Beschreibung
Here is the first complete, no-holds barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music and this great biography does not shrink from chronicling some of his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author Richard Balls talked to over 50 of Dury's friends as well as to Dury himself shortly before his death.In the course of the book there are vivid insights into a variety of worlds...harsh post-war schools for handicapped children...the Fifties art school scene that would give birth to so many rockers...the ramshackle pub rock circuit of Kilburn & The Highroads and the The Blockheads...plus a lucky dip of celebrities from Omar Sharif and Robert Mitchum to Jane Horrocks, Peter Blake and Bob Dylan.Dury's extraordinary life was always a battle. As a rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom - until now. In a rock biography destined to become a classic, the self-styled 'diamond geezer' stands revealed as a real diamond after all.