Ian Dury (1942-2000) was an English singer, songwriter, and bandleader.
… Read Full Bio ↴Ian Dury (1942-2000) was an English singer, songwriter, and bandleader.
Born on 12th May 1942, he is best known as founder and lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, though he began his musical career in pub-rock act Kilburn & the High Roads. He wrote many famous songs including "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", "What a Waste", and "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll". He died on 27th March 2000.
At the age of seven, Dury contracted polio; very likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend on Sea during the 1949 polio epidemic. After six weeks in a full plaster cast in Truro hospital, he was moved to Black Notley Hospital, Braintree, Essex, where he spent a year and a half before going to Chailey Heritage Craft School, East Sussex, in 1951. Chailey was a school and hospital for disabled children, and believed in toughening them up, contributing to the observant and determined person Dury became.
… Read Full Bio ↴Ian Dury (1942-2000) was an English singer, songwriter, and bandleader.
Born on 12th May 1942, he is best known as founder and lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, though he began his musical career in pub-rock act Kilburn & the High Roads. He wrote many famous songs including "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", "What a Waste", and "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll". He died on 27th March 2000.
At the age of seven, Dury contracted polio; very likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend on Sea during the 1949 polio epidemic. After six weeks in a full plaster cast in Truro hospital, he was moved to Black Notley Hospital, Braintree, Essex, where he spent a year and a half before going to Chailey Heritage Craft School, East Sussex, in 1951. Chailey was a school and hospital for disabled children, and believed in toughening them up, contributing to the observant and determined person Dury became.
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Ian Dury Lyrics
Billericay Dickie Good evening I'm from essex In case you couldn't tell My giv…
Blockheads You must have seen parties of Blockheads With blotched and l…
Clevor Trever Just 'cause I ain't never â??ad, no, Nothing worth having N…
Dance Of The Crackpots Oh, let's get up and let's get excited It's a public…
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick In the deserts of Sudan And the gardens of Japan From Milan…
I Want To Be Straight I'm Charley, you know I'm Norman pleased to meet you I'm Mic…
I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra I'm partial to your abracadabra I'm raptured by the joy of…
Inbetweenies In the mirror, when I'm debonair My reactions are my own…
Mischief Robbed R. Pearson's paper, Lauren spent his half Ricky love…
Plaistow Patricia Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks Aerosol, the b…
Profoundly in Love With Pandora My mother's heart and soul Have gone halfway up the pole My…
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Sex and drugs and rock and roll Is all my brain…
Sink My Boats I've got the feeling but I ain't got the skill And…
Superman's Big Sister Till I met her, I thought I knew the answers I…
Sweet Gene Vincent Blue Gene baby Skinny white sailor, The chances were slende…
This Is What We Find Oi, Reg, meat and two veg? He done him with a…
Waiting for Your Taxi [Chorus: Repeats] Waiting for your taxi Which taxi never com…
Wake Up And Make Love With Me I come awake With the gift for womankind You're still asleep…
What A Waste I could be the driver an articulated lorry I could be…