Ian Dury
Ian Dury (born May 12, 1942 in Harrow , Middlesex , † March 27, 2000 in London ) was an English singer, songwriter and actor .
Life
Dury, who himself claimed in Upminster ( Essex to be born) was, since the age of seven because of a polio unable to walk. Up to the age of 16 he attended the “Chailey Heritage Craft School” up to the O-Level , and then studied art with Peter Blake at the Walthamstow College of Art . There he met Terry Day , who got him enthusiastic about music and with whom he founded a student jazz club .
After winning a scholarship, he was able to continue his studies at the Royal College of Art with Blake from 1964 . In 1967 he took part in a group exhibition, Fantasy and Figuration , with Pat Douthwaite, Herbert Kitchen and Stass Paraskos at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Since 1967 he has taught art at various colleges in southern England. He also worked as a graphic artist; he illustrated the UK edition of AB Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business; in the early 1970s he worked for The Sunday Times .
With his wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Rathmell, he had two children, Jemima and Baxter Dury .
Ian Dury died of colon cancer in 2000 at the age of 57 with his family .
Musical career
Dury began his musical career in 1970 with the band Kilburn and the High Roads , initially supported by Day and other musicians from the People Band , which received great recognition as a pub rock band from 1973 onwards . He only became known to a larger audience in the second half of the 1970s with the band "Ian Dury and the Blockheads". With this he had two big hits, both of which sold more than a million copies worldwide, namely Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick , a number one in the UK, and the rock classic Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll . Other top 10 hits were What a Waste (1978) and Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3) (1979).
The band also performed successfully in Germany (including in 1978 in the Rockpalast and on the open-air stage in Hamburg's Stadtpark ).
With his unmistakable Cockney accent, Ian Dury sang mostly self-written songs, some of which were gaudy (Take your elbow out of the soup, you're sitting on the chicken) , some tenderly (Wake up and make love with me) , some thoughtful ( My old man) , but were always full of puns. In Spasticus Autisticus he also joked about his own disability.
In the early 1980s, Ian Dury broke up the band, released records only occasionally and turned to acting. He played supporting roles, including in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover by Peter Greenaway , Pirates by Roman Polański , Judge Dredd by Danny Cannon (with Sylvester Stallone ) and a leading role in Burning Beds by Pia Frankenberg . He has also written musicals , of which Apple's was performed at London's Royal Court Theater , and in 1985 the theme song for the television series The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ , which he also sang himself. In 1999 he recorded together with Madness the song Drip Fed Fred for the Madness comeback album Wonderful .
In the 1990s, Dury was active as a UNICEF ambassador.
In 2010 his life with Andy Serkis in the leading role was filmed under the title Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll .
Discography
Albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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 US
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| 1977 | New Boots and Panties !! Stiff |
DE29 (7 weeks) DE |
- |
UK5  (89 weeks)UK |
US168 (5 weeks) US |
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| 1979 | Do It Yourself Stiff |
DE23 (5 weeks) DE |
- |
UK2  (19 weeks)UK |
US126 (6 weeks) US |
with The Blockheads
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| 1980 | Laughter Stiff |
- | - |
UK48  (3 weeks)UK |
US159 (4 weeks) US |
with The Blockheads
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| 1981 | Lord Upminster Polydor |
- | - |
UK53 (4 weeks) UK |
- | |
| 1984 | 4,000 Week's Holiday Polydor |
- | - |
UK54 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
with The Music Students
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| 1998 | Mr. Love Pants CNR Music / FM Records |
- | - |
UK57 (2 weeks) UK |
- | |
| 2002 | Ten More Turnips from the Tip Ronnie Harris Records |
- | - |
UK60 (1 week) UK |
- |
with The Blockheads
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More albums
- 1978: Wotabunch! ( Kilburn and the High Roads feat. Ian Dury)
- 1981: BBC Rock Hour # 215 (with The Blockheads)
- 1983: Upminster Kids (Kilburn and the High Roads feat. Ian Dury)
- 1989: Apples
- 1991: Warts 'n' Audience (Live: 22 December 1990) (with The Blockheads)
- 1992: The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories
- 1999: The Slippery Ballerina (with Moe Tucker , Wreckless Eric , Col. Bruce Hampton, Rick Richards, Bobby Byrd , Kevn Kinney, and Susan Cowsill)
- 2001: Straight from the Desk (Live) (with The Blockheads)
