Ian Dury - Top 10 X-Rated: Spasticus Autisticus

[THALIDO]

RIP Ian. Your contribution to music will never be forgotten.

[adultdating100]

thumbs up for this Short Film

[hirdy6]

I always thought this was a piss take, not of disabled people but of the establishment and the attitudes that isolate disabled people. I remember a disabled guy I worked with say 'I'm disabled not stupid'. Anyway this clip confirms my belief of Ian's motives, a great bloke who was too clever for all of these know all dick-heads.

[b00mhauer]

Nabil Shaban hit the nail on the head there. The Spastics Society themselves were prejudicial and patronizing towards disabled by complaining about this song. Some people, mostly those "in the normal land" will never get it. Disabled people are human beings, same faults, same needs.

[barnessutcliffe]

@Jamiethewookie

what kind of cunt marks this, the truth as spam?

i bet the beeb shit its pants and never listend to it propperly or in context.

[Jamiethewookie]

@barnessutcliffe Huh? I forget what I put?

[whitecloud1111]

I saw him and the band in the Olympia theatre, Dublin back in the 90's, (I think). It was a sit down gig and the audience was fairly complacent until he played Spasticus. Suddenly they realised that this man had made art out of a disability, was in a way celebrating his condition, and woke up, stood up, and didn't sit down for the rest of the gig, which was followed by three encores and the band had to drag him off in the end cos he wouldn't leave the stage. A great night.

[owenkyffin100]

Fantastic - what a sophisticated man and what a superb band - lucky enough to see them 2 or 3 times - wish I had gone and seen them more

[pogleswood2]

I dont think it was offensive, the BBC  are daft.

[100021861]

Just goes to show he was light years ahead of current thinking.

RIP Ian.

[UKSazzy67]

That's right, Ian was standing up for disabled people, He was one in a million. It's an issue, that a lot of British society doesn't want to face up to.

[piedpiperpianos]

Musicians 1

Politicians Nil

[mellis8005]

I miss Ian. He was a very singular talent, and his physical problems made him who he was in many ways. The music is undeniably inspired. Lets all take something from his gift.

[keanghiero]

What a waste.

5* to Ian

all the best

kean

[ata1811]

Reasons to be cheerful.................Ian Dury! Always told it like it freakin' was. Top Boy!!

[lovingfatalist]

He was a pioneer of disabled dignity. Years before Lars von Trier's "The Idiots", Channel 4's "Cast Offs" and the whole nouveau freak thing. I'll love him forever.

P.S. I have spasticity, from multiple sclerosis x

[2206411411]

The thing I draw from this is that the Spastics Society itself suffered from prejudice against spastics. They say there was a fear of people gaining misunderstanding, though I honestly didn't hear of a sharp rise in violent crime after Hit Me. They claim they didn't understand the meaning, but that tells me they weren't listening. It was well-known Ian was disabled. The only conclusion one can reach is they were prejudiced against the disabled, Spastics particularly. Ironic isn't the word.

[werescaredofbob]

the bbc should ask song writers what they mean and check their facts

[ClemenzaKimble]

Aye. The Jam's Down in the Tube Station at Midnight was banned by them, before Paul Weller phoned in to say it was against the racist murder that was mentioned in the song. They shouldn't have just jumped to conclusions.

[ancientraver19881989]

@ClemenzaKimble whay you on about - 1) Down In The Tube Station Wasnt Banned 2) how do you know he's getting murdered in the song and 3) its not racist they're just white thugs and the victims white as well

[Givemeconvenience]

Genius song.

[humanityfirstnow]

well when the song came out in 1981 I understood it straight away then and it was an excellent song

[WhiteElephant007]

Tim Yeo, a major politician, with very minor understanding. What  scoper.

[JFBridge]

Yeo himself would've been better as a chairman of the Single Mothers Club.After all,he created two of these types!

[THALIDO]

Hard to believe it was banned by the BBC, when he was addressing the problem of peoples perception to the disabled.

[vocalist1952]

Ian was singing about real life. For Christs sake millions are now claiming Disability Allowance, and I would say most of the claimants are people who objected to this song. Bleeding hypocrites, Disability is now a multi pound industry, and as for the Spactic Society - with them objecting to this song they put the reality of disability back about one hundred years, Amazing too that it was mostly able bodied people in the spastic society complaining. Bloody ironic.

[TardisMalcy]

its Sil from Doctor Who!! yeah i remember seeing this on tv, i was listewning to Ian Dury since birth! Legend!

[gerdenshed]

Great video my friend, I bought this great song when it came out :-)

gerdenshed.

[SteveResin]

Yeah me too. Great single, great message.