Hallo sausages - Ian Dury

Comes with an exclusive CD of previously unreleased materialSex and drugs and rock and rollIs all my brain and body needSex
and drugs and rock and rollIs very good indeedFamous for
his funny, provocative, visceral lyrics, Ian Dury was a rock-and-roll poet and
legendary force on the London music scene from 1970 onwards. In the
course of his unstoppably creative career, he studied art with Peter
Blake, before turning his mind to music. When he teamed up with a band
called The Blockheads, a new era in New Wave music exploded into being,
as they turned out hits like 'Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll', 'Hit Me
With Your Rhythm Stick' and 'Billericay Dickie'.Here, for the
first time, are Ian Dury's collected lyrics - not only material that was
released, but also material that has been gathered by his daughter
Jemima from old demos, song fragments and other sources that, until now,
have remained hidden.The renowned designer and artist Jake Tilson, who
was also Ian Dury's brother-in-law, has put the lyrics together with the
original scrawled notes (complete with coffee stains), typewritten
songs, and miscellany of scraps that inspired them. Hallo Sausages is arranged
chronologically: the six chapters cover every phase in Ian Dury's career
from his early days in the seventies right up to his death in 2000.
Each chapter is introduced by Jemima, who paints a warm, insightful, and humorous portrait of
the man behind the outrageous words.