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  Ian Dury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dury was inspired to form Kilburn and the High Roads (a pun on the road in north London) in 1971 following the death of his hero Gene Vincent (with whom he may have identified because he also had a leg disability).
Dury was vocalist and lyricist, co-writing with pianist Russell Hardy and later enrolling into the group a number of the students he was teaching at Canterbury School of Art, including guitarist Keith Lucas and bassist Humphrey Ocean.
Ian Dury and The Blockheads' last performance was a charity concert in aid of Cancer Bacup on February 6, 2000 at The London Palladium.
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 Ian Dury
Ian Dury (May 12, 1942 - March 27, 2000) was a rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader.
He is best known as founder and lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, although began his musical career in pub rock act Kilburn and the High Roads[?].
Ian Dury lived with the effects of polio, which he contracted at the age of seven, very likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend on Sea.
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 Ian Dury - Rockabilly Central
IAN DURY, who has died aged 57, enjoyed great success in the late 1970s and secured a lasting place in the corpus of English popular song; he was liked and respected for his personality as well as for the lyrics he wrote.
Dury chose for his band a name he had already applied to the type of unpleasant London youths who drove fl and orange cars, had pasty faces and made a habit of getting violently drunk.
Ian Dury had a son and a daughter by his first wife Betty, from whom he was divorced in 1985 and who predeceased him.
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 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Ian Dury
Ian Dury, who has died of cancer aged 57, was one of few true originals of the English music scene, the only man to successfully combine the energy and excitement of rock 'n' roll and funk with the bawdy humour, wit and home-spun philosophy of music-hall and of his native Essex.
The young Ian went to live in Upminster with his mum, but was struck down by polio at the age of seven.
At the time, Dury insisted to me that, as an unlikely pop star, he was merely continuing his career as an artist: "I was a painter for seven years, a successful illustrator for two years, and now I'm a rock 'n' roll singer.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,182378,00.html   (1219 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Rock star Ian Dury dies
Dury, who made his name fronting the Blockheads in the late 70s, had a tumour on his colon removed, but by January 1998 it had spread to his liver.
Dury had spoken publicly about his battle with cancer, insisting he had no fear of death and campaigning with charities to raise money for research and care.
Dury was seen as one of the unlikeliest music heroes of his generation, breaking the mould of the way rock stars looked and sounded.
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 Ian Dury - Rockabilly Central
Ian Dury, singer, songwriter and actor, was born on May 12, 1942.
Ian Dury was an Essex lad, born into a working-class family in Upminster during the Second World War.
Dury's scatological poetry and rhyming slang were a more knowing take on the anarchy of punk, with references far wider than teenage rebellion, and musically his hybrid sound was considerably more accomplished than the usual three-chord thrash.
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 BBC News | TALKING POINT | Your memories of Ian Dury
Ian Dury was one of the finest poets in the English language.
Ian and his merry bunch of pranksters were heads and tails above all the other UK post punk rock acts to bring their talents to those of us on the West Coast who were starving for something fresh and original.
Ian Dury was a real genius, a man I would have liked to have just listened to and admired, who you know would have treated you like a friend.
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 Ian Dury: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Dury was 28 at the time he formed Kilburn, and once they disbanded, conventional wisdom would have suggested that he was far too old to become a pop star, but conventional wisdom never played much of a role in Dury's career.
Ian Dury [+] had unexpectedly become a superstar in Britain, and American record companies were suddenly very interested in him.
Dury supported the acclaimed album, which saw him delving deeply into disco, with an extensive tour capped off by the release of the single "Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)," which climbed to number three.
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 Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: D: Dury, Ian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Dury's reasons to be cheerful - Veteran rock star Ian Dury, who is suffering from cancer, tells the BBC he has come to terms with death - because he knows the money he has made from his career will look after his family.
Gold Badge honour for Dury - Veteran rocker Ian Dury is among the stars to be honoured at the annual Gold Badge awards of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - It is a rare treat to hear a master craftsman at work.
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 Ian Dury (1942-2000): a poet of the spoken word
Ian Dury and the Blockheads could rub shoulders with the Clash, the Buzzcocks and Elvis Costello far more comfortably than with Earth, Wind and Fire, the Average White Band, Chic and the Commodores.
Dury was funny when he wanted to be, but his lyrics also explored the darker side of life.
Dury still recorded the occasional album, alongside his other projects, and there are delights to be found on all of them.
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 BBC News | OBITUARIES | Ian Dury: diamond geezer, masterful songwriter
He was never much of a singer, but Ian Dury's songs were instantly memorable, combining streetwise Cockney humour with verbal cleverness and a tormented delivery.
The group became Ian Dury and The Blockheads and a string of hits followed, Dury often writing with his friend, Chas Jankel.
Ian Dury's songs were peopled with Cockney geezers and grotesques like Clever Trevor - "knock me down wiv a fevva" - and Billericay Dickie, which could have been a traditional music hall patter song reinvented for a punk generation.
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 BBC - London - Entertainment - Music - Reviews - Recommended rock reading, Liz Jaynes on a new book that asks us to ...
Ian Dury is perceived as that cheeky chappie from Upminster, the lyrical wordsmith behind classics such as 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'.
Ian chose to perpetuate the myth during the earlier part of his career because he rightly knew that the image of the working class lad was more appealing than that of a middle-class cousin.
Dury was no angel, but for all his faults he had many good points, which author Jim Drury does not neglect.
www.bbc.co.uk /london/entertainment/music/iandury_bookreview.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Ian Dury - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Ian Dury (May 12, 1942 – March 27, 2000) was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader.
