//Keith Lucas and Ian Dury onstage at the Kings Road Theatre, November 1974. Photo: Simon Haynes Collection//
As these rarely seen photographs show, when the subject of my last book the late Tommy Roberts took over management of Kilburn & The High Roads he sought to elevate them from the pub-rock scene by upping the visual ante on every front.
//From left: Lucas, Dury, David Rohoman, Charlie Sinclair and Davey Payne//
Ian Dury sent this letter to Roberta Bayley in May 1977.
As the late songsmith’s biographer Will Birch explains here, Dury was just a few months away from achieving nationwide fame.
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