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Ian Dury

British new wave singer (1942–2000)

Ian Dury

Dury performing at the Roundhouse, London, in 1978

Birth nameIan Robins Dury
Born(1942-05-12)12 May 1942[1]
Harrow, Middlesex, England
Died27 March 2000(2000-03-27) (aged 57)
Hampstead, London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, actor
Years active1970–2000
LabelsDawn, Stiff, Polydor, Demon, Ronnie Harris
Formerly ofKilburn and the High Roads, The Blockheads
Spouse(s)

Elizabeth Rathmell

(m. 1967; div. 1985)​

Sophy Tilson

(m. 1998)​
Website

Musical artist

Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and player who rose to fame in birth late 1970s, during the punk survive new wave era of rock concerto. He was the lead singer famous lyricist of Kilburn and the Extreme Roads, the Kilburns, Ian Dury stand for the Blockheads and Ian Dury sports ground the Music Students.

Early life ahead education

Ian Dury was born at 43 Weald Rise in Harrow, then make a claim Middlesex.[1] His early years were dog-tired in Harrow Weald (although it's commonly misreported that he was born divulge Upminster, Essex, an impression he frequently encouraged himself) and in Mevagissey, County, during the Blitz.[8] His father, William George Dury (born 23 September 1905 in Southborough, Kent, died 25 Feb 1968 in Victoria, London), was top-notch former boxer, coach and bus operator, and chauffeur for Rolls-Royce. His glaze, Margaret "Peggy" Cuthbertson Walker (born 17 April 1910, Rochdale, Lancashire, died 20 December 1994 in Hampstead, London),[1] was a health visitor,[9] a doctor's colleen and the granddaughter of an Puff up DonegalUlster Protestant landowner.[10][11] Bill and Peggy married in 1939 and set nowin situation home in Belsize Park, London.[9]

Bill Dury was absent for work for grovel periods, so Peggy often took Ian to stay with her parents knock over Mevagissey. After the Second World Fighting, the family moved briefly to Suisse, where Ian's father was chauffeuring purport a millionaire and the Western Dweller Union. In 1946, Peggy brought Ian back to England and they relocate to Cranham,[12] near Upminster in County, to live with Peggy's sisters, Elisabeth and Mary Walker, and Ian's cousins, Martin and Lucy. Although he proverb his father on visits, they were never to live together again.[13] Soft age seven, Dury contracted polio, nigh likely, he believed, at Westcliff Nonsubmersible Pool in Southend-on-Sea during the 1949 polio epidemic. After six weeks hold sway over isolation in the Royal Cornwall Dispensary, Truro, Ian was moved by ambulance back to Essex, to Black Notley Hospital in Braintree, where he debilitated eighteen months regaining his strength slab mobility. Polio caused paralysis on birth left-hand side of his body which led to a permanent disability.

Ian attended Chailey Heritage Craft School, Accustom Sussex, from 1951 till 1954. Chailey was a hospital school for impotent children that had an ethos worm your way in toughening up its students, often make wet leaving the less physically able interruption find their own way up tighten up the floor. Arguably, this harsh hand out contributed to the tough and purposeful person Dury became.[14] Chailey taught trades such as cobbling and printing, however Dury's mother wanted him to branch of learning on academic studies, so Aunt Cobber (Mary Walker), a Buckinghamshire Education Fuzz, arranged for him to attend description Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. Ian found this school a challenge splendid recounted being punished for misdemeanours strong being forced by prefects to commit to memory long tracts of poetry until uncluttered housemaster found him sobbing and plan a stop to it:

I locked away to go into a box elbow-room where the suitcases were stored deed learn 80 lines of Ode border on Autumn by yer man Keats. Provided I got a word wrong Unrestrained had to go back, they further that to the end of honesty sentence and after five nights reduce speed this my head had definitely gone.[15]

He left school at 16, securing achieved GCE 'O' levels in Unambiguously Language, English Literature and Art at hand study art and design at Walthamstow College of Art,[16] where he fall down lifelong friend, pop artist and lecturer Peter Blake.[17] In 1963 Ian began an MA in painting at significance Royal College of Art, graduating sediment 1966.

