Without doubt the most underated British talent, everyone talks about Bowie, Elton John, lennon and McCartney etc etc, but Ian Dury is up there with them
He was an absolute genius. 💯 pure gold. Very smart man & so clever with his amazingly Cockney rhyming slang. I still miss him dearly but still always play his music. Yes indeed he was up there with the greats. ❤
A lovely poet. A real good bloke and I totally believe his horror story about being at a grammar school in the 70's. A few of my teachers were just violent thugs.
Casey Jones . I was surprised how old he actually was . Seven in 1948. He would be 71 next year, making him an authentic rocker and not a punk at all .
I also was at that Hammersmith odeon gig do it yourself tour 1979.l when with my brother phill and his mate Ian. Very good gig and a great night out nice one
Spent many school days singing to New Boots & Panties album.I still play Ian's songs now.What a top man.He just wrote fantastic songs about real life.....A supreme Talent
I remember seeing Ian and the blockheads at the lyceum in London. He fell over and a roadie picked him up. He just laughed if off and turned it into a rhym. Great man , great band, great memories.
Ian Dury very much under appreciated here in the States. I've loved him from the late 70s. What a character, and the world is a colder place without 'im.
1948 was it ARF ... Brilliant 😂😂 .. Ian dury pure genius .. Loved his music brilliant entertainer .. Feel honoured I got to see Ian and his blockheads perform at Hammersmith .. Sadly missed 🙏
Ian, I know you see this from beyond; so proud of your strength through your challenges. I sure love your music. I share with those that feel sorry for themselves for they need to hear your story. My daddy died in 1947 of polio, he was in an iron lung. So hearing you survived this journey is very touching to my soul. RIP I am a new Fan. They treated children so cruelly that were not what the public opinion was set at as Normal. What the shiiiite is normal anyway? Your music is magnificent.:-)
Every one with a physical problem should see this, he is humour and grace...and a wee bit of the naughtiness. I am a Canuck and I loved his stuff and him. Hit me Ian!!!!
I had the pleasure of getting on it with Ian after his Wellington New Zealand Concert. Early eighties and man what a GREAT concert, huge brass section and they blew us away with their sounds. RIP sir. He had tobacco mixed with his and we Kiwis cannot cop it that way,we have it straight pot naturally but Ian warmed to it and liked our Maori Wowie
I didn't know him, friend of mine played his music and I fell in love with him and Blockheads, just can't believe how amazing and smart their songs were, i regret i found out so late, he is a legend for me :)
i honestly didnt see the disability cos i was watching the bass player on rythm stick ... ian had a cane but adam ant had face paint ...who can tell honestly though i really never knew till later on and by that time i had found rush yes genesis and zappa so i couldnt see straight for a decade
Marvellously talented individual despite his physical struggles. I never appreciated him when he first appeared on Top.of the pops but came to appreciate him soon after. Greatly respect him now even more since my disability. RIP Ian Dury.
Thanx Ian dury a legend and a brilliant lad that in spite of his obvious physical probs he did something a hell of a lot just couldn't have done ! He was loved 4 being himself and achieved everything he's a miss but won't be 4got how can we ,his band cheers me up still his unique presence made the blockheads a stand out band ✌️👏👍😎❤️
im australian and i love how cockney ppl are so down to earth loved ian dury had the cassette jukebox jury in 82 used to flog it to death rip ian musical poetic cockney genius xox 😊❤💐🥀
I went to a special school, I had friends BUT I never really liked it as I felt I was put in a box, and came out with nothing NO exams nothing pointless in that way. At 35 years old I feel like I'm learning now that's y I like reading 📚. I think that's y society treats us disabled people the way they do and judge us coz we're all put in box's growing up
Ian Dury, lived his music since ”New boots and panties” also had the fortune to know Norman Watt-Roy after they did a gig with Wilko in north if sweden -87, remarkable bassist!
