Sex & Drugs & Rock N Roll
The Life Of Ian Dury
$31.99
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2024
Summary
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 co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915841391 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915841399 |
| Author: | Richard Balls |
| Publisher: | Omnibus Press |
| Imprint: | Omnibus Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 199mm |
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Critics Review
“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
Richard Balls
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.
Martin Freeman is a British actor whose many productions include The Hobbit, Fargo, and Love Actually. Martin Freeman has presented numerous radio programmes about music including for BBC 6 Music.
Andy Serkis is a British actor and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his role in Lord of the Rings. Andy Serkis played Ian Dury in the film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.
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