- 2012: Live at Rockpalast (with The Blockheads)
Compilations
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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US
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| 1999 | Reasons to Be Cheerful - The Very Best Of | - | - |
UK40 (4 weeks)UK |
- |
with The Blockheads
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| 2010 | Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - The Essential Collection | - | - |
UK51 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
with The Blockheads
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More compilations
- 1977: The Best Of (Kilburn and the High Roads feat. Ian Dury)
- 1978: Billy Bentley (Kilburn and the High Roads feat. Ian Dury)
- 1981: Jukebox Dury (with The Blockheads)
- 1982: Greatest Hits (with The Blockheads) (UK:silver)
- 1995: The Best of Ian Dury
- 1996: Reasons to Be Cheerful (with The Blockheads; 2 CDs)
- 2006: Essex Boy: An Introduction To
- 2007: Live (with The Blockheads)
- 2014: The Studio Albums Collection (9 CDs)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | [↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts |
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AT
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UK
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Dance
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| 1978 | What a waste! Do It Yourself |
- | - |
UK9 (12 weeks) UK |
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| Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Do It Yourself |
DE22 (10 weeks) DE |
AT12 (12 weeks) AT |
UK1 (15 weeks)UK |
Dance79 (6 weeks) Dance |
with The Blockheads
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| 1979 | Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3) Do It Yourself |
- | - |
UK3 (8 weeks)UK[Dance: ↑] |
with The Blockheads
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| 1980 | I Want to Be Straight Do It Yourself |
- | - |
UK22 (7 weeks) UK |
- |
with The Blockheads
|
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| Superman's Big Sister Laughter |
- | - |
UK51 (3 weeks) UK |
- |
with The Blockheads
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| 1981 | Spasticus (Autisticus) / Trust Is a Must Lord Upminster |
- | - | - |
Dance32 (12 weeks) Dance |
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| 1983 | Really Glad You Came 4,000 Weeks' Holiday |
- | - |
UK98 (1 week) UK |
- | ||
| 1985 | Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (Remixed by Paul Hardcastle) |
- | - |
UK55 (4 weeks) UK |
- |
with The Blockheads, Remix: Paul Hardcastle
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| Profoundly in Love with Pandora |
- | - |
UK45 (5 weeks) UK |
- | |||
| 1991 | Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick '91 (The Flying Remix) |
- | - |
UK73 (1 week) UK |
- |
with The Blockheads, Remix: Dean Thatcher, Jagz Kooner
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| 2000 | Drip Fed Fred |
- | - |
UK55 (2 weeks) UK |
- |
Madness feat. Ian Dury
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More singles
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Tribute albums
- 2001: Brand New Boots and Panties (East Central One, Ltd. - with Sinéad O'Connor , Robbie Williams , Paul McCartney and others)
Video albums
- 2003: Hold On to Your Structure - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon
- 2012: Live at Rockpalast 1978
literature
- Richard Balls: Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll: The Life of Ian Dury . Omnibus Press., London 2001, ISBN 0-7119-8644-4 .
swell
- ^ UEL History . Archived from the original on August 31, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Richard Balls Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll (2001) p. 65
- ^ ICA, Fantasy and Figuration, exhibition cat., London, 1967, Tate Archive (London) ref. LON-INS (SC)
- ↑ Richard Balls Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll (2001), p. 78, cf. also New brushes and palette
- ^ Ian Dury - a brief biography . iandury.com
- ↑ Biography of ID iandury.co.uk
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles Albums UK1 UK2 US1 US2
- ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
- ↑ a b c UK gold / platinum database
- ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .
Web links
- Official site (English)
- Ian Dury's sound carrier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ian Dury at Allmusic (English)
- Ian Dury at Discogs (English)
- Ian Dury & the Blockheads at Allmusic (English)
- Ian Dury & the Blockheads at Discogs (English)
- Ian Dury in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary In: The Guardian (English)
- Set list and cast Rockpalast 1978
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dury, Ian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English musician, songwriter and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harrow , Middlesex, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 2000 |
| Place of death | London |