In Pictures: Premier Of Ian Dury Bopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
TO the premier of the Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, at Islington’s Everyman cinema. Dury’s partner, Chaz Jankel was there. In the film we see the seminal moment when Dury, of Kilburn & the High Roads, meets Jankel. It is May 1976. Jankel arrives uninvited in Dury’s dressing room. “Do I know you?” asks Dury. “No,” says Jankel. “Well do us a favour then,” says Dury, “and fuck off!” and thus a legend is born. In the film Andy Serkis plays Dury . Serkis played Gollum in Lord of the rings. Dury would have seen the humour in that. Or hated it:
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Pop star Ian Dury arrives at the London headquarters of leading charity CancerBACUP, to help launch a new helpline for people living with cancer. The event involved 850 balloons being released above the city to publicise the charity's work. 29/04/02:The late wordsmith and music icon Ian Dury was being remembered by the switching on of a musical memorial bench at a poets' corner. Dury, the unlikely chart star and people's poet who died just over two years ago, was being honoured with the solarpowered seat which plays a selection of his songs in south London's Richmond Park, a favourite of the star. The bench was being placed in the Poets' Corner of Pembroke Lodge within the vast park where the Blockheads star would spend many a happy hour with his family.
Posted: 7th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
