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Upminster, Essex, United Kingdom (1977 – 1981)
Ian Dury and the Blockheads were one of the most popular groups of the New Wave era in the UK in the late 1970s. Their eclectic sound was drawn from their many musical influences which included jazz, rock and roll, funk and reggae, not to mention leader Ian Dury’s love of music hall. Dury’s lyrics were a unique combination of lyrical poetry, word play, acute observation of British everyday life and scatalogical humour. As The Blockheads, the band continued to play after Dury’s untimely death in 2000.
The band started when Dury (born Upminster, Essex, United Kingdom 12 May 1942, died 27 March 2000), had a chance encounter in a musical instrument hire shop with guitarist Chaz Jankel. Jankel took Dury’s lyrics, fashioned a number of songs, and they began recording with drummer Charley Charles, bassist Norman Watt-Roy and the former Kilburns saxophonist Davey Payne. An album was completed, but major record labels passed on the band. However, next door to Dury’s manager’s office was the newly formed Stiff Records, a perfect home for Dury’s maverick style. The classic single Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, marked Dury’s Stiff debut and this was swiftly followed by the album New Boots and Panties, which was to eventually achieve platinum status.
It wasn’t until October 1977 that Dury and his band started to go out as Ian Dury and the Blockheads, when the band signed up for the Stiff “Live Stiffs Tour” alongside Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric and Larry Wallis.
The band started when Dury (born Upminster, Essex, United Kingdom 12 May 1942, died 27 March 2000), had a chance encounter in a musical instrument hire shop with guitarist Chaz Jankel. Jankel took Dury’s lyrics, fashioned a number of songs, and they began recording with drummer Charley Charles, bassist Norman Watt-Roy and the former Kilburns saxophonist Davey Payne. An album was completed, but major record labels passed on the band. However, next door to Dury’s manager’s office was the newly formed Stiff Records, a perfect home for Dury’s maverick style. The classic single Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, marked Dury’s Stiff debut and this was swiftly followed by the album New Boots and Panties, which was to eventually achieve platinum status.
It wasn’t until October 1977 that Dury and his band started to go out as Ian Dury and the Blockheads, when the band signed up for the Stiff “Live Stiffs Tour” alongside Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric and Larry Wallis.
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Pseudovolhv wrote:
Оптимистичная меланхолия.
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CitizenShredder wrote:
Brilliant stuff. Ian was such a legend!
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IanCat87 wrote:
The jackpot is in the handle of a normal fruit machine.
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adipati_was wrote:
“ I could be a lawyer with strategems and ruses I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises I could be a writer with a growing reputation I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station” Blockhead ♥ Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000)
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gybrush_ wrote:
hit me, hit me, hit...meeee!
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Buffalo_JFK wrote:
I want a "Reasons to be cheerfull part 4"
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FPurich wrote:
Can someone tell me how I can get the song "we want the gold"
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kick_yr_crutch wrote:
What a waste :) there's a part in that song that reminds me of the soundtrack to that old kids program that was about school, forget its name
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kanto_sho wrote:
Almost 50% of the material from New Boots And Panties!! comes under Do It Yourself although the bonus version only cover live versions of the songs, frustrating that is.
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kanto_sho wrote:
About tags Grosseteste is right. Anyway Last fm should make sure that everything falls under the same artist, whatever they choose
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mihaiamza wrote:
not in the gay way !
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mihaiamza wrote:
Ian was such a genius, legendary singer !! fucking love him !!
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MisterMackaye wrote:
awesome people awesome band, greatly track... Wake Up and Make Love With Me!!
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AshlenaAres wrote:
I'm Billericay Dickie, and Im doing very well! I wish that was my name. What happens next is private, its also very rude :O ♥Ian dury and blockheads♥
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Grosseteste wrote:
Every one of their albums that I have clearly states: "Ian Dury & The Blockheads" (except for "New Boots and Panties", which is credited to Ian Dury. Why, then, has Last.fm made this incorrect version of the name the main one? As in so many cases, the real listening figures are disguised because the scrobbles are split between various versions of the name.
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martinbizarro wrote:
Brilliant film. "We don't want sympathy - we want RESPECT!"
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rothkochapel wrote:
waitin' for your taxi, waitin' for your car
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KinksKate wrote:
hi there if you like these have a listen to This Is Seb Clarke they are a really good Northern Soul/Punk 12 piece band xx
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kekekekekek wrote:
i love his voice he sounds like the guy in mary poppins hahaha
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privatehell wrote:
Saw the film the other day, great stuff, highly recommend!
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