Ian Dury Musical artist

Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English rock and roll singer-songwriter, bandleader, artist, and actor who first rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and before that of Kilburn and the High Roads.

Personal facts

Ian Dury
Birth dateMay 12, 1942
Birth place
Harrow London , Middlesex
Date of deathMarch 27, 2000

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Musical artist

Career started1971
Career ended2000
associated musical artist
Kilburn and the High Roads
The Blockheads
BackgroundSolo singer
genre
New wave music
Punk rock
Pub rock (United Kingdom)
Rock and roll revival
instrument
Drum kit
Singing
record label
Stiff Records
Polydor Records
Dawn Records

Ian Dury on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/702720.stm
  2. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2372/1/displayFulltext.pdf
  3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/music/muze/index.pl?site=music&action=biography&artist_id=9107
  4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0093n4m
  5. http://www.iandury.co.uk
  6. http://www.rockabilly.net/articles/iandury4.shtml
  7. http://www.theblockheads.com/biog.php
  8. http://www.theblockheads.com/discog.php