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Dury fronting the band at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, 1978. In 1974, Radio Caroline's Ronan O'Rahilly set up the pop group The Loving Awareness Band, comprising John Turnbull (guitar) and Mick Gallagher (keyboards), both formerly of 1960s psychedelic rock band Skip Bifferty, with the session musicians Norman Watt-Roy (bass) and Charley Charles (born Hugh Glenn Mortimer Charles, Guyana ...
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads, The Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.
The Blockheads discography. Formed in 1977 to promote Ian Durys' album New Boots and Panties!! on the first Stiff Records tour of the UK, Chaz Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy, Charlie Charles, John Turnbull and Mick Gallagher became known as 'The Blockheads' (a reference to a song on Dury's album). As 'Ian Dury & The Blockheads' they went back out on ...
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. [3] The song was released under the single name "Ian Dury", but three members of the Blockheads appear on the record – the song's co ...
Released: 2002. Ten More Turnips from the Tip is the fourth and final studio album by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, and Dury's ninth overall. It was compiled and released in 2002, two years after Dury's death in March 2000.
"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (with the Blockheads) 1 2 14 22 3 9 7 3 9 79 Non-album single "Inbetweenies" (with the Blockheads; Continental Europe-only release) 1979 — — — — — — — — — — Do It Yourself "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3" (with the Blockheads) 3 65 — — 20 27 — — 24 — Non-album singles "I Want to Be ...
What a Waste. " What a Waste " is a song and single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, originally released in 1978 on the Stiff Records single BUY 27 "What a Waste" / "Wake Up and Make Love with Me". The song has remained in The Blockheads' set following Dury's death. Essentially a song about being in a job that makes you happy, Dury claimed in a ...
Chaz Jankel. Charles Jeremy " Chaz " Jankel (born 16 April 1952) [3][4][5] is an English musician and songwriter. In a music career spanning more than 40 years, he 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 ...