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Cargando... Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The Life of Ian Durypor Richard Balls
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Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself! The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music, and this acclaimed biography does not shrink from chronicling some his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author Richard Balls talked to over 50 of Dury's friends as well as Dury himself shortly before his death. Dury's extraordinary life was always a battle. As rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom until now. In this classic rock biography, the self styled diamond geezer stands revealed as a real diamond after all. This edition is updated to cover the release of the biopic "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll", and includes original interviews with Oscar-winning actor Andy Serkis who starred as Dury in the film. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I saw Kilburn And The High Roads back in 74-ish and they were good but weird. Then Ian Dury appeared an suddenly he was everywhere and there was someone singing in my language, both internal and external. Billericay Dickie has to be one of the finest pieces rhyme in the English Language to appear in the last couple of hundred years or more. And I ain't pulling yer plonker. This is Essex. This is how most of England really is and not the pretentious rubbish that the Guardian, Telegraph and LRB would like you to believe. I really think that just for moment we had our own Shakespeare there, for if WS was alive today he would be all over social media and reality TV. Instead he has been appropriated by the elite and disowned by the every people he was writing to. Anyway.....
It was somewhat of a revelation to read that Ian Dury came from landed gentry and not the apocryphal Upminster of myth and legend. There was no doubt that he was a nasty bastard at times but his pettiness just permeates this biography. I guess the lesson is to never read a biography of someone that you had on a pedestal.
Also a snapshot of the music scene at various times and the personalities within it. If you are interested give it a go. (