Ian Dury
UK
Born: 12 May 1942
Died: 27 March 2000
Years Active: 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock, R&B, Electronic
Styles: Disco, Dance, R&B/Soul, Punk/New Wave, New Wave, Pub Rock, Rock & Roll/Roots, British Punk, Punk
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Rock & roll has always been populated by fringe figures, cult artists who managed to develop a fanatical following because of their outsized quirks, but few cult rockers have ever been quite as weird, or beloved, as Ian Dury. As the leader of the underappreciated and ill-fated pub rockers Kilburn & the High Roads, Dury cut a striking figure -- he remained handicapped from a childhood bout with polio, yet stalked the stage with dynamic charisma, spitting out music hall numbers and rockers in his thick Cockney accent. Dury was 28 at the time he f...
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