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Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads , the Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.
The Very Best of Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Reasons to Be Cheerful: Released: 1 October 1999; Label: Papillon/EMI; Formats: CD, MC; 40 — — UK: Gold [11] Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll – Greatest Hits: Released: 2004; Label: Landmark; Formats: 2xCD — — — Reasons to Be Cheerful – The Best of Ian Dury: Released: 26 September 2005 ...
"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 1 December 1978 and credited to "Ian & the Blockheads". Written by Dury and the Blockheads' multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three in ...
The song was written by Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel in Dury's flat in Oval Mansions, London (nicknamed "Catshit mansions" by Dury) that overlooked The Oval cricket ground.The pattern of work adopted by the pair involved Dury presenting Jankel with his hand-typed lyric sheets.
The song, perhaps the best example of Dury's "Englishness" or "Essexness", was given its fairground-like arrangement by American Steve Nugent. Dury frequently stated (as, for example, in both his biographies Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life Of Ian Dury and Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song) that he saw Dickie as a pathetic figure ...
New Boots and Panties!! is the debut studio album by Ian Dury, released in the UK on Stiff Records on 30 September 1977. The record covers a diverse range of musical styles which reflect Dury's influences and background in pub rock, taking in funk, disco, British music hall and early rock and roll, courtesy of Dury's musical hero Gene Vincent.
Ian Dury and the Music Students. Ian Dury – vocals (credited by the pseudonym 'D. Poundcake' on "Peter the Painter") Michael McEvoy – bass, keyboards, synthesizers, brass arranger, lead guitar on "Tell Your Daddy" and "Take Me to the Cleaners", drums on "Tell Your Daddy" Merlin Rhys-Jones – guitar; Tag Lamche – drums, percussion on ...
The single has most likely contributed to the confusion over exactly what Ian Dury songs are by 'Ian Dury & The Blockheads' including as it did "Wake Up and Make Love with Me" on its B-side: this is not a new version of the song re-recorded by the band but the version from New Boots and Panties!! which is not a Blockheads album (although some ...