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Baxter Dury was interviewed in 2005. The Beatles cropped up...
"My old man rejected the Beatles and white rock'n'roll from England, he was pretty dismissive of it, so you grow up precociously being dismissive of it yourself. There is something I still hate about the Beatles, but when you're trying to write songs you're an idiot if you don't acknowledge them, 'cause they're brilliant."
Quite.
Baxter Dury - When I'm Sixty-Four (2012)
Ian Dury, Disco and Don Williams. Melody Maker were casting the net a bit wide for readers in 1978.
ReplyDeleteThat's right: by '78 they wanted to be all things to all men. It never really worked for them
DeleteIan Dury was in one of the Classic Albums documentaries speaking about Steely Dan's "Aja". He said that the album lifted his spirits whenever he played it. As a Dan and Ian Dury fan, I was chuffed to hear him say that.
ReplyDeleteAja lifts my spirits too. And The Nightfly.
DeleteToo right. I'd like to see "I.G.Y." replace "God Save The Queen" as our national anthem.
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