Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Page #8

Synopsis: Flamboyant entertainer Ian Dury, backed by the Blockheads, takes to the stage, explaining to his audience how, as a child, he contracted polio from a swimming pool and attended a special needs school where he was bullied, particularly by orderly Hargreaves, a fact which shaped his tough and frequently iconoclastic approach to life, culminating in his controversial contribution to the Year of the Disabled. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads, playing seedy pubs with no dressing rooms Ian moves onto chart success with the Blockheads, collaborating with musician Chaz Jankel. His private life is complicated as, separated from the tolerant Betty with whom he remains friends but refuses to divorce for many years, he lives with the much younger Denise along with his adored son Baxter, who will himself become a performer. Ian dies in 2000, having packed an enormous amount of living into a comparatively short life.
Director(s): Mat Whitecross
Production: Lipsync Productions
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
TV-MA
Year:
2010
115 min
Website
348 Views


it's f***ing horrible!

One, two, three.. .

# l'm Spasticus, Spasticus

Spasticus Autisticus

# l wiggle when l piddle

'Cause my middle is a riddle

# Swim!

# Get up! Get up!

Get up that dive board! Over!

# Whoo!

# So place your hard-earned peanuts

in my tin

# And thank the Creator

you're not in the state l'm in

# So long have l been languished

on the shelf

# l must give all proceedings to myself

# l'm Spasticus, Spasticus

Spasticus Autisticus

# 54 appliances in leather and elastic

# 1 00,000 thank-yous from 27 spastics

# Spasticus

Spasticus Autisticus

# l'm Spasticus, Spasticus

Spasticus Autisticus

# Dribbling, wiggling,

fiddling, nibbling

# Fiddling, diddling,

widdling, diddling Spasticus

-I'm Spasticus!

-I'm Spasticus!

# l'm Spasticus!

-Dad!

-I'm Spasticus!

I'm Spasticus!

# One, two, three, four

Spasticus!

Ian! Ian! Ian!

And the moral of the story is

don't go looking for morals in stories.

lf you want a message,

f*** off down the post office.

Someone once asked me

if l'd missed anything.

Well.. .

lf l'd never had a good-looking girl,

a great job, great haircut,

then l could complain,

but the only thing l've ever missed

is a few buses.

One Iast time, Chazanova.

# Blue Gene baby

Now, there are a couple of ways

to avoid death.

And one of them is to be magnificent.

And this is my favourite way.

# Skinny white sailor

The chances were slender

# The beauties were brief

# Shall l mourn your decline

with some Thunderbird wine

# And a black handkerchief?

# l miss your sad

# Virginia whisper

# l miss the voice

# That called my heart

# Sweet Gene Vincent

# Young and old

# And gone #

# Why don't you get back into bed?

# Reasons to be cheerful, part three

# Some of Buddy Holly,

the working folly

# Good Golly Miss Molly and boats

# Hammersmith Palais,

the Bolshoi Ballet

# Jump back in the alley

add nanny goats

# 1 8-wheeler ScammeIls,

Domineker camels

# All other mammals plus equal votes

# Seeing Piccadilly,

Fanny Smith and Willy

# Being rather silly and porridge oats

# A bit of grin and bear it,

a bit of come and share it

# You're welcome, we can spare it

yellow socks

# Too short to be haughty,

too nutty to be naughty

# Going on 40, no electric shocks

# The juice of the carrot,

the smile of the parrot

# A little drop of claret,

anything that rocks

# Elvis and Scotty

days when l ain't spotty

# Sitting on the potty, curing smallpox

# Reasons to be cheerful, part three

# Reasons to be cheerful

One, two, three

# One, two, three

# Health service glasses

Gigolos and brasses

# Round or skinny bottoms

# Take your mum to Paris

lighting up the chalice

# Wee Willie Harris

# Bantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico

Harpo, Groucho, Chico

# Cheddar cheese and pickle

the Vincent motorsickle

# Slap and tickle

# Woody Allen, Dal,

Dimitri and Pasquale

# Balabalabala and Volare

# Something nice to study

phoning up a buddy

# Being in my nuddy

# Saying okey-dokey,

singalong-a-Smokie

# Coming out of chokey

# John Coltrane's soprano,

Adi Celentano

# Bonar Colleano

# Reasons to be cheerful, part three

# Reasons to be cheerful

One, two, three

# Yes, yes, dear, dear

# Perhaps next year

or maybe even never

# ln which case

# Reasons to be cheerful, part three

# Reasons to be cheerful

One, two, three

# Reasons to be cheerful, part three

# Reasons to be cheerful

One, two, three

Johnny!

# Reasons to be cheerful

One, two, three

# Oi, oi, oi!

# One, two, three

Oi, oi. Oi. Oi. Oi. Oi. Oi. Oi.

Now, f*** off all of you. You're fired!

And go and be magnificent!

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