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Wikipedia article




{{Infobox song

| name = Dance Little Rude Boy

| cover = Dance_Little_Rude_Boy.JPG

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Ian Dury and The Blockheads

| album = Ten More Turnips from the Tip

| B-side = It Ain't Cool

| released = 2002 (UK)

| recorded = RAK Studios, 1999

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Pop rock, funk rock

| length = 4:34

| label = East Central One / Ronnie Harris Records

| writer = Ian Dury / Chaz Jankel

| producer = Laurie Latham

| prev_title = Apples / Byline Brown

| prev_year = 1989

| next_title = One Love

| next_title2 = Ballad of the Sulphate Strangler

| next_year = 2002

| misc =

}}

'Dance Little Rude Boy' is the penultimate single to be released by British rock band Ian Dury and the Blockheads. The single was recorded at RAK Studios when Dury was still able to perform. It was released after Dury's death, on East Central One / Ronnie Harris Records, in 2002.

The song was one of two singles taken from the 2002 album 'Ten More Turnips from the Tip', (the other being "One Love" / "Ballad of the Sulphate Strangler").

The B-side to this single included two songs, "Books and Water" and "It Ain't Cool"

Reception



Reviewing the album for the BBC in 2002, Chris Jones said:



The title seems to imply some kind of rejected product is on offer here. How far this is from the truth is immediately made plain from the sophisticated stroking of a Fender Rhodes that opens the first track "Dance Little Rude Boy". Tarred with the somewhat derogatory "pub rock" brush, the one quality that the Blockheads always had in spades was, well...quality. ... Several tracks do actually date from the intensely prolific period, paradoxically spawned by Ian's inevitable decline in the face of illness. You would never know it from the evidence. The aforementioned "Rude Boy", "Books and Water" and "It Ain't Cool" all bounce with robust good health with Dury's razor-sharp lyrics cutting a swathe through the smoothest jazz-funk this side of the Atlantic.



Writing in 'The Guardian' in 2008, British comedian Phill Jupitus recalled seeing Dury's last gig: "I compered Ian Durys last ever gig at the London Palladium in 2000, which was such a sad night. After the gig he sent me this: lyrics to "Dance Little Rude Boy". He had such a good attitude: he said that he didn't have cancer, cancer had him, and would have to deal with him."

Personnel



* Ian Dury - vocals

* Chaz Jankel - guitar, keyboards

* Mickey Gallagher - keyboards

* Johnny Turnbull - guitars

* Norman Watt-Roy - bass

* Dylan Howe - drums

* Gilad Atzmon - saxophones

References





Category:1999 singles

Category:Ian Dury songs

Category:Songs written by Ian Dury

Category:Songs written by Chaz Jankel

Category:1999 songs

Category:Songs about dancing


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