Ian dury biography
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Ian Dury
British new wave singer (–)
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Dury performing at the Roundhouse, London, in | |
| Birth name | Ian Robins Dury |
| Born | ()12 May [1] Harrow, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 27 March () (aged&#;57) Hampstead, London, England |
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| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, actor |
| Years active | – |
| Labels | Dawn, Stiff, Polydor, Demon, Ronnie Harris |
| Formerly of | Kilburn and the High vägar, The Blockheads |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Rathmell &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Sophy Tilson &#; (m.&#;)&#; |
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Musical artist
Ian Robins Dury (12 May &#;&#; 27 March ) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads, the Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.
Early life and education
[edit]Ian Dury was born at 43 Weald Rise
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Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography
This is terribly boring to me with only a few sentences talking about anything else than that and with little information about his personal life at the time apart from referring to some letters Dury sends to an ex in America where he talks a bit intimately. There should have been in depth interviews with his closest ones starting with his children, here we only get a few sentences from the musicians he badly exploited.
I've given one star to this book mainly because of the despotic character Dury was, I understand the reasons for his character, but in this boo
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Seeing Ian Dury’s old band Kilburn & The High Roads was a turning point for me in the early s, steering my tastes for glam and pub rock towards the impending drama of punk. In the NME advertised for “hip ung gunslingers” to join its writing staff, and my hand-scrawled review of the Kilburns’ LP, Handsome, won me the job interview that kicked off my career. I never got to know Dury well, but I spoke to some people who did, for this WORD piece of February
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The chances were slender. The beauties were brief… Two lines from one of his greatest songs, Sweet Gene Vincent, seem to sum up Ian Dury. He changed a lot of people’s lives. He left his paw-prints all over our pop heritage. Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll? His phrase became a proverb. Reasons to be cheerful? He gave hard-pressed sub-editors a quick solution to the daily scramble for a headline. He was the unofficial Poet Laureate of Pop, the gods shout of music hall and a link to the language o