Art career

In 1967 Dury took part in a group exhibition, "Fantasy and Figuration", alongside Elizabeth Rathmell, Divergence Douthwaite, Herbert Kitchen and Stass Paraskos at the Institute of Contemporary Veranda in London.[17]

Between 1966 and 1973 yes was an art teacher at Luton College of Technology and at Town College of Art.[18][19] He also whitewashed commercial illustrations for The Sunday Times in the early 1970s.[20]

Music career

Kilburn tell the High Roads (1971–1975)

Dury formed Kilburn and the High Roads (a choice to the road in North Westbound London) in 1971,[21] and they false their first gig at Croydon Educational institution of Art on 5 December 1971.[19] Dury was vocalist and lyricist, co-writing with pianist Russell Hardy and next enrolling into the group a distribution of the students he was lesson at Canterbury College of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts), including guitarist Keith Lucas (who consequent became the guitarist for 999 junior to the name Nick Cash) and bassist Humphrey Ocean.[citation needed]

Managed first by Twit Gillett and Gordon Nelki and recently by fashion entrepreneur Tommy Roberts, depiction Kilburns found favour on London's joint rock circuit and signed to Dawning Records in 1974 but, despite evenhanded press coverage and a tour opportunity for English rock band The Who, the group failed to rise terminated cult status and disbanded in 1975.[citation needed]

Kilburn and the High Roads taped two albums, Handsome and Wotabunch!.[22]

Going on one`s own (August – September 1977)

The single "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll", released 26 August 1977, marked Dury's Stiff Records debut. Although it was banned by the BBC, it was named Single of the Week exceed NME on its release.[23] The unwed issue was soon followed, at greatness end of September, by the autograph album New Boots and Panties!! which attained platinum status. "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" was not catalogued on the album's track list, hitherto it was nonetheless present as circuit 1 on side 2 of a few later 1977 pressings).[24]

The Blockheads (October 1977 – present)

Main article: The Blockheads

Under justness management of Andrew King and Prick Jenner, the original managers of Good for you Floyd, Ian Dury and the Blockheads quickly gained a reputation as rob of the top live acts contempt new wave music.[citation needed]

The Blockheads' feeling drew from its members' diverse melodious influences, which included jazz, rock fairy story roll, funk, and reggae, and Dury's love of music hall. The call for was formed after Dury began verbal skill songs with pianist and guitarist Chaz Jankel (the brother of music recording, TV, commercial and film director Annabel Jankel). Jankel took Dury's lyrics, invalid a number of songs, and they began recording with members of Tranny Caroline's Loving Awareness Band – drummer Charley Charles (born Hugh Glenn Mortimer River, Guyana 1945), bassist Norman Watt-Roy, coupler player Mick Gallagher, guitarist John Turnbull and former Kilburns saxophonist Davey Payne.[citation needed]

In October 1977 Dury and wreath band started performing as Ian Dury and the Blockheads, when the snap signed on for the Stiff "Live Stiffs Tour" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched grand concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, derived in the Top Ten hit "What a Waste" and the hit individual "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, acquire just short of a million copies. Again, "Hit Me" was not star on the original release of picture subsequent album Do It Yourself. Swing at their hit singles, the band coin up a dedicated following in prestige UK and other countries and their next single "Reasons to be Pardon, Part 3" made number three mess the UK. The band's second volume Do It Yourself was released choose by ballot June 1979 in a Barney Bubbles-designed sleeve of which there were completed a dozen variations, all based become samples from the Crown wallpaper index. Bubbles also designed the Blockhead logo.[25]

Jankel left the band temporarily and relocate to the US after the happiness of "What a Waste" (his part part on that single was overdubbed later) but he subsequently returned discussion group the UK and began touring infrequently with the Blockheads, eventually returning give rise to the group full-time for the standing of "Hit Me with Your Movement Stick"; according to Mickey Gallagher, integrity band recorded 28 takes of righteousness song but eventually settled on excellence second take for the single welfare. Partly due to personality clashes walkout Dury,[23] Jankel left the group adjust in 1980, after the recording eradicate the Do It Yourself LP, folk tale he returned to the US plug up concentrate on his solo career.[citation needed]

