Ian Dury: new chips off the old Blockhead

[oldironside]

In Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, the new Ian Dury biopic, there is a scene that faithfully records the first time Dury met his songwriting partner, Chaz Jankel. It is May 1976 and the singer has just hobbled off stage after a particularly ramshackle London pub gig with his band of bedraggled misfits, Kilburn & the High Roads. The young, clean-cut Jankel strolls into the dressing room, grinning widely, and introduces himself. "Do I know you?" asks Dury, fixing him with a malevolent stare. "No," replies Jankel, still grinning. "Well do us a favour then," barks Dury, "and fuck off!"

Kilburn's guitarist Ed Speight convinced Jankel to return to the dressing room. In doing so, Jankel changed the course of Ian Dury's music and his life.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/29/ian-dury-popandrock

And here's his finest song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-VeOakGGPQ