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‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down

He skied with Bowie, boozed with Madness and recorded the Teardrop Explodes on acid. But does he regret blowing it with Dave Grohl? The great producer relives his smashes, parties and 11am vodkas

The Guardian - UK

Christine O’Sullivan obituary

Other lives: Clothes designer whose nightwear creations were used by Marks & Spencer and other high street stores

The Guardian - UK

Charlie Sinclair obituary

Other lives: Musician who played in many London venues and with a variety of bands

The Guardian - UK

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“There was bass before Jaco and after Jaco; his playing turned my whole life around”: How Norman Watt-Roy brought a bit of Jaco to Ian Dury’s Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Just a few weeks after seeing Weather Report at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, Norman Watt-Roy found himself in the studio with Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Guitar World

Hammer time: how to bag a bargain at UK auctions

Looking to get a good deal on one-off items that you can’t buy on the high street? We visit a sale and talk to bidders and experts

The Guardian - UK

Music studio door painted with smoking teddy bear artwork to be sold at auction

The teddy bear wearing a suit was painted on the door to make it more easily identifiable.

The Independent UK

Baxter Dury on making the cover of Ian Dury’s New Boots and Panties!!: ‘I walked into the shot and said, “Can we go now?”’

The musician and writer on bringing ‘devil art’ to the home counties – and learning to embrace his dad’s legacy

The Guardian - UK

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‘Ian Dury was a voice for the disenfranchised’: Chaz Jankel, the man who made the Blockheads funky

He wrote the music for Dury’s biggest hits, then struck out for Studio 54 in a brilliant but misfiring solo career. Jankel recalls his strange path through pop – and dodging Dury’s drunken rages

The Guardian - UK

Brian Tufano obituary

Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

The Guardian - UK

City comment: Reasons to be cheerful, one, two, three...

Channelling Ian Dury as the news flow becomes marginally more optimistic

Evening Standard

Did you solve it? Puzzles for blockheads

Were you a Clevor Trever? The solutions to today’s puzzles

The Guardian - UK

‘The baddest technician’: how Don Cherry is still making jazz new

The man who turned bebop upside down with Ornette Coleman went on to work with artists from Sonny Rollins to Ian Dury – and the London jazz festival is set to show he’s still inspiring

The Guardian - UK

My London: Michel Roux Jr

The chef thinks Endo at the Rotunda is culinary heaven, almost got kicked out of Chelsea stadium and wants his ashes thrown in our dirty old river

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