What a strange, delayed reaction for me. My uncle contracted polio as a boy in the 30s. Made himself walk again by the weird expedient of trying so hard and so violently that he forced a new band of muscle to grow from his upper thigh to his lower back and ribcage, a sideways hump that eventually made him fully ambulatory. By the time I knew him, in the 60s, he didn't even use a cane anymore. Very powerful, soft-spoken, strange dude. Fast forward to Ian Dury when he began infiltrating college radio in America's hinterland, which I massively enjoyed. But, until seeing this little clip all these years later, I never even knew that Ian, too, had been polio-ed. And there is just something so undeniably and very obviously similar to me now about Ian and old Uncle Ray. Absolutely amazing. Loose, strangely related strings over many decades suddenly, coincidentally tied together by a random U-Tube video 90 years later? Hah! Maybe all the terrible crap about this platform is actually worth it, if only for these rare epiphanies and accidental amusements. Even if we do have to contend with the idiot godling Algorithm and the millions of wacked-out loonies, perfectly gullible conspiracy theorists and very strident but equally dim naziboys who haunt and troll these comment fields. Sudden, tangential, unexpected insight bubbling up from a river of mostly raw sewage propelled by a tsunami of proud, rank stupidity. (!) It's great--it's ironic, it's bizarrely random...and that means that these very occasional gems that make it all worthwhile were completely unintentional and not the result of the hidden, benevolent Buddha genius of the McGoogle engineers. And so it always goes.
1948 was it Arfur?? Scargill on the spot! Ian's lyrical, musical, humourous songs will eventually be recognised for the true genius it was! The perfect platform for his talent were the unbelievable Blockheads!
I clicked this because I have Parkinsons and I love Ian Dury... then I found out the interviewer is called Parkinson and Dury has Polio. Mind blown. I always assumed he was just messed up from drugs or something when I saw his clips, pretty bad assumption.
bdbdbd; yes, I understand what you are saying . I saw him in the Wellington (NZ) town hall somewhere around 1980 , and at the time of show I had no idea he had the polio .I was like you, and I just thought he was a fuelled up beast . One of the best concert too, and I've been to some .
RIP Sir Michael Parkinson (March 28, 1935 - August 16, 2023), aged 88 And RIP Ian Dury (May 12, 1942 - March 27, 2000), aged 57 You both will be remembered as legends
I know this interview so well. I was such a massive Ian Dury fan as a kid that I recorded it onto audio cassette (we didn't have a video then) and played it over and over again.
Apart from the obvious disadvantage of Polio, he had quite a decent upbringing and a middle class background. He played up the "cheeky Cockney wideboy" image brilliantly. Of course , that will be taken as criticism and a lack of sympathy. I loved the bloke to bits actually.
Without doubt the most underated British talent, everyone talks about Bowie, Elton John, lennon and McCartney etc etc, but Ian Dury is up there with them
As great as he was, no, he isn't up there with them.
As much as I love a lot of his work, he has two, maybe three great albums and a lot of inessential ones
Quintessentially English, kinks, jam etc these are too
No he is/was not. He was clever, original and one could say brave as well but he comes nowhere close to any of the people you mention.
He was an absolute genius. 💯 pure gold. Very smart man & so clever with his amazingly Cockney rhyming slang. I still miss him dearly but still always play his music. Yes indeed he was up there with the greats. ❤
Ian Dury was a bloody marvel! Way ahead of his time... tough as nails... and a true words-smith.
We Don't get the like's of him any more, honest, funny, intelligent and enormously talented. Thankyou Mr D.
His son Baxter is really good
@@justythrasher he's more of a dandy prick , notorious cause of his father
We do, you just need to get into the present old man.
I never completely understood him until now I found out he was punched out by his headmaster. Now it all makes sense.
Man with Polio,,,
Remember not tooooo000000 to get vaccinated...
Who saw the Glass
Half Full
I met l lan dury he came to my disabled school several times in South London back in the 1970s what a great man he was one of the best. Nice one
A lovely poet. A real good bloke and I totally believe his horror story about being at a grammar school in the 70's. A few of my teachers were just violent thugs.
@@hopebgood grammar school (and private school) in the 60s
Charlton park?
What a charming bloke. You can feel how the whole room are hanging on to his every word.
Charming? You sound like you were aloud to have your own thought. Careful now.
Ian Dury, Dianna Dors and Arthur Scargill - what a line-up!!
Casey Jones . I was surprised how old he actually was . Seven in 1948. He would be 71 next year, making him an authentic rocker and not a punk at all .
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I saw Ian at Hammersmith in 1979 on the 'Do it yourself' tour, when I was 15. It was one of the best gigs I've ever been to, fantastic!
