Great heroes of London's 1980s post-punk scene, the marriage of Ian Dury's
working class cockney poetry and The Blockheads' funky new wave rock created
some of the era's classic albums and a string of unlikely pop hits. A polio
sufferer who walked with a pronounced limp, Dury learned his trade with pub
rockers Kilburn & The High Roads but, with fame eluding them, he signed to Stiff
Records for debut solo album New Boots And Panties!! (1977). It became a cult
hit and The Blockheads were initially recruited as a live band, before striking
up an intense relationship with Dury that p...