Sex & Drugs & Rock and Roll...
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Album:New Boots & Panties (+ Bonus CD)
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Track:Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (bonus track) - (studio)
...are very good indeed. With certain reservations.Here are some salient things that I've learned in my (relatively) brief time on Earth: Follow your muse, and enjoy your work. Don't smoke. Savor what you eat, but keep red meat, fried and fatty foods, and refined sugar to a minimum; and, unless you’re at a five-star restaurant, don’t stuff your face. A glass of wine or a beer in a stein is fine, but abuse of hard liquor and narcotics will ruin you. And the giving and receiving of pleasure in equal measure is the way to approach any romantic or carnal relationship. Oh yeah. One more item: Music is nourishment for the soul. Eat up!Now, here’s the late, great Ian Dury - a British singer/songwriter who came to prominence in the punk era, had more than his share of troubles, yet smiled and sang them away on such engaging, memorable hit singles as “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” and “Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3.” He and his sleek, tight band - the Blockheads – offer up the hedonist’s anthem “Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll” from Dury’s 1977 album New Boots and Panties!!, performed extremely live in concert:
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