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Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography by Will Birch (view source)
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|date=January 2010
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Ian Dury was always one of the most individual, even contrary characters in the musical world. In a branch of showbiz where people often relied on good looks as a short cut to stardom, he was no oil painting. During the pub rock era, he and his group, the Blockheads, ploughed a lonely furrow which owed more to jazz-funk than rock'n'roll, and his songs extolled the virtues of characters from Billericay or Plaistow rather than those from Memphis or California. Alongside the young punk rock upstarts with whom he competed for inches in the rock press, he was comparatively middle-aged. As if that was not enough, in his own words childhood illness had left him a permanent 'raspberry ripple'.
Our thanks to Sidgwick & Jackson/Pan Macmillan for sending a copy to Bookbag.
For further reading on the subject, why not also try [[Roxy: The Band That Invented an Era by Michael Bracewell]], [[Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim]] or [[Black Vinyl, White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell]].
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