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"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 23 November 1978. Written by Dury and the Blockheads' multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and it was also a top 20 hit in several European countries. "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" was named the 12th best single of 1978 by the writers of British music magazine ''NME'', and best single of 1979 in the annual 'Pazz & Jop' poll organised by music critic Robert Christgau in ''The Village Voice''. By June 2013, it had sold 1.11 million copies in the UK, making it the 90th best selling single of all time in the UK at that point. ==Composition== Co-writer Chaz Jankel has repeated a story both in ''Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: The Life of Ian Dury'' and ''Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song by Song'' that the song was written in Rolvenden, Kent during a jamming session between him and Dury. Jankel relates that the music was inspired by a piano part near the end of "Wake Up and Make Love with Me" (a song on Dury's solo debut ''New Boots and Panties!!'' that Jankel had co-written) and that after listening to it, Dury presented the lyrics for "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" to him the same afternoon. This was later corroborated by Dury. Dury mentioned a number of origins for his lyrics, including claiming that he had written them up to three years earlier and it had just taken him all that time to realise their quality. Blockheads guitarist John Turnbull gives a different account, claiming the lyrics were written while on tour in America six months prior to the song's recording and that he was still adjusting in-studio. He said the line "it's nice to be a lunatic" was originally "it don't take arithmetic". Whilst researching his book ''Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography'', Will Birch discovered that Dury wrote the lyrics for "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" as early as 1976. Ian's typed manuscript, which differs only slightly from the later recorded version and with hand written notes about arrangement and instrumentation ('drums and fuzz bass doing Roy Buchanan volume trick' after first chorus, for example), was posted to a friend in September of that year. The 'lunatic' line reads 'one two three fourithmatic'. 'O'er the hills and far away' was originally 'down to Hammersmith Broadway'. The manuscript, complete with handwritten annotations, was reproduced in ''Hallo Sausages'', the book of Dury's lyrics compiled by his daughter Jemima. According to Jemima it appeared that the origins of the song could be traced as far back as 1974.〔Dury, 2012. p. 118.〕 The song is noted for a complex 16-notes-to-the-bar bassline played by Norman Watt-Roy, which producer Laurie Latham believed had been influenced by seeing Weather Report bassist Jaco Pastorius in concert, and the saxophone solo in the instrumental break in which Davey Payne plays two saxophones simultaneously. In addition to English, the song's lyrics contain phrases in both French and German. According to Dury, the song has an anti-violence message. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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