Recorded July 1989 Artist Ian Dury Label Warner Music Group Producers Ian Dury, Mick Gallagher | Length 40:19 Release date 1989 Genres Rock music, New wave | |
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Released October 1989
10 February 1990
31 October 2011 Apples
(1989) The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories
(1992) Similar Ian Dury albums, New wave albums | ||
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Apples is a 1989 album by Ian Dury, it was the soundtrack to his short-lived stage-show of same name though it was recorded before the show opened, it contains twelve of the twenty tracks from the show. The album was reissued on 31 October by Edsel.
Contents
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Stage show
Apples was a stage show written by Dury with music co-written by Blockheads member Mick Gallagher on the request of Max Stafford-Clark. The show opened for ten days of previews on 6 October 1989 and to the public 12 days later, all the shows were held at the Royal Court Theatre in London and were directed by Simon Curtis, who Dury had worked with previously in earlier stage work.
The show only lasted 10 weeks before closing and reviews were not favourable nor were they for the Album of same name. The most common complaint about the show was Dury's script. Gallagher echoed this sentiment in Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury. The play was about Byline Brown, a journalist played by Dury himself investigating a corrupt minister Hugo Sinister.
In the original Ian Dury & The Kilburns version of Apples, the stall owner’s name is Baxter, and the dancer from Soho's name is Jemima, this was changed to Simpson and Delilah for the final version, Baxter and Jemima are the names of Ian Dury's eldest children.
Setlist
Songs
1Apples4:38
2Love Is All4:47
3Byline Browne3:18