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Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Great heroes of London's 1980s post-punk scene, the marriage of Ian Dury's working class cockney poetry and The Blockheads' funky new wave rock created some of the era's classic albums and a string of unlikely pop hits. A polio sufferer who walked with a pronounced limp, Dury learned his trade with pub rockers Kilburn & The High Roads but, with fame eluding them, he signed to Stiff Records for debut solo album New Boots And Panties!! (1977). It became a cult hit and The Blockheads were initially recruited as a live band, before striking up an intense relationship with Dury that p...