Chaz Jankel (Ian Dury and the Blockheads)

Podcast: Ian Talks Comedy · Ian Fermaglich

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

Chaz Jankel and I discuss his changing his name at 13; his neighborhood growing up; producing an album in Port Jefferson, NY; skiffle music; Lonnie Donnegan; being into Afro-American bands of the 60s and 70s; Mill Hill School; Jews in punk; St. Martin's School of the Arts; turning to music; buying a Wurlitzer electric piano; getting a call from Kilburn and the High Roads; meeting Ian Dury; writing songs together; "Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll"; popularizing that phrase; putting together and naming the Blockheads; Chaz's soul vs. Ian's pub band roots; Ian being institutionalized and marginalized with polio...