"After nearly 50 years, this album still packs a punch - vital, visceral and contemporary as hell": Ian Dury becomes an unlikely pop star on New Boots And Panties!!

Ian Dury in 1977.

Ian Dury: New Boots And Panties!!

(Image credit: Stiff Records)

Wake Up And Make Love With Me
Sweet Gene Vincent
I'm Partial To Your Abracadabra
My Old Man
Billericay Dickie
Clevor Trever
If I Was With A Woman
Blockheads
Plaistow Patricia
Blackmail Man
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Equal parts music-hall scamp, art school troubadour, estuary poet and new-wave figurehead, Ian Dury was many things to many people. But he was little more than a pub rock also-ran, fronting Kilburn & The High Roads, until he signed to the fledgling Stiff Records and delivered what became the label’s first gold album.