Ian Dury
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Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 3 September 1981
"HAVEN'T YOU heard? I'm a Fifth Columnist for the Year Of Disabled People. They've bribed me massively." ...
Ian Dury: It's Fairly Whassname…
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 25 February 1978
"WHICH WOULD you rather see; Kenny Rogers or Randy Edelman?" ...
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Interview by Radio Pete, Rock's Backpages audio, 21 March 1978
Dury confesses he enjoys interviews; being on his first American visit and eating "cham clouder"; his fondness for Tom Waits; on being English; on first hearing Gene Vincent; on punk rock and the spirit of rebellion; buying second-hand clothes; finally making it in England; his previous life as a painter and art teacher, and art schools' influence on English rock; and the alleged perversity of his music.
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Do It Yourself (Stiff/Epic)
Review by Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 1 November 1979
IAN DURY'S new album — on which the sharp-tongued British satyr with the heart of you-know-what goes dancing with a vengeance — is something of ...
Audio transcript of interview by Radio Pete, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 21 March 1978
This is a transcript of Mark "Radio Pete" Bliesener's audio interview with Ian. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Special Feature by Ted Kessler, The Times, 21 May 2016
Rod Stewart's dad gave him football lessons; Chris Martin's joins him on tour; Shaun Ryder's broke his nose on stage; Leonard Cohen is funnier than ...
Ian Dury: New chips off the old Blockhead
Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 29 November 2009
He could be warm and witty... or cruel and obnoxious. But there was never any doubt he was a true artist. We recall the life ...
The Stiff Records Story Offers Lots Of Delights
Review by Jim Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 24 September 1992
THE ADVERTS, a glorious mess of a punk band with a great pop sensibility but possessing limited musical capabilities, spat out a catchy rocker called ...
Ian Dury: Eye-On Mashes the Swedes
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 30 June 1979
THE DOG and bone tinkles into action and an East End accent barks out from deepest Deutschland, "Garry, Kozmo 'ere, the Dury feature's on. Meet ...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 1 October 1981
Merit Badges Goes To Dianaland ...
Memoir by Paul Wellings, Louder Than War, June 2021
10. Terry Farley, Superstar House DJ Terry was my Editor at Boys Own fanzine. He was a country bumpkin from Royal Berkshire but he had ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Bataclan theatre, Paris
Live Review by Mary Harron, Sounds, 18 March 1978
Sex and Frogs and rock and roll ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: New Boots and Panties!! (Stiff STF 0002)
Review by Susin Shapiro, Rolling Stone, 18 May 1978
IAN DURY has fashioned New Boots and Panties!! out of the more vile and pernicious aspects of his social persona: he's the midnight rambler in ...
Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 18 August 1979
A spiv, a brat, a clown. No we're not talking about BARRY CAIN. That's Ian Dury's own description of himself. ...
Report and Interview by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 23 December 1978
BRIAN CASE goes on the road with Ian Dury and the Blockheads in Dublin. ...
Ian Dury: Lord Upminster/4000 Weeks Holiday
Sleeve notes by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, 2007
CONGRATULATIONS! You are now holding the least-loved work by one of the UK's best-loved artists. ...
Peter Jenner Journeys Through The Minefields Of The Rock World
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 9 January 1990
IN HIS 46 years, Peter Jenner has seen a lot of rock 'n' roll, and a lot of rock 'n' rollers, come and go. He's ...
Ian Dury: New Boots And Panties!! (Stiff)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 1 October 1977
WHAT WE have in New Boots And Panties!! is a long overdue solo album from one of Britain's most unique and uncompromising talents. ...
Bassists: Let's Stick Together
Overview by James Medd, The Word, February 2012
They are "the glue" that cements the music, the mysterious put-upon souls plying their crucial trade in a cloud of dry ice by the drum-riser. ...
Ian Dury & Wilko Johnson: The Odd Couple
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 4 September 1980
The Class of '73 holds a reunion. David Hepworth takes the roll call. ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 8 August 1979
ONE OF IAN Dury's most endearing mannerisms on stage is to extend the length of his microphone stand two feet above his head, accentuating his ...
Ian Dury is an Xmas Cake (Relax, it's a compliment)
Profile by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 8 February 1979
1979 is still only a few weeks old, and already the No. 1 singles slot has been occupied first by a buncha camp New Yorkers ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Dingwall's, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 March 1978
Down Dury Lane ...
Ian Dury: Too Much Noddy Business
Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 1 October 1983
WHERE HAS IAN DURY BEEN FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, AND WHY HAS HIS LONG-AWAITED NEW LP, 40,000 WEEKS HOLIDAY BEEN DELAYED UNTIL JANUARY? GAVIN ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 4 March 1978
Mighty Dury, due to be mightier ...
Chaz Jankel: Is There Life After Blockheadism?
Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 25 October 1980
When Chaz Jankel left The Blockheads last year, Kosmo Vinyl described him as "a brave lad who's going to come a cropper." But instead of ...
Interview by Bill Brewster, Faith, 2002
CHAZ JANKEL made his name as Ian Dury's collaborator and founder member of backing band, the Blockheads. As a solo artist, he's most well known ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 6 August 1979
Back to front for Dury's six ...
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Do It Yourself (Stiff SEEZ14)
Review by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 19 May 1979
Dury: the tra-la days are over ...
Ian Dury: Tales of sex & drugs & rock & roll
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 15 June 1978
IAN DURY, between sets at the Bottom Line, is lolling on a chair in the just-cleared club. "With, with, wiv, with," he says. "Not for ...
Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Billericay Dickie vs. Uncle Sam
Report and Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 15 April 1978
Two Cultures Collide: BRIAN CASE on IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS' U.S. tour ...
