Ian Dury

Here is the movie for all the Clever Trevors and Billericay Dickies out there! A stunning and truly 'Rare and Unseen' look back at Ian Dury, poet, thinker, geezer and all round crowd-pleaser. He wasn't half a clever b'stard. The earliest known TV performance from the London Programme 1976. Three great interviews with much missed Mancunian Tony Wilson who died in 2007. Final Richard and Judy interview and live performance restored for widescreen. Includes eight live musical performances with the Kilburns and the Blockheads: 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll', 'Sweet Gene Vincent', 'Upminster Kid', 'Rough Kids', 'Billy Bentley', 'England's Glory', 'Blockheads' and 'Geraldine'. Is that enough of the old reading matter for you? This ain't a bleeding library… Oi! Oi!

Probably the most atypical star in the history of popular music, Ian Dury overcame Polio to be one of the most iconic figures of the late punk movement. With his supercharged live performances and unique blend of sexually poetic lyrics, Ian Dury achieved critical aclaim from both his fans and fellow artists. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads to his superstardom with the Blockheads, Ian Dury was a complicated cocktail of warmth, wit, bile and bombast... quite simply he was unique and unforgettable. To discover the legend that is Ian Dury this DVD contains amazing live performances of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, What A Waste, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Sweet Gene Vincent and many other hits from his heyday, alongside in-depth interviews that give an insight to the man himself.

Forty years is a long time in pop music, but through the swinging sixties, glam rock, punk rock, new romantics, dance, rap boy bands, r'n'b - and all pop points between - Top of the Pops has showcased the finest in chart sounds. The show forms part of nearly everyone's life and the best performances, as seen on this DVD, will remain with us forever.

Grabado en vivo el 24 de junio de 1985 en el London Hammersmith Odeon.

Aja was the biggest selling album of Steely Dan's illustrious career. It was the first album by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker as a duo. Fagen and Becker recall the history of the album, along with Peg, Deacon Blues and Josie. Michael McDonald, later of the Doobie Brothers did guest backing vocals on Aja, the late British musician Ian Dury, record producer Gary Katz and the legendary session musicians who worked on Aja also contribute. This is a vivd portrait of a 70's record that is still as fresh and as memorable more than two decades after its release.

Movie adaptation of the 17th century tragedy play, originally written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.

Nueva versión del popular cómic de los años ochenta, tras la protagonizada por el malogrado Brandon Lee. En el Día de los Difuntos, un padre y su hijo presencian un terrible crimen que les convierte en víctimas del asesino. Como venganza, el padre emerge de la muerte con los poderes misteriosos de un cuervo.

En el año 2139, la humanidad vive envuelta en una permanente violencia. Sin embargo, en MegaCity Uno, una de las tres megaciudades que existen en Estados Unidos, hay un hombre dispuesto a luchar contra el crimen: el impacable Juez Dredd.

Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.

Narra la historia de Dima (Omar Shariff) y el Príncipe Meleagre (Peter O'Toole), dos personajes marginales que viven en una alcantarilla, bajo las calles de la ciudad. Los dos buscan la mítica poción mágica del final del arcoiris.

Año 2008: el calentamiento del planeta ha provocado graves inundaciones en todo el mundo, incluida la ciudad de Londres, que ha quedado sumergida bajo varios metros de agua. En este caos, la ley y el orden han desaparecido, y ha surgido un nuevo asesino, sobrenatural, implacable e imposible de detener. El atípico policía Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) conoce desafortunadamente al criminal... y hará lo que sea para acabar con él. Pero cuando el asesino es una pérfida máquina de matar de más de tres metros de altura, ni en el futuro hay armas capaces de detener su sangriento dominio.

An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.

Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny messes up, he loses a lot of money, his girlfriend Kate's money. Alone, desperate and on the run from a couple of hit-men, he applies for a job as an entertainer's assistant becoming a dancing bear. Unwittingly learning of secrets around him, his past catches up with him.

Albert es el sádico dueño de un restaurante. Su fuerte carácter y las tiránicas formas que aplica en el trabajo hacen que todos los empleados estén sometidos a un continuo régimen de esclavitud, incluida su esposa, Giorgina, a quien ridiculiza.

A comedy in which a German woman falls in love with a British pyromaniac.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un soldado deserta, tras herir a un oficial con un cuchillo. En su huida, el joven se camufla en una caravana de gitanos que encuentra por el camino.

A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.

England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that interests him, until he meets a mysterious woman in a van, who seems to be on the run from the authorities.

An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of the east end

A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.

Organized by Paul McCartney and the United Nations, these concerts were in response to the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge’s reign, where three million persons perished in Cambodia. During the concerts, McCartney brought three generations of popular musicians together. The older generation included McCartney and the Wings, The Who and members of Procol Harum. The middle generation was represented by Queen and members of Led Zeppelin. Most notably, there was the new generation of mainly New Wavers and Punk Rockers, such as The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Clash, and The Specials.

Ian Dury & The Blockheads in concert at Queen's University, Belfast. 3rd February, 1979. * Setlist: Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll / I’m Partial to Your Abracadabra / Clevor Trevor / This Is What We Find / Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick / There Ain’t Half Been Some Clever Bastards / Sweet Gene Vincent / What A Waste / Blockheads

Legendary documentary of the 1977 package tour arranged by David Robinson and Andrew Jakeman ("Kake Riviera") after they founded Stiff Records in London, England for five of their artists, and the bands that they concocted for the tour.

The Blockheads are an English rock band formed in London in 1977. Originally fronted by lead singer Ian Dury as Ian Dury and the Blockheads or Ian and the Blockheads, the band has continued to perform since Dury's death in 2000. These are the first 6 promotional videos