Chords for Parkinson - Ian Dury Pt 1

My final guest tonight is one of the most remarkable figures to emerge from the colorful and often bizarre world of rock music
Semi crippled by polio at the age of seven
He didn't stop performing until he was over 30 and only achieved fame at 35 since then he's amused entertained
And of course outraged people throughout Britain with his unique songs and equally unique performing style.
Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Dury
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[G] Ian, welcome
When in fact I mentioned that you were crippled as a child when in fact did you get polio?
1949 seven years old
Seven and how [Db] how in fact did it [G] affect you physically?
Down the left-hand side.
It got me all over and then I was in the plaster for about
Three months with a bandages off a plaster of bandages
And then this the leg got out the right leg got out first and then me right arm got out
Did it stop there?
So this hand that you never got so it's more or less all over me, but it stayed more down the left
You were seven at the at the time and you've been on holiday and you've been in a swimming bath.
Yeah
I've been surfing so very swimming.
Yeah, I went down to me granny's in Cornwall and it takes about
Week and a half two weeks to come up on
_ How _ did _ [A] affect you psychologically
Well, [Em] eventually I suppose it toughens you up but at [G] the time well first as a child
I don't I probably didn't realize I had a psychology until I was about 15 anyway, but I didn't really notice that
But _ _ _ you went to a special school in you I mean you obviously made away from the very beginning that you were different
Yeah, what was that like that special school Charlie?
That was it was quite tough then because I think the National Health Service didn't begin until I don't know what was you know
[Eb] That ninety forty [Cm] eight was it off
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And I went there about 1950
Fifty and a half fifty one and it was still just coming come stopping from being a charity institution
They're being a properly organized place.
So it was a bit heavy there first
Bits and pieces going like what you were in with mentally
Retarded children too much.
I believe that then there was 60% of the kids
Well, they were all physically disabled and I think it was 60% of them 120 boys also
Born with something wrong with their brains as well
Nowadays, I believe it's more like 30%
still all
Now I mean the fillet of my [N] children a lot of them went there
Charlie and it was girls over one side of a common and boys on this side and we never really saw each other at all
Now I think it's more co-education and more sensible and they got swimming pool and stuff.
Then it was a
Bit of a rough house really it was good for it was good for your spirit and good for you
You're toughening yourself up.
It's probably very good for your psychology.
We never thought about things like that
We got on if somebody had to call it was on and you're gonna have a fight
The game was you sat next to me
So what are you on the floor with two calipers with one cut up you can sit next to as long as you have one
Arm one leg the [Gm] cynics we jump on the bench.
You'd end up on the floor anyway
Well, that's on it.
I had to have my opponent sitting on my left [N] hand side
_ _ And I remember gizmo Sedgwick who had two
Calipers and crutches and I've done like you I went was a so I'm gonna take a question
Look at the crutches and fall right on top of you
No, no, they did not
What _ about when you went to you because you passed the 11-plus in you and then we have 12 hours to grammar school
I'll pass the 12 plus a 12
My mom suggested that I
Should go and get myself an education.
I was in by then.
I was enjoying it there
um the but the only jobs really that they more like a they would teach you a bit cobbler or
Carpenter or a printmaker?
So my mom thought I should be a lawyer she turned out wrong actually, but
so she got me to take the 11 plus which I did and then I got a grant from Essex County Council to go to
a grammar school boarding school
How much we will singled out there?
I mean at first I was I was the blue-eyed brown-eyed boy
I I had a lot of help and a lot of in fact more help than I needed and I didn't really I
Took advantage rather badly.
I felt now looking back.
I let him do it
They used to make my bed or if I fell over they pick me up a Charlie if you fell over you you got yourself up
um, they were always a couple trying to get themselves up and
[Gm] _ And we weren't to
[N] For a year at Charlie I got extra well treated and sorry not Charlie at the grammar school then they realized
I didn't like me anymore
We're rebellious I became a bit rebellious as a result when I'm not liking me is my story.
They were all grossest sons
It's not [Ab] you don't like grossest sons.
I do now
_ _ Would [N] you leave the school in disgrace or what semi I was allowed back and then I
Had a bit of a contrite on with the headmaster's wife over over a piece of fish
I my friend spike was sitting there and I was on the
The back of the headmaster there was a boarding school and the headmaster's house was here
So that there was a house master now up here
The headmaster was over but Fridays when it was fish the headmaster's wife coming from them
slipping out on the plates and
I think I just had the I didn't want the fish.
It was cod boiled in milk.
So [G] I had the
Potatoes and the sauce with the egg bits in it.
I didn't have the other so she comes you haven't had I said no
I haven't this is true.
I've got my potatoes and my sauce and she went have a piece of fish blush that way
Oh, thank you
And she went away.
I gave it to my mate Jack and he ate it and she came back
She said you a meat fish.
I didn't know and
About five minutes later the whole place went quiet
I'm sitting here and I clear the footsteps of the headmaster big Ethan six foot three [N] and he went jury come with me
He was well _ _
I went out with him and I mean, I don't really not because of a he punched me right up in the air
He was right [G] there full of fear
Flash like that in his study in private and there weren't any witnesses and I never actually I didn't know these things
Then I should have been a lawyer and I I just kept stum about it
He threw me out of school.
Then he said I'll come out and do me old levels
See, he'd been very nice to me for two years
Then he thought I'd turn into a villain so I think it was a result of five years of
Aggravation of my part giving him so he gave me some back.
So I thought that was a deal