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Reasons to Be Cheerful – The Best of Ian Dury: Released: 26 September 2005; Label: Music Club Deluxe; Formats: 2xCD; 80 — — UK: Gold [11] Essex Boy: An Introduction to Ian Dury: Released: September 2006; Label: Music Club; Formats: CD — — — The Best of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: Released: 13 November 2007; Label: The Great American ...
Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads , the Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.
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Ian Dury and the Music Students. Ian Dury – vocals (credited by the pseudonym 'D. Poundcake' on "Peter the Painter") Michael McEvoy – bass, keyboards, synthesizers, brass arranger, lead guitar on "Tell Your Daddy" and "Take Me to the Cleaners", drums on "Tell Your Daddy" Merlin Rhys-Jones – guitar; Tag Lamche – drums, percussion on ...
The song has been described as a 'shopping-list song'. It is a simple list of a number of reasons to be cheerful. In that respect it is almost identical to an older Ian Dury track, "England's Glory", a song that he had refused to revive when asked the previous year. The list of reasons to be cheerful includes: Rock 'n' Roll singer Buddy Holly
The album came to be after Ian Dury's second wife Sophy found a list of songs under the title 'Ten More Turnips from the Tip' among her husband's papers. The list, described as 'almost like a will' by Blockheads keyboardist Mick Gallagher in Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song , included four tracks recorded at RAK Studios in October 1999 ...
Dury himself, however, maintained that the song was not a punk anthem and said he was trying to suggest that there was more to life than a 9-to-5 existence (such as in his track-by-track comments in the sleeve-notes of Repertoire Records' Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Best of Ian Dury & the Blockheads compilation). The verses themselves are at ...
Pages in category "Songs written by Ian Dury" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.