Ian Dury
Ian Dury was born in London Borough of Harrow, England, United Kingdom on May 12th, 1942 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 57, Ian Dury biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – February 27, 2000) was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s during the punk and new wave era of rock music.
He was the lead singer of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, as well as Kilburn and the High Roads.
Personal life
Dury married Elizabeth "Betty" Rathmell (born 12 August 1942, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) on June 3rd 1967, and they had two children, Jemima (born 4 January 1969, Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England), and Baxter. Dury divorced Rathmell in 1985 but the two parties remained on good terms. According to The Guardian, he lived with Denise Roudette, a young woman squatting at Oval Mansions in Kennington, which the Guardian referred to as "one of London's most famous squatted buildings" and wrote "most of his best songs there." Bill and Albert had two children with another woman, sculptor Sophy Tilson.
Dury was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 1996 and underwent surgery, but tumors were later discovered in his liver, and he was told that his disease was terminal. Dury and Sophy Tilson married after discovering their illness.
On XFM radio in 1998, Bob Geldof's death was mistakenly announced, owing to hoax information from a listener. Dury collaborated with Madness on their first original album in fourteen years, "Drip Fed Fred." It was one of his last recordings, although it did not appear with the Blockheads in mid-1999 at Ronnie Scott's in Soho. This was a special performance for LWT's South Bank Show, and the audience included invited followers and acquaintances of the band and crew. His deteriorating health was apparent, and he had to take rests between takes and be assisted on and off stage.
On Friday, Ian Dury & the Blockheads' last public appearance was a charity concert in aid of Cancer BACUP, which was sponsored by Kirsty MacColl and Phill Jupitus. Dury was noticeably ill, and she was forced to be both on and off stage.
Dury died of metastatic colorectal cancer at the age of 57 on March 27, 2000. He was described as "one of the few true originals of the English music scene," according to an obituary in The Guardian. "Possibly the finest lyricist we've seen," Madness' lead singer, Suggs, said. Soon after his death, Ian Dury's website launched an online book of condolence that was signed by hundreds of fans. He was cremated following a humanist funeral at Golders Green Crematorium, which included fellow musicians Suggs and Jols Holland and other "celebrity supporters" such as Member of Parliament (MP) Mo Mowlam.