Editing Ian Dury (section)

==Illness and death==
Dury was diagnosed with [[colorectal cancer]] in 1996 and underwent surgery, but tumours were later found in his liver, and he was told that his condition was terminal.<ref name=DuNoyer>{{cite web |url=http://www.pauldunoyer.com/pages/journalism/journalism_item.asp?journalismID=338 |title=Ian Dury: Ambivalent Recollections |first=Paul |last=Du Noyer |publisher=pauldunoyer.com |date=29 September 2012 |access-date=9 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613095545/http://www.pauldunoyer.com/pages/journalism/journalism_item.asp?journalismID=338 |archive-date=13 June 2013 }}</ref>

In 1998, his death was [[List of premature obituaries|incorrectly announced]] on [[XFM]] radio by [[Bob Geldof]], possibly due to hoax information from a listener.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/500829/geldof-falsely-reports-dury-death/|title=Geldof Falsely Reports Dury Death|date=27 August 1998|newspaper=MTV News|access-date=3 December 2016|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220032144/http://www.mtv.com/news/500829/geldof-falsely-reports-dury-death/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1999, Dury collaborated with [[Madness (band)|Madness]] on their first original album in fourteen years on the track "[[Drip Fed Fred]]". It was one of his last recordings, though he also performed again with the Blockheads in mid-1999 at [[Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club|Ronnie Scott's]] in Soho. This was a special performance recorded for LWT's ''South Bank Show'' and the audience were invited fans and friends of the band and crew. His deteriorating condition was evident and he had to take rests between takes and be helped on and off stage.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

Ian Dury and the Blockheads' last public performance was a charity concert in aid of Cancer BACUP on 6 February 2000 at the [[London Palladium]], supported by [[Kirsty MacColl]] and [[Phill Jupitus]]. Dury was noticeably ill and again had to be helped on and off stage.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

Dury died of metastatic colorectal cancer on 27 March 2000, aged 57, in [[Hampstead]], London.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/31/arts/ian-dury-57-roguish-voice-of-punk-music.html|title=Ian Dury, 57, Roguish Voice of Punk Music|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 31, 2000}}</ref>  He was cremated after a [[Religious humanism|humanist]] funeral at [[Golders Green Crematorium]] with 250 mourners at the service, including fellow musicians  [[Suggs]] and [[Jools Holland]] and other "celebrity fans" such as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) [[Mo Mowlam]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/06/willwoodward|title=Humanist farewell for a diamond geezer|date=6 April 2000|first=Will |last=Woodward|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=11 September 2024}}</ref>
An obituary in ''[[The Guardian]]'' called him "one of few true originals of the English music scene".<ref name="G270300"/> Suggs, the lead singer of [[Madness (band)|Madness]], called him "possibly the finest lyricist we've seen". The Ian Dury website opened an online [[condolence book|book of condolence]] shortly after his death, which was signed by hundreds of fans.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://iandury.co.uk/guestbook/condolence.html |title=Book of Condolence |website=Ian Dury |publisher=eastcentralone Ltd.|access-date=2024-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000830005748/http://www.iandury.co.uk/guestbook/condolence.html |archive-date=2000-08-30}}</ref>