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Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Live at Hammersmith Odeon

Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979

FIRST OF ALL I’d like to say I’ve always felt ambivalent towards Ian Dury. His work has always been, like his persona, male-orientated without being specifically macho; sentimental without being really romantic.

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