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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A traditional horse and carriage containing the coffin of pop star Ian Dury, led the funeral cortege. Flowers lay above the coffin bearing the words, "Ian from Durex". * Other flowers on the hearse were from the band Madness who sent a message saying 'Uncle Ian from Madness'. Other flowers said 'Oi Oi', 'Dad' and 'Durex', the latter a play on Ian Dury's name. The procession left from the Belsize Park area of north London, and passed within half a mile of Kilburn High Road, which gave its name to his first band. Dury died last week aged 57, after a long battle with cancer.
Posted: 7th, January 2010 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