Dury, who was born in Upminster, Essex, lived with the effects of polio, which he contracted at the age of seven — very likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend on Sea.
The chorus' refrain, "I'm spasticus, autisticus" was inspired by the response of the rebelling gladiators of Rome who (at least in the version of the story as portrayed in Kubrick's movie), all answered to the name of their leader, "I am Spartacus," to protect him.
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 TrouserPress.com :: Ian Dury
Stunted in growth, crippled by polio and unrepentantly Cockney, Ian Dury is one of rock's most memorable (and certainly lovable) figures.
Dury abandoned Stiff and scuttled the Blockheads, but reunited with Jankel for Lord Upminster, recorded in the Bahamas with reggae rhythm kingpins Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar.
Dury's humanism comes through loud and clear, and the record is programmed swell.
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 Ian Dury Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
LONDON (Reuters) - Ian Dury, the gravelly voiced British entertainer who mixed punk rock attitudes with a thick streak of humor in such songs as ``Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick,'' died of cancer Monday at age 57, his agent said.
Dury's style made him a seminal influence on pop music ranging from the ska sounds of Madness to the pop-punk of Blur.
At the age of seven, Ian Dury was stricken with polio.
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 Ian Dury -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The song's refrain, "I'm spasticus, autisticus" was inspired by the response of the rebelling gladiators of Rome who (at least in the version of the story as portrayed in Kubrick's movie), all answered to the name of their leader, "I am Spartacus," to protect him.
Dury was inspired to form Kilburn and the High Roads (a pun on an area of north London) in 1971 following the death of his hero Gene Vincent (with whom he may have identified because he also had a leg disability).
While Dury undertook the task with the seriousness it deserved, it was difficult for viewers not to find some irony in the pairing of a man whose surname was often subject to the playground pun "Ian Durex" with a radio DJ called Janice Long.
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 BP Fallon | Ian Dury
Two and a half years ago Ian Dury was operated on for cancer of the colon.
and the forthcoming Ian Dury And The Blockheads gigs in Dublin.
Ian is married to the sculptor Sophie Tilson.
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 Ian Dury and the Blockheads: All the Best, Mate: Live - PopMatters Music Review
One of the exceptions was Ian Dury whose punk-rough voice was backed by a band that could almost be mistaken for a jazz combo playing rock.
This live CD shows Ian Dury and the blockheads still at the top of their form, as if they'd never stopped performing together.
Sadly, Ian Dury died of multiple forms of cancer in March of this year, and thus we lost a true original of the British music scene.
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 Ian Dury
Ian Dury's solo debut album is one of those rare treasures, the unjustly forgotten New Wave classic that's a pleasure to re-discover and a sadness to contemplate in the view of its being so drastically underrated at present.
Take Ian's cockney idiolect, add up all the musical styles in his backlog, throw in a pinch of shock values and general offensiveness, and you got the formula - you don't even need to spice it up with a relevant social message.
The mild pub-rock atmosphere is crossed with a swooping orchestral arrangement and idiotic sounding Dury vocals as he keeps bragging about some of his personal relation experiences: "Till I met her, I thought I knew the answers/I thought a bit of treatment was all a body needs...".
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 Amazon.com: New Boots and Panties!!: Music: Ian Dury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Ian Dury was one of the most original performers of all time.
Crippled from polio as a child (Ian Dury - Injury, geddit?), Dury was an accomplished artist and friend of Pop Art guru Peter Blake (Beatles Sgt Pepper's sleeve), as well as being a long-time live pub-act under the name of `Kilburn And The High Roads'.
Ian Dury and his magnificent band never had a chance of bettering this.
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 Rock Ahead Book Review - Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Song By Song - Jim Drury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Firstly because I absolutely loved Ian Dury and The Blockheads but the second and more important reason is that Jim Drury has spoken to all the Blockheads and they each have their own tale to tell.
The rows and punch ups are also investigated and also just why Ian and the band went their separate ways during the eighties and early nineties.
Perhaps the most poignant part of the story is the way the band open up their hearts over the loss of original Blockhead drummer Charlie Charles and of course the loss of Ian Dury himself in March 2000.
www.themusicindex.com /rockahead/reviews/ian_dury_book.htm   (332 words)

  
 Ian Dury: reasons to live : Cancerbackup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Rock legend Ian Dury, who is using his own battle with cancer to help CancerBACUP, is famous for his witty hit song in the 1980s, 'Reasons to be Cheerful'.
Ian's experience convinced him that support and information should be widely available to everyone diagnosed with cancer.
After all he has been through, Ian Dury is strikingly free of bitterness.
www.cancerbackup.org.uk /News/Newsletter/Issue34/Cancernews/IanDuryreasonstolive   (696 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll: Best of Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Music: Ian Dury & the Blockheads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Ian Dury was one of those rarities - with acute vision of his culture and an ability to express it with humane humour.
Ian celebrated life, regardless of the infirmities it brings - even those that are not deserved.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads have always been one of my favourites, ever since I saw them at the Ilford Odeon in 1979.
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 Rolling Stone : The Blockheads Get Rhythm: Ian Dury
The Blockheads, Ian Dury's former backing band, celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary with two nights (October 8th and 9th) at Camden's Jazz Cafe in London.
Dury, the Blockheads' charismatic singer and lyric writer, died of cancer in 2000 at age fifty-seven.
Among those in attendance on the second night was Dury's son Baxter, who was the young boy on the cover of his father's band's 1977 signature debut album New Boots And Panties.
www.rollingstone.com /artists/iandury/articles/story/5933551/the_blockheads_get_rhythm   (350 words)

  
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