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Mixed media piece cut from original 12 inch Ian Dury vinyl and presented in 70 x 70 cm x 7cm perspex box case. Unique (as no two are exactly alike) edition of 20 + 2 APs, signed and numbered by Keith Haynes. Price includes perspex box case (ready for hanging) but not delivery.
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David Corio recalls: "I first met Ian Dury in my sister’s flat in Wandsworth in 1977. He was playing drums with Wreckless Eric who was my sister’s boyfriend. I was 17 and Ian was 34. He was very friendly and encouraged me to take music photos. Artistic and knowlegable with a unique sense of humour and a wicked laugh, Ian gave me a lot of confidence to do what I wanted to do. He often spoke in Cockney rhyming slang. Having had polio from an early age he sometimes refered to himself as a raspberry. Raspberry ripple = cripple. I was fascinated and thrilled to know him. He also introduced me to the highly regarded graphic designer Barney Bubbles who was also a big influence. I went to many of Ian’s shows. He was an extraordinary performer and there was always a sense of mayhem on the stage. He’d always invite me backstage to take photos and this wasn’t posed at all. He was dressed as he was about to go onstage with the Blockheads. Unlike many performers he didn’t show any nerves before performing but would normally hang out with his old friends saxophonist Davey Payne and his handler/minder the former burglar Spider."
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Limited edition of 25 archival photographs in this size, signed and numbered on the front under the image area by Chris Gabrin.
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This is an interesting piece of history: the New Boots and Panties cover shot that never was. This is a contact sheet enlargement of an entire roll of film taken by Chris Gabrin for an early idea for the New boots cover. In the end this idea was not pursued, but this sequence of images shows Ian in the doorway of his house while his son Baxter (who features alongside his father on the actual cover photograph) looks out of an upstairs window. Limited edition of 25 archival photographs on 20 x 24 inch paper , signed and numbered on the front under the image area by Chris Gabrin.
