"other lead singers that acted as a tribute album to Ian Dury. Williams and Dury met while working for UNICEF and Williams adds an additional repetition of the song's title near his versions' close, Dury often did this live. The backing track to Sweet Gene Vincent (that is, an instrumental version) has recently been released on Edsel Records' 2-Disc re-issue of ""New Boots and Panties!!"". The bit before the first chorus is sung by Andy Serkis in the ending of the Ian Dury biography ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"". The song is also featured on the soundtrack of"
"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"" is a song and single by Ian Dury. It was originally released as a Stiff Records single with ""Razzle in My Pocket"" as the B-side, on 26 August 1977. The song was released under the name ""Ian Dury"" and three members of the Blockheads appear on the record – the song's co-writer and guitarist Chaz Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy on bass and drummer Charlie Charles. The song was written by Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel in Dury's flat in Oval Mansions, London (nicknamed ""Catshit mansions"" by Dury)"
"Ian Dury Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and before that of Kilburn and the High Roads. Dury was born at his parents' home at 43 Weald Rise, Harrow Weald, Middlesex (though he often pretended that he had been born in Upminster, Essex, which all but one of his obituaries in the UK national press stated as fact). His father, William"
"Jane's Addiction Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"" is a song and single by Ian Dury. It was originally released as a Stiff Records single with ""Razzle in My Pocket"" as the B-side, on 26 August 1977. The song was released under the name ""Ian Dury"" and three members of the Blockheads appear on the record – the song's co-writer and guitarist Chaz Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy on bass and drummer Charlie Charles. The song was written by Ian Dury and Chaz Jankel in Dury's flat in Oval Mansions, London (nicknamed ""Catshit mansions"""
"Baxter Dury Baxter Dury (born 18 December 1971) is an English indie musician, originally signed to Rough Trade Records. Baxter Dury is the son of Ian Dury and his wife Elizabeth ""Betty"" Rathmell. As a young boy he appeared on the front cover of Dury's album ""New Boots and Panties!!"" He left school at the age of fourteen. The Ian Dury biopic ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"", released on 8 January 2010, features Bill Milner as Baxter. In 2002 Dury had a 'Record of the Week' in ""NME"" with his ""Oscar Brown EP"". He has one son, Kosmo"
"In 2018, he portrayed the character of Baloo in his self-directed film, """". Serkis's film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed. He has received an Empire Award, and two Saturn Awards for his motion-capture acting. He earned a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film ""Longford"" (2006) and was nominated for a BAFTA for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"" (2010). Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with """" (2015),"
"""riotous coming-of-age tale"". The 2010 production was supported by the Blockheads, while Sir Peter Blake donated a limited edition print of the ""Reasons to be Cheerful"" artwork. Ian Dury Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and before that of Kilburn and the High Roads. Dury was born at his parents' home at 43 Weald Rise, Harrow Weald, Middlesex (though he often"
"that overlooked The Oval cricket ground. The pattern of work adopted by the pair involved Dury presenting Jankel with his hand-typed lyric sheets. According to Chaz in ""Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"" he would be repeatedly given the lyric for ""Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll"" but Jankel kept rejecting the song, only for it to be at the top of the pile again the next time, only to be rejected again. This went on until Dury sung the song's guitar riff to Jankel and sang the song's title in time with"
"Tim Curry Timothy James Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor and singer. He is best known for working in a diverse range of theatre, film, and television, most often portraying villainous characters. Curry rose to prominence with his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in ""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"" (1975), reprising the role he had originated in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of ""The Rocky Horror Show"". His other stage work includes various roles in the original West End production of ""Hair"", Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1980 Broadway production of ""Amadeus"", the Pirate"
"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (TV series) Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is an American comedy television series created by and starring Denis Leary. The series aired on FX for a total of 20 episodes from July 16, 2015, through September 1, 2016. In September 2015, the network renewed the show for a second season, which premiered on June 30, 2016. On September 9, 2016, following the end of the second season, FX canceled the show. 50-year-old Johnny Rock (Denis Leary) was once the lead singer of The Heathens, a rising rock band from the late"
