Ian Dury & The Blockheads | 2025. febr. 20
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_-2Sh3DZwh3tGU8Ns8_OQ

Official music video for "I Want To Be Straight" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads.
Newly restored to 4K definition

1. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (0:07)
2. Clevor Trever (4:12)
3. Sweet Gene Vincent (9:23)
4. Blockheads (13:10)

http://autovezetes.network.hu/video/zene/ian_dury__the_blockheads__peel_session_1977

Ian Dury egy rock and roll vándor volt, akinek szellemes humora és intelligenciája Noël Cowardra és Oscar Wilde-ra emlékeztetett. Szórakoztatóként és dalszövegíróként tanúsított szófordulat-gazdagsága a világnak néhány leghíresebb mondatát ajándékozta – például a „sex and drugs and rock and roll” és a „reasons to be cheerful” kifejezéseket. Igazi reneszánsz ember volt – tehetséges festő, zenész és színész –, aki olyan életművet hagyott hátra, amely a mai napig szórakoztat, lenyűgöz és örömet szerez.

A The Blockheads zenekar talán legismertebb slágerei azok a Dury-val közösen felvett kislemezek, mint a „What a Waste”, a „Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick”, a „Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3” és a „Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”.


I'm Charley, you know
I'm Norman pleased to meet you
I'm Mickey, hello
Wilko
I'm Johnny, how are you doing, ahright? Champion!
My name is David
And I'm Ian and guess what?

Oi!

I want to be straight, I want to be straight
I'm sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late
I wanna confirm, I wanna conform
I wanna be safe and I wanna be snug and I wanna be warm

I want to be straight, I want to be straight
I wanna create a place of my own in the welfare state
Brr, gonna be good, brr, gonna be kind
It might be a wrench but think of the stench I'm leaving behind

I want to be straight, I want to be straight
Come out of the cold and do what I'm told and don't deviate
I wanna give, I wanna give, I wanna give my consent
I'm learning to hate all the things that were great when I used to be bent!

Could be not straightness
Dum dum dilley
Might lead to greatness
Dur yuh dum der
Owing to lateness
My chance has only just arrived, ha

Ow! Straight, straight, straight, straight
Straight, straight, straight, straight
Straight, straight, straight, straight, straight

I want to be straight, I want to be straight
I'm sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late
I know that you're right, I know I was wrong
So thanks very much, please keep in touch, I'll be running along

I want to be straight
I want to be straight
I want to be straight
I want to be straight
I want to be straight (Straight, straight)
I want to be straight (Straight, that would be great)

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