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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER

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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
150-Ian Dury and the Blockheads-Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.
1979-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 1.40.The music loving masochists favourite beat.
‘Rhythm Stick’ was co-written by Ian Dury and Blockheads member Chaz Jankel. Between 1978-1979 the song sold approximately 970,000 copies,with the advent of downloads in 2004 it finally surpassed the 1 million mark,it is currently the 114th biggest selling single of all time in the UK.
Ian Dury was born on the 12th of May 1942 in Harrow,Middlesex,England.At the age of seven he contracted polio,during the 1949 polio epidemic.In 1981 Dury wrote the song ‘Spasticus Autisticus,’written to show his disdain for that years ‘International Year of Disabled Persons,’which he saw as patronising and counter productive.The song was used at the opening of the ‘London 2012 Paralympics’.In 1996 Dury was diagnosed with colorectal cancer,he died on March,27th,2000 aged 57.There were many tributes paid including one from ‘The Madness’ lead singer Suggs who said,’Possibly the finest lyricist we’ve seen.’
‘Hit me with your rhythm stick,it’s nice to be a lunatic.’
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