"Made Mary Cry"" (performed by Ian and the Kilburns): Credits on 2005 and 2017 'demo versions' discs: Edsel Records re-released the album in 2004 as part of a series of 2-Disc Ian Dury re-issues. The album was first reissued for the American market where ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"" was added to its track-list. Its initial CD re-issue on the Demon record label included an interview with Ian Dury that was on a 12"" record packaged free with the original album. Since then all CD re-issues have added the bonus tracks ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"","
"member has contributed to such as The Clash's ""London Calling"", Roy Budd's ""Get Carter"" Soundtrack, Roger Daltrey's solo career, Nick Cave's ""Nocturama"" and Frankie Goes to Hollywood's ""Relax"" to name a few. The song was written by Dury and Jankel in Dury's flat in Oval Mansions, London (nicknamed ""Catshit mansions"" by Dury) that overlooked The Oval cricket-ground. Dury typically presented Jankel with his hand-typed lyric sheets. According to Chas in ""Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"", he would be repeatedly given the lyric for ""Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll"" but kept rejecting"
"the Ian Dury song ""Razzle In My Pocket"" (1977, the 'B' side to ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll""), a story of a boy trying to steal a copy of said magazine from a bookshop. The song also appears on the 1981 compilation LP ""Juke Box Dury"" (side 1, track 6). The name ""Razzle"" gains a fair bit of mainstream attention, having been mentioned on numerous British comedy programmes, including ""Meet Ricky Gervais"", ""Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere"", and in an episode of ""Absolutely Fabulous"" where it is implied that Patsy once posed for the magazine (albeit in"
"Ian Hendry Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film, television and stage actor. He was best known for his work on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of ""The Avengers"" and ""The Lotus Eaters"", as well as for his roles in films such as ""The Hill"" (1965), ""Repulsion"" (1965), ""Get Carter"" (1971), and ""Theatre of Blood"" (1973). Hendry was born in Ipswich, Suffolk on 13 January 1931. His father, James Hendry, was born in 1901 in Glasgow. James Hendry earned a degree in"
"of the singer's worsening health and was played at his very last concert at the London Palladium in February 2000. As of 2007, the Blockheads continue to use the song in their sets. Ian Dury was a fan of Gene Vincent since his early to mid teens and claims to have bought every single Vincent produced. In an interview reprinted in ""Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"", Dury says that he first heard of Vincent via Be-Bop-A-Lula's inclusion in film ""The Girl Can't Help It"" and admitted to being reduced to tears by the"
"""Do It Yourself""; the instrumentals for ""Quiet"", ""This Is What We Find"" and ""Uneasy Sunny Day Hotsy Totsy"" were all arranged by Blockheads members while they were still in their band Loving Awareness. ""Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"" and Demon's CD re-issues of the album mistakenly credit the album as being composed entirely by Dury and Chas Jankel; in fact this was the first time Dury involved all of the band in the writing process and barely half of the tracks were Dury/Jankel compositions. The recording session at Dury's house that also produced"
"Ian Buchanan Ian Buchanan (born 16 June 1957) is a Scottish television actor who has appeared on multiple American soap operas including ""Twin Peaks,"" ""General Hospital"", ""Port Charles"", ""The Bold and the Beautiful"", ""All My Children"", and ""Days of Our Lives"". After studying acting in New York at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and privately with Marcia Haufrecht, Buchanan's first major daytime role came in 1986, when he joined the cast of ""General Hospital"" in the role of Duke Lavery, whom he portrayed until 1989. After leaving the role of Lavery, Buchanan appeared in roles on prime-time series including ""It's"
"threatened to burn the studio down. When he wouldn't calm down, the police were called and after spitting at them and calling them 'homosexuals', Dury was arrested. ""Bus Driver's Prayer"" is almost always considered a 'return to form' for Dury as a lyricist, and is considered as such by both Dury biographies ""Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song by Song"" and ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: The Life of Ian Dury."" The most commonly quoted songs to illustrate this are ""Poor Joey"" and ""Poo-Poo in the Prawn"". Demon Records were unhappy with the final album and hardly promoted"
"co-starring Samantha Morton as Myra Hindley and Jim Broadbent as Lord Longford. In 2006, Serkis appeared in the role of Mr. Grin in the film rendition of Anthony Horowitz's ""Alex Rider"" novel ""Stormbreaker"". In 2006, he was in the film ""The Prestige"" as Mr. Alley, assistant to Nikola Tesla, and as the voice of Spike, one of the henchrats in the Aardman Animations film ""Flushed Away"". In 2006 Serkis appeared in Jim Threapleton's improvised feature film ""Extraordinary Rendition"", which premiered in 2007. In 2010, he played 1970s new wave singer Ian Dury in ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll""."