I also was at that Hammersmith odeon gig do it yourself tour 1979.l when with my brother phill and his mate Ian. Very good gig and a great night out nice one
Ian used his difficulty, rather than get depressed about it, he used it to his advantage. Ain't been any band like the blockheads before or since.
This guy is an inspiration. With the right mental attitude you can achieve. RIP legend.
You sound American. You go and achieve. You could, Stop using words like " Legend" Liar in the make.
A very talented man, very clever song writer. Still with us by way of his recordings.
yes! also still with us because we love him.
Spent many school days singing to New Boots & Panties album.I still play Ian's songs now.What a top man.He just wrote fantastic songs about real life.....A supreme Talent
I remember seeing Ian and the blockheads at the lyceum in London. He fell over and a roadie picked him up. He just laughed if off and turned it into a rhym. Great man , great band, great memories.
Funny that I saw him at the Lyceum but he was with Kilburn and the high roads ✌
Ian Dury very much under appreciated here in the States. I've loved him from the late 70s. What a character, and the world is a colder place without 'im.
This is why Michael Parkinson was a great interviewr because he let the celebrity talk
Absolutely, a rare quality. Nowadays its 5 minutes, plug what ever it is you are on for, talk utter bollocks and off.
Spot on demented nun.
Parkinson and Carson. Today they're all self important political puppets.
Its a low bar, but a fair point
I grew up in the 70's and loved Ian Dury. Totally unique talent. I didn't know until today that he had a disability.
Man was way ahead of the system. His lyrical talking talents were and are just amazing. Legend
Coolest guy in history. Rest in peace, genius!
You haven't met me yet😉
Yes well Saif Sir
1948 was it ARF ... Brilliant 😂😂 .. Ian dury pure genius .. Loved his music brilliant entertainer .. Feel honoured I got to see Ian and his blockheads perform at Hammersmith .. Sadly missed 🙏
'1948 was it Arf?' Loved this guy.
Ian, I know you see this from beyond; so proud of your strength through your challenges. I sure love your music. I share with those that feel sorry for themselves for they need to hear your story. My daddy died in 1947 of polio, he was in an iron lung. So hearing you survived this journey is very touching to my soul. RIP I am a new Fan. They treated children so cruelly that were not what the public opinion was set at as Normal. What the shiiiite is normal anyway? Your music is magnificent.:-)
A beautiful man in every way
Extraordinary dosnt begin to cover this gem 💎 ❤❤❤
I didn’t know he had this issue. I have only known and loved his music. Remarkable.
Same here. :)
Wow I never realized he was crippled. What an amazing talent & such an inspiration for overcoming his limitations! Absolute legend.
I think you're right Phoenix, that is often the case....
Great comment: Well written. I concur.
speak for yourself
top tune choon Mr Ian Dury th-cam.com/video/6isXNVdguI8/w-d-xo.html
The way he held himself on stage, it wasn't easy to see it. His performances were so good it was hard to tell.
Love this man. very talented!
So much respect for him coming out without even a cane. True inspiration and an icon.
as someone that uses one it makes me sad….shouldn’t have to go through unnecessary pain and effort for the approval and comfort of the abled
New Boots and Panties
One of my all time favourite albums
He stil hits me with his music!! Wonderful man!
Fantastic, please never delete this!
wish their was a Dury museum
A truly Remarkable Man, one of a Kind!
Every one with a physical problem should see this, he is humour and grace...and a wee bit of the naughtiness. I am a Canuck and I loved his stuff and him. Hit me Ian!!!!
This is fucking unbelievable. Great interview and Ian Dury is so charming and honest and open.
Just stumbled on this vid - glad I did! Ian Dury was a genius and a truly good human. And the sense of humour!
I had the pleasure of getting on it with Ian after his Wellington New Zealand Concert. Early eighties and man what a GREAT concert, huge brass section and they blew us away with their sounds. RIP sir. He had tobacco mixed with his and we Kiwis cannot cop it that way,we have it straight pot naturally but Ian warmed to it and liked our Maori Wowie
Brilliant
I didn't know him, friend of mine played his music and I fell in love with him and Blockheads, just can't believe how amazing and smart their songs were, i regret i found out so late, he is a legend for me :)
Yeah that's what happened to me in 77 I was 13 my mate played New boots n pantys for me and I was hooked,RIP Ian X)
I meat 1977
RIP Ian you were one of a kind.
