Colorized rendition of the album cover for Ian Dury's New Boots and Panties!! by Peter Blake and Chris Gabrin

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Shtick: The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury

Alternative Rock Cultures

[11 January 2007]

by Iain Ellis

Ian Dury's subversive humor gently ribbed the eccentrics within his own class-culture. His caricatures were vicarious self-parodies, pre-emptive strikes fending off a dominant middle-class inclined to more demeaning and patronizing portraits of its "inferiors".

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