Ian Dury
The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-1
Look back on our complete countdown of the greatest UK No 1s, from the Beatles to Baby D, and So Solid Crew to Suzi Quatro
Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Alexis Petridis and Laura Snapes
05, Jun, 2020 @8:00 AM
The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 18, Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
The band’s signature hit throws in funk and disco to create an oddly disorienting, almost stoned groove
Dave Simpson
13, May, 2020 @8:00 AM
The greatest banned songs of all time – ranked!
Thirty years on from 2 Live Crew being banned by the Beeb, we pick 20 foul-mouthed, orgiastic outings deemed too scandalous for public consumption
Laura Snapes
14, Feb, 2019 @1:02 PM
Emeritus professors going off at a tangent | Brief letters
Brief letters: David Edgar as Toad of Toad Hall | Time-loop tales | The Blockheads | Professorial absence | Remembering trigonometry
Letters
26, Feb, 2018 @6:22 PM
From Barking to Bow: the songs that champion London's less glamorous corners
London rapper Ramz’s single Barking has risen to No 2 in the Top 40, joining a historic seam of songs hymning the capital’s squalid tower blocks and sleepy suburbs
Laura Snapes
22, Jan, 2018 @2:17 PM
Baxter Dury: Prince of Tears review – making a success of the family business
With his sharply observed vignettes and wry character studies of inadequate men, Dury remains in the shadow of his father Ian – but what a place to be
Alexis Petridis
26, Oct, 2017 @12:00 PM
Please keep the flames to six feet! The wild and wonderful world of Walthamstow art school
In the early 1960s, the old guard running Walthamstow art school quit – and a riotous new spirit took hold, galvanising students from Ian Dury to Peter Blake. Now a new show, Be Magnificent, is celebrating the glory days
Will Ashon
09, Jun, 2017 @1:13 PM
Readers recommend: songs sung with accents - results
Northumbrian Unthanks to Welsh Le Bon, Jamaican Perry to Australian Barnett, RR’s SkippyisaCult traverses the globe for regional charm picked from last week’s topic
SkippyisaCult
26, Nov, 2015 @12:09 PM
Readers recommend: songs sung with accents | Peter Kimpton
Northern to southern, Cornish to Celtic, German to Icelandic, Geordie to Jamaican, delve for songs where the delivery and dialect is distinctive, says Peter Kimpton
Peter Kimpton
19, Nov, 2015 @8:00 PM
Readers recommend: songs about glamour and style - results
Suede to Shorty Long, Roxy Music to Madonna, RR regular llamalpaca dons a suave, stylish outfit to compile a swaggering playlist from last week’s topic
Michael Moloney
12, Nov, 2015 @12:00 PM
Readers recommend: songs about ambition - results
Want to get elected? Make someone love you? Light up the sky like a flame? RR regular magicman does all this and more with a high-achieving selection from last week’s topic
Ralph Brown
30, Apr, 2015 @11:00 AM
Readers recommend: songs about itinerants and migration – results
From Ian Dury via Woody Guthrie to a Romanian fanfare, RR regular suzi takes an entertaining route through a musical landscape inspired by last week’s topic
suzi
16, Apr, 2015 @11:00 AM
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