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Ian Dury

June 2024

  • Charlie Sinclair

    Other lives
    Charlie Sinclair obituary

    Other lives: Musician who played in many London venues and with a variety of bands

January 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    Brief letters
    Labour can be green, spendy and cheerful

    Brief letters: Starmer, Galbraith and Dury | The Open University | Bookshelf arrangements | Tax us our fair share

May 2023

  • Shobna and Ashkay Gulati<br>Flashback: Baxter Dury. Now pic: Pål Hansen. Styling: Andie Redman

    Flashback
    Baxter Dury on making the cover of Ian Dury’s New Boots and Panties!!: ‘I walked into the shot and said, “Can we go now?”’

  • Chaz Jankel pictured in 1980

    ‘Ian Dury was a voice for the disenfranchised’: Chaz Jankel, the man who made the Blockheads funky

January 2023

  • Brian Tufano in the 1990s, the decade in which he came into his own in cinematic work.

    Brian Tufano obituary

    Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

December 2022

  • Jane Horrocks on Brighton beach.

    ‘I don’t like to dwell on the dark side’: Jane Horrocks on life on her own, family and first love, Ian Dury

    The actor remembered her time with the maverick singer as toxic. But finding his love letters made her see things differently – and propelled her to make a drama of their time together

July 2022

  • Mickey Jupp at the Boot Inn in Cumbria.

    ‘I don’t want my career resurrected!’ The last orders of pub rock pioneer Mickey Jupp

  • Fred Cuming enjoyed painting scenes of wet weather.

    Fred Cuming obituary

August 2021

  • Ian Dury, left, with his 6ft 7in minder, the ‘Sulphate Strangler’.

    Observer book of the week
    Chaise Longue by Baxter Dury review – teenage kicks with the Blockheads

    This unflinching memoir by the son of Ian Dury recalls his chaotic life with the ‘pot-soaked Fagin’ and his bodyguard

July 2021

  • Baxter Dury: ‘They were really smart my parents, on both sides.’

    Books interview
    Baxter Dury: ‘Everything was about Dad. It was the only way he knew how to survive’

    The musician talks about growing up with a pop star dad, escaping his shadow – and the 6ft 7in drug dealer who lived with them

June 2020

  • Number 1 hits, Number 1, From left; The Beatles, Donna Summer, the Per Shop Boys

    The 100 greatest UK No 1 singles
    The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-1

    Look back on our complete countdown of the greatest UK No 1s, from the Beatles to Baby D, and So Solid Crew to Suzi Quatro

May 2020

  • ‘A mischievous celebration of (ahem) physical activity’ ... Ian Dury and the Blockheads in 1979.

    The 100 greatest UK No 1 singles
    The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 18, Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

    The band’s signature hit throws in funk and disco to create an oddly disorienting, almost stoned groove

February 2019

  • Olivia Newton-John

    Ranked
    The greatest banned songs of all time – ranked!

    Thirty years on from 2 Live Crew being banned by the Beeb, we pick 20 foul-mouthed, orgiastic outings deemed too scandalous for public consumption

February 2018

  • The playwright David Edgar

    Brief letters
    Emeritus professors going off at a tangent

    Brief letters: David Edgar as Toad of Toad Hall | Time-loop tales | The Blockheads | Professorial absence | Remembering trigonometry

January 2018

  • Morrisey, Ramz, Ian Dury composite

    From Bow to Barking: the songs that champion unglamorous London

    London rapper Ramz’s single Barking has risen to No 2 in the Top 40, joining a historic seam of songs hymning the capital’s squalid tower blocks and sleepy suburbs

October 2017

  • Baxter Dury

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Baxter Dury: Prince of Tears review – making a success of the family business

  • Ian Dury, February 1978. used 25 Feb 1978 GNM Archive ref: OBS/6/9/2/6/D box 9

    From the Guardian archive
    New punk for old: Ian Dury's debut album reviewed - archive 1977

June 2017

  • Appalling and delightful … Tony Hancock based his character in The Rebel on Walthamstow tutor William Green.

    Please keep the flames to six feet! The wild and wonderful world of Walthamstow art school

    In the early 1960s, the old guard running Walthamstow art school quit – and a riotous new spirit took hold, galvanising students from Ian Dury to Peter Blake. Now a new show, Be Magnificent, is celebrating the glory days

February 2016

  • The Cramps - Poison Ivy Rorschach & Lux Interior

    Gas masks, guns and Misfits: the punk photography of David Arnoff

    David Arnoff documented some of punk’s biggest players as the style mutated beyond its mid-70s origins, from Patti Smith to Ian Dury and Nick Cave. He tells the stories behind the shots

November 2015

  • The Velvet Underground And Nico

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