Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll: The Life of Ian Dury (Omnibus Remastered)

Richard Balls

"Ian Dury was one of the Greatest of Britons" - Andy Serkis

Dury always met life head on, both in his relationships and in his music. As rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom – until now. This acclaimed biography shines a light on it all, chronicling his darker moments as well as his triumphs.

Author Richard Balls talked to more than fifty of Dury’s friends, as well as to Dury himself shortly before his death. This remastered edition includes the continuing success of The Blockheads and tells the inside story of the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, a foreword by Martin Freeman and an afterword from Andy Serkis.

There are vivid insights into harsh post-war schools for disabled children, the fifties art school scene and the ramshackle pub rock circuit, plus a mixed bag of celebrities from Peter Blake to Omar Sharif.

"Tells Dury's story with great lucidity" Record Collector

"For all its unflinching honesty, this splendid, bawdy account of his time on the planet seems like a fitting epitaph" Q

"Grips right from the start" The Times

"One of the best biographies I've ever read" Daily Express

"Indispensable" Time Out

Publication Date: 03.10.24
ISBN: 9781915841391
Extent: 408 pages
Format: Paperback

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