Ian Dury - Top 10 X-Rated: Spasticus Autisticus

The banning of Ian Dury's Spasticus Autisticus on ch4's Top Ten X-Rated.

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[gerdenshed]

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

gerdenshed.

[SteveResin]

Yeah me too. Great single, great message.

[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

[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.

[Jamiethewookie]

@barnessutcliffe Huh? I forget what I put?

[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.

[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

[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.

[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