Because as a child he suffered from polio, the London singer Ian Dury continued throughout his life infirm. He put his handicap as a distinctive element of his performances. Dury (1942 - 2000) broke only as late thirties by the punk era where he was appreciated for his different looks and funny lyrics in flat accent. The Dury music and his regular backing band The Blockheads was a mix of rhythm &
… blues and rock 'n roll with gadgets funk, reggae and punk. With Sex And Drugs And Rock N Roll Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick in 1978, he scored two top-10hits in Netherlands. The number Spasticus Autisticus, according to many critics his best song, he sang inimitably his own disability. Before Dury broke with The Blockheads he played with the band Kilburn & the High Roads. Ian Dury's son Baxter also active as a singer / songwriter.more