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 15 August 1992
THE TEE-SHIRT READS "Madstock"; the reality sporadically veers from such cheery celebration. Somewhere in the fun and the frolics, the grubbiness of moronicism smears the ...
Ian Dury: New Boots And Panties (Stiff SEEZ4)
Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 1 October 1977
Dury's Verdict ...
Live Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 8 October 1977
A stiff undertaking ...
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, The Face, April 1984
Ian Dury's verdict on the nation's art heritage ...
Echo & The Bunnymen, Ian Dury et al: Glastonbury CND Festival, Pilton, Somerset
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 29 June 1985
"JESUS WEPT," from St Mark's Gospel is, I'm assured, the shortest verse in The Bible. That his Divinity did so over this event when 40,000 people decamped ...
Ian Dury: New Boots And Panties/The Bus Driver's Prayer And Other Stories
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
Welcome double disc reissues for a solid gold masterpiece and a forgotten nugget ...
Danny Baker presents Ian Dury: A Turn For The Verse
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 August 1981
"There's a cock-eyed yellow poodle to the North of Gongapooch There's a little hot cross bun that's turning green, There's a double jointed wop-wop ...
Ian Dury: The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories (Demon Fiend)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, January 1993
"I TOOK a sudden notion/To go down to the ocean", Ian Dury imparts in 'Poo-Poo In The Prawn'. ...
Retrospective by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 3 January 2010
As a new film reminds us, he was a polio survivor from the suburbs and not much of a musician. ...
Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel: Teeth and Smiles
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, September 1981
IAN DURY is in prime form. He is just back from a short holiday in Greece and is, if not exactly bronzed, then distinctly off-white, ...
Ian Dury: The Royal Academy of Jackthelademy
Interview by Mike Stand, The Face, December 1980
THE ARTIST, cultivator of a thousand verbaceous boarders, sits on a plastic chair in this desert of a room. Cropped short his greying hair gives ...
Buried Treasure: Ian Dury and the Blockheads' Do It Yourself
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, unpublished, March 2003
HOW CAN A platinum-selling album that reached No. 2 in the UK charts be classed as "buried treasure"? Easily. Do It Yourself remains a well-kept ...
Interview by 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 ...
Interview by 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 ...
Ian Dury: Where Blockheads Dare…
Report by Danny Baker, ZigZag, January 1979
IN 1979 THE music press could well go the way of The Times. Rock'n'roll is all about crucial exhibitions of art, quiet spoken interviews with ...
Ian Dury: How Not To Get Lumbered
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 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 ...
Ian Dury: New Boots And Panties!!
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 8 October 1977
LET'S PLAY CLUEDO on this sleeve. What we deduce from this one Ian standing in front of a shop window full of ladies' bras ...
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 15 October 1977
"I WONDER WHAT would happen if I drank this? Might do me some good," Ian Dury says grimly. ...
The Stiff Tour: Stiffs Drugs And Rock 'N' Roll
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 November 1977
"SEX AND drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll...sex and drugs and rock and roll..." Hot damn, m'man, Leicester University is ...
Ian Dury And The Blockheads: Ludwigshafen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 June 1979
IMAGINE THE tattiest curtain material, maybe the type your gran's got covering an old sofa; a couple of awful patterns flung together to make a ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 June 1979
"Beetroot juice and prune juice help the regular of the bowels...""If somebody's looking at me with rapture all over their face I want to throw ...
Ian Dury: The Cuddly Cosy Comfort Of A Tame And Trusted Teddy
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 18 August 1979
Ian Dury And The Blockheads: Hammersmith Odeon, London ...
Ian Dury: Oi! Oi! Anchors Aweigh
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 November 1980
Ian Dury And The Blockheads: Hope & Anchor, London ...
Ian Dury: New Challenge For Esperanto
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978
JUST OUT of Holland, about ten miles from the Dutch/Belgian border, the coach pulls into the Flemish equivalent of a Motorway Chef. There's four hours ...
Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Laughter (Stiff)
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, January 1980
I'M IN the mood for superlative hyperbole (oh – and love). I may have caught some flak from the Arts Page faction when in a ...
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 27 May 1978
THE FIRST time I met Ian Dury nearly two years ago in Dingwalls when I was little more than just another wide-eyed and a ...
lan Dury: Hello Tosh, Got A New Career Strategy?
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, June 1991
"ME AND The Blockheads were gigging in Spain a few weeks ago, partly to see if we really did want to get together again. ...
Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Live at Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979
FIRST OF ALL Id like to say Ive always felt ambivalent towards Ian Dury. His work has always been, like his persona, male-orientated without being ...
Book Excerpt by Richard Balls, Omnibus Press, 2000
An extract from Sex & Drugs & RocknRoll: The Life of Ian Dury, by Richard Balls, first published by Omnibus Press in 2000. (300pp, currently ...
Ian Dury: Reasons to be Cheerful
Retrospective and Interview by Chris Welch, unpublished, Summer 1995
In the summer of 1995 Chris Welch visited Ian Dury at his Hampstead home on two afternoons to talk about the glory days of Kilburn ...
The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury 1942 — 2000
Obituary by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, June 2000
At the peak of his late '70s success, Ian Dury was one of this countrys most beloved entertainers. He kept busy in his post-stardom years ...
Ian Dury & The Blockheads, The Clash and Matumbi: A Concert for the People of Kampuchea
Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 5 January 1980
It could only be cold comfort to them, but this isnt the first time rock n roll has played a distant part in the lives ...
Obituary by Charlie Gillett, The Observer, 29 March 2000
THE FIRST TIME I saw Ian Dury was at the Tally Ho in Kentish Town in 1972, when he had just started to play in ...
see also Kilburn & The High Roads
see also Baxter Dury
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