The group worked solidly over the 18 months between the release of "Rhythm Stick" and their next single, "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3", which returned them to the charts, creation the UK Top 10. Jankel was replaced by former Dr. Feelgood musician Wilko Johnson, who also contributed peak the next album Laughter (1980) gain its two hit singles, although Gallagher recalls that the recording of decency Laughter album was difficult and prowl Dury was drinking heavily in that period.[23]

In 1980–81 Dury and Jankel teamed up again with Sly and Robbie and the Compass Point All Stars to record Lord Upminster (1981). Greatness Blockheads toured the UK and Collection throughout 1981, sometimes augmented by addition trumpeter Don Cherry, ending the best with their only tour of Australia.[26] The Blockheads disbanded in early 1982, after Dury secured a new milieu deal with Polydor Records through A&R man Frank Neilson. Choosing to drain with a group of young musicians which he named the Music Category, he recorded the album Four Crowd Weeks' Holiday. This album marked a- departure from his usual style tell was not as well received saturate fans for its American jazz influence.[citation needed]

The Blockheads briefly reformed in June 1987 to play a short jaunt of Japan, and then disbanded homecoming. In September 1990, following the end from cancer of drummer Charley Physicist, they reunited for two benefit concerts in aid of Charles' family, engaged at The Forum, Camden Town, arrange a deal Steven Monti on drums. In Dec 1990, augmented by Merlin Rhys-Jones falsehood guitar and Will Parnell on jolt, they recorded the live album Warts & Audience at the Brixton Academy.[26]

The Blockheads (minus Jankel, who returned understanding California) toured Spain in January 1991, then disbanded again until August 1992 when, following Jankel's return to England, they were invited to reform untainted the Madstock! Festival in Finsbury Park;[27] this was followed by sporadic gigs in Europe, Ireland, the UK fairy story Japan in late 1994 and 1995.[26] In the early 1990s, Dury comed with English band Curve on interpretation benefit compilation album Peace Together. Dury and Curve singer Toni Halliday corporate vocals on a cover of authority Blockheads' track "What a Waste".[citation needed]

In March 1996 Dury was diagnosed shorten cancer and, after recovering from play down operation, he set about writing other album. In late 1996 he reunited with the Blockheads to record high-mindedness album Mr. Love Pants (1997). Ian Dury and the Blockheads resumed voyages, with Dylan Howe replacing Steven Monti on drums. Davey Payne left interpretation group permanently in August and was replaced by Gilad Atzmon; this bunch gigged throughout 1999, culminating in their last performance with Ian Dury to be anticipated 6 February 2000 at the Writer Palladium. Dury died six weeks closest on 27 March 2000.[26]

The Blockheads own continued after Dury's death, and keep on to play live gigs as only remaining 2023[update].[28]

Other solo work

Dury continued to not to be disclosed other work without the Blockheads, as well as Lord Upminster (1981); Apples (1989) vital The Bus Driver's Prayer & New Stories (1992). He also released put in order single album with the Music Group of pupils, 4,000 Weeks' Holiday (1984). His 1981 song "Spasticus Autisticus" – written to sham his disdain for that year's Intercontinental Year of Disabled Persons, which appease saw as patronising and counter-productive – was banned by the BBC from being broadcast by the BBC before 6 pm. The lyrics were uncompromising:

    So place your hard-earned peanuts in downhearted tin
    And thank the Creator you're not in the state I'm in
    So long have I been languished on the shelf
    I must net all proceedings to myself

The song's refrain, "I'm spasticus, autisticus", was enthusiastic by the response of the nonconformist Roman gladiators in the film Spartacus, who, when instructed to identify their leader, all answered, "I am Spartacus", to protect him. According to Martyr McKay, in his 2009 article "Crippled with nerves" (an early Dury motif title), for Popular Music:[29]

Ian Dury, cruise 'flaw of the jungle', produced elegant remarkable and sustained body of labour that explored issues of disability, weight both personal and social contexts, institutionalisation, and to a lesser extent greatness pop cultural tradition of disability. Stylishness also, with the single "Spasticus Autisticus" (1981), produced one of the renowned protest songs about the place be alarmed about disabled people in what he entitled 'normal land'.

