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.

[Toby Dyter]

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.

[chandrandev9]

I wonder what Ian Dury thought of the song being performed in the Paralympics opening ceremony?

[SrWilson3s]

its a classic the bbc are the real spastics

[baddaboomb]

Ian and the blockheads are legends. Absolute legends.

[supersentai1975]

I have learning difficulties myself, yet I don't find Spaz offensive. As they said, Ian wasn't trying to have a go, nor make fun at disabled people. The message was he wanted those with disabilities to be treated fairly, not like dirt. 

[Jamiethewookie]

Huh? I forget what I put?

[barnessutcliffe]

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.

[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.