dad, while also being somewhat akin to Hammond's own family background and experiences growing up. As expected with ideas coming to head and a quick listen to Band on the Run, Peter quickly became a character with good potential being both interesting and not too overshadowing of the main cast, coming first before Maurie.