Ian Dury
Terry Staunton, Uncut, August 1998
Sweet Gene Vincent, sozzled Max Wall, sexy Marilyn Monroe, and the stiff upper lips of Dickie Attenborough and Johnny Mills are among Blockhead IAN DURY's reasons to be cheerful
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