Flamboyant entertainer Ian Dury, backed by the Blockheads, takes to the stage, explaining to his audience how, as a child, he contracted polio from a swimming pool and attended a special needs school where he was bullied, particularly by orderly Hargreaves, a fact which shaped his tough and frequently iconoclastic approach to life, culminating in his controversial contribution to the Year of the Disabled.
From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads, playing seedy pubs with no dressing rooms Ian moves onto chart success with the Blockheads, collaborating with musician Chaz Jankel.
His private life is complicated as, separated from the tolerant Betty with whom he remains friends but refuses to divorce for many years, he lives with the much younger Denise along with his adored son Baxter, who will himself become a performer.
Ian dies in 2000, having packed an enormous amount of living into a comparatively short life.
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
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Billericay Dickie
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If I Was a Woman
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Blackmail Man
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Wake Up and Make Love with Me
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My Old Man
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Ian Dury:
écrivain
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What a Waste
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Sex & Drugs and Rock & Roll
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Sweet Gene Vincent
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Blockheads
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Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
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There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
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Plaistow Patricia
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This Is What We Find
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Friends
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Spasticus Autisticus
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Reasons to Be Cheerful Pt. 3
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Score from Spartacus (1960)
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Abdul Abulbul Amir
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William Percy French:
écrivain
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Avenging Hordes
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H.M. Farrar:
Interprète
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Speed Lover
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Colin Kiddy:
Interprète
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Step on the Gas
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Simon Stewart:
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Punked
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Simon Stewart:
Interprète
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Amaryllis Suite: Musette
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George Frideric Handel:
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Sinister Street No.1
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Robert Gill:
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Score from Spartacus
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Alex North:
Interprète
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