Adam Sweeting, Q, February 1987
MADNESS ALWAYS called him Uncle Ian, and there's still that avuncular earthiness about Ian Dury. "They always say, we are entertainers," he notes, "and I'll go for that. It's only the quality of the entertainment that really matters."
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