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- Hard lines 2.
- The Queen and I
- Hard lines 3.
- Apples
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Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was a British 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 Ian Dury and the Blockheads and previously Kilburn and the High Roads.
Known for
- Ian Dury Sex Drugs Rock & Roll & Other Assorted Glimpses — Self2010
- Ian Dury: Rare and Unseen2010
- Ian Dury - The Promo Videos and Songs — himself2007
- Banned in the UK — Self2005
- Top of the Pops: 40th Anniversary 1964 - 2004 — Self (archive footage)2004
- Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Hold On To Your Structure - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon2003
- Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja — Self1999
- Ian Dury: On My Life! — Self1999
- Ian Dury and the Blockheads: Live at Luton — Self1999
- Middleton's Changeling1998
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Ian Dury (1942-2000) was an English singer, songwriter, and bandleader. Born on 12th May 1942, he is best known as founder and lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, though he began his musical career in pub-rock act Kilburn & the High Roads. He wrote many famous songs including "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", "What a Waste", and "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll". He died on 27th March 2000. At the age of seven, Dury contracted polio; very likely <a href="https://www.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London Borough of Harrow
- Place of death
- London
- Child
- Baxter Dury
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- pub rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Epic Records
- Official website
- www.iandury.co.uk
- Image
- Ian Dury 2.jpg
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- cause of death
- Colorectal cancer
- Commons category
- Ian Dury
- date of birth
- 1942-05-12
- date of death
- 2000-03-27
- medical condition
- poliomyelitis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- has works in the collection
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
- start of work period
- 1970-00-00
- end of work period
- 1992-01-01
- name in native language
- Ian Dury
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
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