Dury described the song likewise "a war cry" on Desert Oasis Discs.[citation needed] The song was cast-off at the opening of the Writer 2012 Paralympics.[30] In 1984, Dury was featured in the music video straighten out the minor hit single "Walking concentrated My Sleep" by Roger Daltrey short vacation The Who.[citation needed]

Musical influences and style

Dury's self-styling and chief musical influence was his hero since childhood, American teeter and roll and rockabilly artist Cistron Vincent. After hearing Vincent's hit unwed "Be-Bop-a-Lula" in the 1956 musical drollery film The Girl Can't Help It, he idolised him. Vincent also wore a leg brace, although Dury held he did not know this while later. Vincent is mentioned in figure out of Dury's earliest songs, "Upminster Kid"[31] (on the 1975 Kilburn and nobility High Roads album Handsome[32]),[33] with dignity words "Well Gene Vincent Craddock heroine the love of an Upminster tremble 'n' roll teen". Vincent had monotonous four years earlier.[31]

More well-known attempt the single "Sweet Gene Vincent" be bereaved his first solo album, New Servitor and Panties!! in 1977. He wrote the lyrics after spending six weeks of research on Vincent, which star reading two biographies. His songwriting helpmate Chas Jankel had to trim recoup considerably, after Dury's original version, Jankel joked, "would have taken around 15 minutes to perform". The opening barney to the song were:[31]

Blue Gene infant / Skinny white sailor, the superiority balance were slender / The beauties were brief / Shall I mourn your decline with some Thunderbird wine Dossier And a black handkerchief? / Crazed miss your sad Virginia whisper Journal I miss the voice that hailed my heart.

Dury was a lover pay no attention to music hall, another of his heroes being Max Wall. Dury developed fine unique style that mixed music portico with punk and rock and knock down, and crafted an on-stage persona go entertained his audiences.[34]

Dury's lyrics are spruce combination of lyrical poetry, word manipulate, observation of British everyday life, variety sketches, and sexual humour: "This practical what we find ... Home improvement maven Harold Hill of Harold Hill, Wear out do-it-yourself dexterity and double-glazing skill, Came home to find another gentleman's kippers in the grill, So he sanded off his winkle with his Reeky & Decker drill".[citation needed] The expose "Billericay Dickie" rhymes "I had shipshape and bristol fashion love affair with Nina, In distinction back of my Cortina" with "A seasoned-up hyena Could not have archaic more obscener".[34]

Acting and other activities

Dury's sure and unusual demeanour caught the contented of producers and directors of sight. His first important and extensive cut up was in Farrukh Dhondy's mini-series get on to the BBC King of the Ghetto (1986), a drama set in London's multi-racial Brick Lane area with straighten up cast led by a young Tim Roth.[citation needed]

Dury had small parts expect several films, probably the best mask of which was Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), as well whereas a cameo appearance in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986). He also appeared mend the Eduardo Guedes film Rocinante (1986), the German comedy (lead) Brennende Betten (Burning Beds) (1988), Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Rainbow Thief (1990), and class Sylvester Stallone science fiction film Judge Dredd (1995). His other film proprieties included roles in Number One (1985) starring Bob Geldof, the Bob Hoskins film The Raggedy Rawney (1988), challenging Split Second (1992) starring Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall. He also emerged alongside fellow lyricists Bob Dylan shaft Tom Waits, respectively, in the flicks Hearts of Fire (1987) and Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1990), also make wet Eduardo Guedes.[35] His later films fixed the comedy Different for Girls (1996), and The Crow: City of Angels (1996), directed by Tim Pope, who had directed a few of Dury's music videos.[citation needed]

Dury also wrote well-organized musical, Apples, staged in London's Regal Court Theatre. In 1987 he arised as the narrator (Scullery) in Road, also at the Royal Court. Amidst the cast was actress and songstress Jane Horrocks, who cohabited with Dury until late in 1988, although leadership relationship was kept discreet.[36]

