Ian Dury

What is the fascination about making films that deal with the lives of musicians - especially musicians who die prematurely? Read More

Yes, you've probably guessed this is the movie version of Ian Dury's life - from being struck down with polio at the age of seven through to his lige as an artist and of course, as a musician on the pub rock and early punk scene of the 70s and into the 1980s with The Blockheads. Read More

'Tis the year of the rock doc, apparently, and if they weren't coming out looking so good I might be bothered by that. Read More

Music suffered an endless amount of blows this decade in terms of passings; it's painful to see how many great and influential people passed away. Read More

When Flowered Up formed on a Camden council estate in 1989, they didn't seem to have much of an agenda beyond "a few good gigs and some laughs", as their lead vocalist Liam Maher put it two years later. Read More

ANDY SERKIS has been turned into King Kong and Gollum for the big screen but his most nervous transformation was when he played punk superstar Ian Dury. Read More

It is testament to Ian Dury's lasting legacy that few passers-by will fail to get the reference, even though the song was never a hit and did not appear on the platinum-selling debut album that made the name of a short, disabled cockney who "couldn't sing to save his life". Read More

A TEENAGE actor has drawn on his own cerebral palsy to help play music star Ian Dury in a new film. Read More

In his hat, drooping moustache and white suit, one could easily place Luke Haines as a hash dealer you would perhaps encounter in a Benidorm fun-pub touting for business amongst British package holiday debutantes from the north, rather than the Englishman exiled to Buenos Aires he would prefer to have you believe. Read More

When British New Wavers Ian Dury and the Blockheads were scaling the charts in 1979 with Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) , the rock group Smokie bumped into Dury at an airport and thanked him for including their obscure band on his list. Read More