I just loved his concerts .
Always a lot of fun.
Miss him so much.
I love Ian ... I was born 1978 but I loved his music still do , top man
Yes.. how is ur tennis
am i the only one who only sees talent rather than disability? great guy RIP
Nice bit of inverse virtue signalling there. Well done!
Yeah, Phil. You are the only one. Bless your heart and be well. xxxooo
Yes Phil just you.
Great songs from when I was a teenager in '79. I had no idea he had polio until I found out tonight. Great to hear about his schooling.
i honestly didnt see the disability cos i was watching the bass player on rythm stick ... ian had a cane but adam ant had face paint ...who can tell
honestly though i really never knew till later on and by that time i had found rush yes genesis and zappa so i couldnt see straight for a decade
Just a charming, incredibly engaging guy. I could listen to him talk for hours. Love the cockney accent.
A very funny intelligent talented wordsmith no one like this now he was a one off true legend miss U Ian RIP
I seen Ian's concert in Preston & He was Fantabulous! I will never forget Him, Big Love To You in Heaven🌈🌅🌌🙏
You cannot deny the man's uniqueness or determination. His hard start made him the man he became. A total one-off.
Top lad, an inspiration to us all.
One of the best of British.
My band played alongside Ian Dury in 1996
Marvellously talented individual despite his physical struggles. I never appreciated him when he first appeared on Top.of the pops but came to appreciate him soon after. Greatly respect him now even more since my disability. RIP Ian Dury.
What a talent, thank you Ian for being such an inspiration!
He's beautiful has a tangible vulnerability that draws people in. He has a fantastic presence. RIP Ian.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
love it
Ian was great.
Lucky bleeders
Genius lyricist, and talented conveyor of a song. R.I.P. Ian.
legend, inspiration, talent, geezer, love him..............
Thanks for posting this... He was a beautiful person and an inspiration to use all !!!
What a fantastic guy ! Brave and honest ❤️🙏❤️
☘️🚬🥂🖤
Right... Brave and talented
Thanx Ian dury a legend and a brilliant lad that in spite of his obvious physical probs he did something a hell of a lot just couldn't have done ! He was loved 4 being himself and achieved everything he's a miss but won't be 4got how can we ,his band cheers me up still his unique presence made the blockheads a stand out band ✌️👏👍😎❤️
im australian and i love how cockney ppl are so down to earth loved ian dury had the cassette jukebox jury in 82 used to flog it to death rip ian musical poetic cockney genius xox 😊❤💐🥀
Charismatic and supremely talented. What a LEGEND he was 👌
Good man Ian Dury . His songs spoke to you .
great artist love his music & lyrics! R.i.p.!
Thanks so much for posting this, I had no idea that Ian had been on Parkinson... what a great interview!
Good to see. Love his songs.
I went to a special school, I had friends BUT I never really liked it as I felt I was put in a box, and came out with nothing NO exams nothing pointless in that way. At 35 years old I feel like I'm learning now that's y I like reading 📚. I think that's y society treats us disabled people the way they do and judge us coz we're all put in box's growing up
i loved and still listen to his music. Thank you Ian up in the sky
Did not know this about Ian really good music !
Ian Dury, lived his music since ”New boots and panties” also had the fortune to know Norman Watt-Roy after they did a gig with Wilko in north if sweden -87, remarkable bassist!
Brilliant. Thanks for uploading this.
nice to hear a beautiful true London accent
His role in the Cook the thief his wife and her lover was totally underrated
Wonderful!! So Wonderful!!! Thank you! So Sweet!!
What a strange, delayed reaction for me. My uncle contracted polio as a boy in the 30s. Made himself walk again by the weird expedient of trying so hard and so violently that he forced a new band of muscle to grow from his upper thigh to his lower back and ribcage, a sideways hump that eventually made him fully ambulatory. By the time I knew him, in the 60s, he didn't even use a cane anymore. Very powerful, soft-spoken, strange dude.
Fast forward to Ian Dury when he began infiltrating college radio in America's hinterland, which I massively enjoyed. But, until seeing this little clip all these years later, I never even knew that Ian, too, had been polio-ed. And there is just something so undeniably and very obviously similar to me now about Ian and old Uncle Ray. Absolutely amazing.
