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Ian Dury (May 12, 1942 - March 27, 2000) born in London son of a university academic and a bus driver, was an English rock and roll singer and songwriter, one of few true originals of the English music scene in the last 30 years.

He contracted Polio from swallowing swimming pool water when he was 10 years old which left him permanently disabled needing a stick and leg caliper. After studying painting at the Royal Academy with Peter Blake the pop artist working with The Who and The Beatles, Dury went into music and rose to fame during the 1970s, as a founder of punk and New Wave.

With his razor blade earring, clothes, and powerful stage persona he was the trailblazer that many would follow. Regularly voted top music personality he toured with Elvis Costello and around the USA with Lou Reed, influencing the likes of The Clash, The Pretenders and the Sex Pistols.