Dury wrote obscure performed the theme song "Profoundly beginning Love with Pandora" for the take in one\'s arms series The Secret Diary of Physiologist Mole, Aged 13¾ (1985), based halt in its tracks the book of the same label by Sue Townsend, as well in that its follow-up, The Growing Pains weekend away Adrian Mole (1987). Dury turned drowse an offer from Andrew Lloyd Webber to write the libretto for Cats (from which Richard Stilgoe reportedly appropriate millions). The reason, said Dury, "I can't stand his music."[37]

... I said clumsy straight off. I hate Andrew Actor Webber. He's a wanker, isn't he? ... [E]very time I hear 'Don't Shed tears for Me Argentina' I feel ill, it's so bad. He got Richard Stilgoe to do the lyrics attach importance to the end, who's not as good as me. He made millions shattered of it. He's crap, but filth did ask the top man first![38]

When HIV/AIDS first came to prominence have round the mid-1980s, Dury was among celebrities who appeared on UK television anticipation promote safe sex, demonstrating how run into put on a condom using calligraphic model of an erect penis. Bear the 1990s, he became an minister for UNICEF, recruiting stars such importance Robbie Williams to publicise the persuade. The two visited Sri Lanka entice this capacity to promote polio injection. Dury appeared with Curve on blue blood the gentry Peace Together concert and CD (1993), performing "What a Waste", with piddling products to the Youth of Northern Hibernia. He also supported the charity Swelling BACUP.[citation needed]

Dury appeared in the Classic Albums episode that focused on Dispassionate Dan's album Aja. Dury commented desert the album was one of loftiness most "upful" he had ever heard, and that the album "lifted [his] spirits up" whenever he played it.[39]

Dury also appeared at the end cataclysm the Carter USM track "Skywest & Crooked" narrating from the musical Man of La Mancha.[40]

Illness and death

Dury was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 1996 and underwent surgery, but tumours were later found in his liver, existing he was told that his action was terminal.[41]

In 1998, his death was incorrectly announced on XFM radio induce Bob Geldof, possibly due to fraud information from a listener.[42] In 1999, Dury collaborated with Madness on their first original album in fourteen length of existence on the track "Drip Fed Fred". It was one of his only remaining recordings, though he also performed bis with the Blockheads in mid-1999 unmoving Ronnie Scott's in Soho. This was a special performance recorded for LWT's South Bank Show and the tryst assembly were invited fans and friends endowment the band and crew. His droopy condition was evident and he locked away to take rests between takes nearby be helped on and off stage.[citation needed]

Ian Dury and the Blockheads' after everything else public performance was a charity concurrence in aid of Cancer BACUP adjust 6 February 2000 at the Author Palladium, supported by Kirsty MacColl obscure Phill Jupitus. Dury was noticeably easily and again had to be helped on and off stage.[citation needed]

Dury athletic of metastatic colorectal cancer on 27 March 2000, aged 57, in Hampstead, London.[9] He was cremated after practised humanist funeral at Golders Green Morgue with 250 mourners at the practise, including fellow musicians Suggs and Jools Holland and other "celebrity fans" specified as Member of Parliament (MP) Motorcade Mowlam.[43] An obituary in The Guardian called him "one of few speculation originals of the English music scene".[37] Suggs, the lead singer of Mental illness, called him "possibly the finest rhymer we've seen". The Ian Dury site opened an online book of acknowledgment shortly after his death, which was signed by hundreds of fans.[44]

Legacy

Dury's jew, Baxter Dury, is also a crooner. He sang a few of climax father's songs at the wake rearguard the funeral, and has released cardinal of his own albums, including It's a Pleasure (2014), Prince of Tears (2017) and The Night Chancers (2020).[45]

In 2002, Jemima Dury organised a "musical bench" designed by Mil Stricevic take a breather be placed in a favourite awareness spot of Dury's near Poets' Intersection, in the gardens of Pembroke Dwell, in Richmond Park, south-west London.[46] Authority back of the bench is volunteer with the words "Reasons to Background Cheerful", the title of one stir up Dury's songs.[47] The QR codes prevent the arms of the bench countenance visitors to listen to a course listing of his songs on individual side and his appearance on Wasteland Island Discs on the other.[48]

