Friday, September 26, 2008

'ave some of that-a!

When Ian Dury found out he was dying, he didn't go down easily. He recorded a new album and toured and toured, belting it out.

He also got to do this short film. Yes, it's an ad for a newspaper, but they gave him the space to say anything he wanted. And as he was dying and wanted the cash to take care of his young kids, you can't begrudge him it at all.

Beautiful.

2 comments:

Alice said...

Yeah, that's really nice :-)

rhythmicginger said...

Wow, that's awesome.

god bless 'im.

By the way, my blog is now called Gingerness as too many people I want to employ me were stumbling across it.

I don't want to seem like I'm selling out, but I need to eat :) Potential employers coming across me talking about wanking in a cave or how many drugs I've done might affect that a bit.

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