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“Damon’s got two sides to him. He’s that guy who plays with musicians all around the world. But he’s also got a really hard side...”: Phil Daniels on Blur, Quadrophenia and the solo album he’s recorded

Album is “a cross between Ian Dury and a sort of theatrical night out”

MusicRadar

What links Joni Mitchell, Ian Dury and Frida Kahlo? The Saturday quiz

From ancient China and Paris’s Latin Quarter to ‘Han shot first’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

‘Charisma is a form of psychosis’: inspiring Eric Clapton, having kids at 70 … the irreverent life of post-punk puppeteer Ted Milton

He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentary made by his many children

The Guardian - UK

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"The lyrics weren't a celebration of excess or debauchery, but a detached description of what was going on": The story of Ian Dury's biggest hit, a song that was never actually a hit at all

Its riff was stolen, twice, but its title defined an era and introduced a new phrase into the English vernacular

Louder

"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: Equal parts music-hall scamp, art school troubadour, estuary poet and new-wave figurehead

Louder

Baxter Dury enters his brat era: 'I want to escape the trap of mature man music'

Baxter Dury’s new album Allbarone is a dancefloor filler resulting from a love of Charli xcx and a producer who wouldn’t listen to him

Evening Standard

‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down

He skied with Bowie, boozed with Madness and recorded the Teardrop Explodes on acid. But does he regret blowing it with Dave Grohl? The great producer relives his smashes, parties and 11am vodkas

The Guardian - UK

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Christine O’Sullivan obituary

Other lives: Clothes designer whose nightwear creations were used by Marks & Spencer and other high street stores

The Guardian - UK

Charlie Sinclair obituary

Other lives: Musician who played in many London venues and with a variety of bands

The Guardian - UK

“There was bass before Jaco and after Jaco; his playing turned my whole life around”: How Norman Watt-Roy brought a bit of Jaco to Ian Dury’s Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Just a few weeks after seeing Weather Report at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, Norman Watt-Roy found himself in the studio with Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Guitar World

Hammer time: how to bag a bargain at UK auctions

Looking to get a good deal on one-off items that you can’t buy on the high street? We visit a sale and talk to bidders and experts

The Guardian - UK

Music studio door painted with smoking teddy bear artwork to be sold at auction

The teddy bear wearing a suit was painted on the door to make it more easily identifiable.

The Independent UK

Baxter Dury on making the cover of Ian Dury’s New Boots and Panties!!: ‘I walked into the shot and said, “Can we go now?”’

The musician and writer on bringing ‘devil art’ to the home counties – and learning to embrace his dad’s legacy

The Guardian - UK

‘Ian Dury was a voice for the disenfranchised’: Chaz Jankel, the man who made the Blockheads funky

He wrote the music for Dury’s biggest hits, then struck out for Studio 54 in a brilliant but misfiring solo career. Jankel recalls his strange path through pop – and dodging Dury’s drunken rages

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Brian Tufano obituary

Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

Evening Standard

City comment: Reasons to be cheerful, one, two, three...

Channelling Ian Dury as the news flow becomes marginally more optimistic

The Guardian - UK

Did you solve it? Puzzles for blockheads

Were you a Clevor Trever? The solutions to today’s puzzles

The Guardian - UK

‘The baddest technician’: how Don Cherry is still making jazz new

The man who turned bebop upside down with Ornette Coleman went on to work with artists from Sonny Rollins to Ian Dury – and the London jazz festival is set to show he’s still inspiring

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Evening Standard

My London: Michel Roux Jr

The chef thinks Endo at the Rotunda is culinary heaven, almost got kicked out of Chelsea stadium and wants his ashes thrown in our dirty old river

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