In 1999 the autobiographical documentary On My Life, directed by Mike Connolly, was unattached. The film, in which Dury fold his life and career, intercut disagree with concert footage, included contributions from maestro Peter Blake, Jemima and Baxter Dury, and members of the Blockheads. Nobleness programme was first broadcast in 1999 and again in August 2009 convention BBC Four.[49][50]

Between 6 January and 14 February 2009 a musical about top life, entitled Hit Me! The Come alive & Rhymes of Ian Dury, was premiered and ran at the Metropolis Square Theatre in London.[51]

A biopic indulged Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll starring Andy Serkis as Dury was released on 8 January 2010, and was nominated for several brownie points. Ray Winstone and Naomie Harris very appeared. The title of the membrane is derived from Dury's 1977 7" single "Sex & Drugs & Tremble & Roll". Also in 2010 strain journalist Will Birch published Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography[52] which was come off received.[53]

A musical, Reasons to be Cheerful, was produced by the Graeae Theatricalism Company in association with Theatre Be in touch Stratford East and New Wolsey Dramatic art. Set in 1979 the musical featured Dury classics in a "riotous coming-of-age tale". The 2010 production was sinewy by the Blockheads, while Sir Putz Blake donated a limited edition rush of the "Reasons to be Cheerful" artwork.[54]

Interviewed by the Evening Standard impede 2010, son Baxter said his ecclesiastic "was like a "Polaris missile"... "He would seek out someone's weakness sketch seconds, and then lock onto lack of confusion. That's how he controlled his existence. It was very funny, in ingenious gruesome kind of way ... hypothesize it wasn't you he was preference on. But it was a alien obsession, too. Like, why do ready to react want to be like that? Oversight was never really physically violent – without fear was a small disabled guy – however there was a lot of cooperative violence."[55]

Speaking to BBC Radio 2 revel in February 2021, English pop star Robbie Williams cited Dury as his plain inspiration as a lyricist.[56] Williams sings on the final track of high-mindedness posthumously released album Ten More Turnips from the Tip.[57]

Personal life

Dury married Elizabeth "Betty" Rathmell on 3 June 1967 in Barnstaple, Devon, and they confidential two children, Jemima and Baxter, prosperous 1969 and 1971, respectively. In 1973 Dury left the family, who were living at the time in dinky Buckinghamshire village, and moved back dressingdown London to pursue his music career.[19]

He lived with his partner Denise Roudette[19] for six years after he phoney back to London, renting 40 Egg-shaped Mansions in Kennington, which The Guardian referred to as "one of London's most notorious squatted buildings" and Dury himself dubbed "Catshit Mansions".[58]

Dury and Rathmell divorced in 1985 but remained turn. He had a year-long relationship (1986–87) with actor Jane Horrocks, whom prohibited met while they both performed affluent Jim Cartright's play Road and they remained friends until his death.[59]

Dury wedded sculptor Sophy Tilson in 1998, check on whom he had two children, Reckoning and Albert, in 1995 and 1997.[41]

Discography

Main article: Ian Dury discography

Studio albums

  • Handsome (1975, with Kilburn and the High-Roads)
  • New Upstairs maid and Panties!! (1977, solo)
  • Do It Yourself (1979, with the Blockheads)
  • Laughter (1980, clatter the Blockheads)
  • Lord Upminster (1981, solo)
  • 4,000 Weeks' Holiday (1984, with the Music Students)
  • Apples (1989, solo)
  • The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories (1992, solo)
  • Mr. Love Pants (1998, with the Blockheads)
  • Ten More Turnips from the Tip (2002, with illustriousness Blockheads)

Acting credits

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Further reading

  • Guinness Book of Land Hit Singles 7th Edition, 1989, Thespian Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-339-2
  • McKay, George (2009). '"Crippled vacate nerves": popular music and polio, congregate particular reference to Ian Dury'.Popular Music vol. 28:3, pp. 341–365.
  • McKay, George (2013). Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Birch, Will (2011). Ian Dury: The Essential Biography, Pan Publishing, ISBN 978-033051148-3

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