Loose, strangely related strings over many decades suddenly, coincidentally tied together by a random U-Tube video 90 years later? Hah! Maybe all the terrible crap about this platform is actually worth it, if only for these rare epiphanies and accidental amusements. Even if we do have to contend with the idiot godling Algorithm and the millions of wacked-out loonies, perfectly gullible conspiracy theorists and very strident but equally dim naziboys who haunt and troll these comment fields.
Sudden, tangential, unexpected insight bubbling up from a river of mostly raw sewage propelled by a tsunami of proud, rank stupidity. (!) It's great--it's ironic, it's bizarrely random...and that means that these very occasional gems that make it all worthwhile were completely unintentional and not the result of the hidden, benevolent Buddha genius of the McGoogle engineers. And so it always goes.
You lost is at the end there
Whatever happened to genuine people and performers like this guy? Truly missed.
Ian was one of the most intelligent people that has ever been in the music business. Rest in peace.
a fkn great guy---n some song n music writer---thanks uploader
I so love this man. One in a billion
Channelled into a fantastic voice 👌
Love his voice!
Thank you for putting this up .
1948 was it Arfur?? Scargill on the spot! Ian's lyrical, musical, humourous songs will eventually be recognised for the true genius it was! The perfect platform for his talent were the unbelievable Blockheads!
I clicked this because I have Parkinsons and I love Ian Dury... then I found out the interviewer is called Parkinson and Dury has Polio. Mind blown.
I always assumed he was just messed up from drugs or something when I saw his clips, pretty bad assumption.
Yep "never judge a book by its cover".....
bdbdbd; yes, I understand what you are saying . I saw him in the Wellington (NZ) town hall somewhere around 1980 , and at the time of show I had no idea he had the polio .I was like you, and I just thought he was a fuelled up beast . One of the best concert too, and I've been to some .
Um..🙋similar
But he often WAS messed up on drugs. Speed especially. He liked his speed. Just ask Wilco.
Never too late to put things straight and recognise mis-judgments are so easy to make ! That's adulthood wiseness for.
Absolute genius rest in peace maestro
The real originator of Rap. Nobody dealt it like Ian Dury, long before the black community hijacked it.
Never heard of the reggae toasters then SJ?
@@billpugh58 What, you never heard of Ian Dury?
Love his songs , unique !
Ian Dury doing what he does best... keeping it real.
A Gem. Don't make em like Ian Dury no more.....
Amazing guy, never knew his story. God Bless him.
What a soldier. Much respect to Mr Dury!
Did anybody ever get Ian he was proud . I get him ever day . He's legend . Not easy him but he showed them all
RIP Sir Michael Parkinson (March 28, 1935 - August 16, 2023), aged 88
And
RIP Ian Dury (May 12, 1942 - March 27, 2000), aged 57
You both will be remembered as legends
My Pa also had polio down the left side, and the things he could still do, and always worked too.
Parky, Diana Dors and Arthur Scargill, all "giants" in their fields. All three of them should have stood up and saluted this genuine GIANT.
'A seasoned up hyena could not have been more obscener'. Impossible not to love someone who could write that.
She took me to the cleaner’s
And other misdemeanours
Til I got right up between er
Rum and er Ribena...
I know this interview so well. I was such a massive Ian Dury fan as a kid that I recorded it onto audio cassette (we didn't have a video then) and played it over and over again.
so wonderful!
Omg,tell me he doesn't look like Ray Liotta on this cover,holy shit.they say everybody has a double, Ray is his and vise versa. Incredible!
I come from a family of 5 boys. The one who caught polio is the most successful of us all.
Madness thought a lot of you too Mr Dury. R.I.P.
Inspiration and genius was Ian Dury ❤️
saw him in Bath in about 1976 brilliant
+Kevin Gordon Oh yeah? How's 'e look in the bath? =P
Aww you left good memories rip Ian love your music clever
I think Parky was digging for tales of sadness. Ian kept it positive
A brilliant man. Will Birch's biography of him is well worth a read !
Writer, actor, musician and great character, not bad from such a dreadful start. I really miss Ian, but then again I would venture we all do
Apart from the obvious disadvantage of Polio, he had quite a decent upbringing and a middle class background. He played up the "cheeky Cockney wideboy" image brilliantly. Of course , that will be taken as criticism and a lack of sympathy. I loved the bloke to bits actually.