"23-year absence. On 12 November, it was revealed that Buchanan was playing a dual role. ""Duke Lavery"" was actually Cesar Faison in disguise, and Faison was holding the real Duke hostage at a clinic in Lucerne, Switzerland. On 5 July 2017, it was announced he would reprise his role as James Warwick on ""The Bold and the Beautiful"". Ian Buchanan Ian Buchanan (born 16 June 1957) is a Scottish television actor who has appeared on multiple American soap operas including ""Twin Peaks,"" ""General Hospital"", ""Port Charles"", ""The Bold and the Beautiful"", ""All My Children"", and ""Days of Our Lives"". After"
"London and were directed by Simon Curtis, who Dury had worked with previously in earlier stage work. The show only lasted 10 weeks before closing and reviews were not favourable nor were they for the Album of same name. The most common complaint about the show was Dury's script. Gallagher echoed this sentiment in ""Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"". The play was about Byline Brown, a journalist played by Dury himself investigating a corrupt minister Hugo Sinister. In the original Ian Dury & The Kilburns version of Apples, the stall owner’s name is"
"from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), and this happened to Ken Loach's film ""Sweet Sixteen"", because of an estimated twenty uses of ""cunt"". Still, the BBFC's guidelines at ""15"" state that ""very strong language may be permitted, depending on the manner in which it is used, who is using the language, its frequency within the work as a whole and any special contextual justification."" Also directed by Loach, ""My Name is Joe"" was given a 15 certificate despite more than one instance of the word. The 2010 Ian Dury biopic ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"" was"
"Roll & Chaos"", credited to Ian Dury and Stiff Stars. It features four drummers and four keyboard players, plus vocals by Wallis, Wreckless Eric, Edmunds, Lowe, and Dury, and by the end (at 5 minutes and 22 seconds) what sounds like every musician on the tour. Another live version can be found on the Ian Dury & the Blockheads live album ""Straight from the Desk"" (2001), though much of it is not the song but Ian Dury introducing the band and their respective solos, with only the first half of the song and a repetition of the title at the"
"commonly referred to in the media as an 'Essex lad'. The song, perhaps the best example of Dury's 'Englishness' and 'Essexness', was given its oompah, fairground like arrangement by an American, Steve Nugent. Ian Dury has stated on numerous occasions (as mentioned in both his biographies, ""Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"" and ""Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song"") that he saw Dickie as a pathetic figure. He would reflect this on-stage by breaking down, as if he were about to cry during the final part of the song, before returning to"
"although the production had yet to be commissioned. On 3 July 2009, the BBC announced that the prequel had been commissioned as a 90-minute comedy drama, titled ""Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Chips"", to be co-produced by the BBC and Sullivan's production company, Shazam Productions. Originally scheduled for August, filming began in October 2009 in London, lasting 19 days. Nicholas Lyndhurst, who played Rodney in ""Only Fools and Horses"", would play villain and art connoisseur Freddie Robdal in a reprise of his role in the ""Sleepless in Peckham"" photograph, Kellie Bright (""Bad Girls"", ""The Archers"") would play the ""glamorous"" Joan"
"Costello and the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric and Larry Wallis, was a great success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign. Under the management of Andrew King and Peter Jenner (the original managers of Pink Floyd) Ian Dury and the Blockheads quickly gained a reputation as one of the top live new wave music acts. Their first single, ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"", marked Dury's Stiff debut and although it was banned by the BBC it was named Single of the Week by ""NME"" on its release. It was soon followed by the album ""New"
