Sex & Drugs & Rock N Roll

The Life Of Ian Dury

Richard Balls

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OMNI BOOKS
03 October 2024

Music; Music: styles & genres; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

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.

By: Richard Balls
Imprint: OMNI BOOKS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781915841391
ISBN 10: 1915841399
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 03 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Balls is a die-hard music fan who stumbled upon The Pogues on their first nationwide tour in 1984. An established writer and rock biographer, Richard was a newspaper journalist for twenty years - almost half of which he spent in Ireland. His books include the biography of Shane MacGowan A Furious Devotion, and Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story.

Reviews for Sex & Drugs & Rock N Roll: The Life Of Ian Dury

""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 ""Ian Dury was one of the Greatest of Britons"" Andy Serkis ""One of the best biographies I've ever read"" Daily Express ""Indispensable"" Time Out