Editing Ian Dury (section)

===Other solo work===

Dury continued to record other work without the Blockheads, including ''[[Lord Upminster]]'' (1981); ''[[Apples (album)|Apples]]'' (1989) and ''[[The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories]]'' (1992). He also released a single album with the Music Students, ''[[4,000 Weeks' Holiday]]'' (1984).
His 1981 song "[[Spasticus Autisticus]]"{{snd}} written to show his disdain for that year's [[International Year of Disabled Persons]], which he saw as patronising and counter-productive{{snd}} was banned by the [[BBC]] from being broadcast by the BBC before 6 pm. The lyrics were uncompromising:

<poem>
    So place your hard-earned peanuts in my tin
    And thank the Creator you're not in the state I'm in
    So long have I been languished on the shelf
    I must give all proceedings to myself</poem>
The song's refrain, "I'm spasticus, autisticus", was inspired by the response of the rebellious Roman [[gladiator]]s in the film ''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]'', who, when instructed to identify their leader, all answered, "I am [[Spartacus]]", to protect him. According to George McKay, in his 2009 article "Crippled with nerves" (an early Dury song title), for ''Popular Music'':<ref>{{cite journal |first=George |last=McKay |date=2009 |url=http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2372/1/displayFulltext.pdf |title='Crippled with nerves': popular music and polio, with particular reference to Ian Dury |journal=Popular Music |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=341–365 |doi=10.1017/S0261143009990109 |s2cid=161590800 |access-date=12 June 2018 |archive-date=16 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916101509/http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2372/1/displayFulltext.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{blockquote|Ian Dury, that 'flaw of the jungle', produced a remarkable and sustained body of work that explored issues of disability, in both personal and social contexts, institutionalisation, and to a lesser extent the pop cultural tradition of disability. He also, with the single "Spasticus Autisticus" (1981), produced one of the outstanding protest songs about the place of disabled people in what he called 'normal land'.}}

Dury described the song as "a war cry" on ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''.{{cn|date=April 2023}} The song was used at the opening of the [[London 2012 Paralympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/london-2012-paralympic-games-lost-legacy/ |title=The London 2012 Paralympic Games – A Lost Legacy? |date=26 August 2016 |author=Graeae |publisher=Disability Arts Online |access-date=26 April 2022}}</ref>
In 1984, Dury was featured in the music video for the minor hit single "[[Walking in My Sleep]]" by [[Roger Daltrey]] of [[The Who]].{{cn|date=April 2023}}