Ian Dury is alive and well and touring the U.K. starting today. He's playing nine shows to help promote a new Ian Dury and the Blockheads album, "Mr. Love Pants."
Dury, diagnosed with liver cancer last January, was mistakenly declared dead not long ago by a subsequently apologetic Bob Geldof, who made the announcement on his London radio show. Dury dispelled further death bed rumors by travelling to Sri Lanka last month with former Take That star Robbie Williams on a UNICEF campaign promoting polio immunization in the region. The disease disabled Dury as a child. The diminutive rocker, 56, and his band are best known for '80s hits including "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons To Be Cheerful." "Mr. Love Pants is his first album with the original Blockheads in 17 years.