"joint tour for Nick Lowe, Ian Dury, Wreckless Eric, Larry Wallis, and Elvis Costello, five of their biggest acts at the time, with the intention of having the bands alternating as the headlining act. Ian Dury and the newly formed Blockheads soon became the stars of the tour (it was surmised that Elvis Costello would be the main attraction, having had chart success) and the nightly encore became ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"". A version can be heard on the ""Live Stiffs Live"" (1978) compilation live LP released after the tour called ""Sex & Drugs & Rock &"
"Chaz Jankel Charles Jeremy Jankel (born 16 April 1952), better known as Chaz Jankel, is an English singer, songwriter, arranger, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. In a music career spanning more than 40 years, Jankel came to prominence in the late 1970s as the guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Ian Dury and the Blockheads. With Dury, Jankel co-wrote some of the band's best-known songs including ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"", ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" and ""Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3"". In addition to his work with the Blockheads, Jankel has had a solo"
"Boots and Panties!!"", which was eventually to achieve platinum status. (Although it has been claimed that Dury coined the phrase ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"", there is evidence that it was already in common use and a very similar phrase had been used by Australian band Daddy Cool for the title of their 1972 second album ""Sex, Dope & Rock'n'Roll: Teenage Heaven"".) The tune is based on part of Charlie Haden's bass solo on ""Ramblin'"" on Ornette Coleman's 1959 album ""Change of the Century"". Dury and the band built up a dedicated following in the UK and other"
"Matthew Modine Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as United States Marine Corps Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's ""Full Metal Jacket"". His other film roles include the title character in Alan Parker's ""Birdy"", the high school wrestler Louden Swain in ""Vision Quest"", Drake Goodman in ""Pacific Heights"" and Dr. Ralph Wyman in ""Short Cuts"". On television, Modine portrayed Dr. Martin Brenner in ""Stranger Things"", the oversexed Sullivan Groff on ""Weeds"", Dr. Don Francis in ""And the Band Played On"" and Ivan Turing in ""Proof"". Modine has"
"Dury biopic: ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"", ""Bridget Jones's Diary"", """", ""I Am Sam"" and ""Confetti"". Howe's pop and rock session work has included Paul McCartney, Ray Davies, Tom Jones, Gabrielle, Nick Cave, David Gilmour, Mick Jones, Damon Albarn, Lewis Taylor, Beth Gibbons, Alison Moyet, Sarah Brightman, Beth Rowley, Leon Ware, Sam Moore, Ben E King, Slits guitarist Viv Albertine and Miles Kane among others. In 2012 Howe toured the US, Canada and Europe with Bristol-based band, Get The Blessing, deputising for drummer Clive Deamer. Dylan Howe Dylan Lee Howe (born 4 August 1969 in England) is an"
"Oliver James (actor) Oliver James (born Oliver James Hudson; 1 June 1980) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. James made his acting debut in the made-for-television short film ""School's Out"" as Dean. He then appeared in an episode for the BBC television series ""The Afternoon Play"". In 2002, James was cast as the role of Ian Wallace in the teen romantic comedy ""What a Girl Wants"". The film was directed by Dennie Gordon and co-starred Amanda Bynes. The movie was released in 2003, to mixed critical reception, and a moderate box office with worldwide earnings of $50,732,139. In"
"and Drugs and Rock and Roll: The Life of Ian Dury"" Eric describes being invited round to Dury's flat that day, only to interrupt Dury and Jankel working on a new song. When Eric asked what the song was called, Dury replied that it was named ""Sweet Gene Vincent"". A week after the demos were finished the final album was recorded in the Workhouse Studio on the Old Kent Road. Dury's management company Blackhill – who would also manage the Clash – owned a 50 percent share in the studio (along with the group Manfred Mann), and put up the"