IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS – HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK 12″ – EXC+ UK 1978 PUNK NEW WAVE

Ian Dury – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
(Stiff Records  1978  12BUY38)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

Stiff Company Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners, ringwear with small sticker in top right corner

Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads, the Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.

“Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick” is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 1 December 1978 and credited to “Ian & the Blockheads”. Written by Dury and the Blockheads’ multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group’s most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and it was also a top 20 hit in several European countries.