Ian Dury: How Not To Get Lumbered
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 13 December 1980
IT'S DARK and it's cold and it's raining: a wind with a grudge against warm flesh knifes through the clothing and the matted thing behind the glass door won't open up.
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