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''The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories'' is the 7th solo album by Ian Dury. Despite being recorded after the successful live reunion of Ian Dury and The Blockheads inspired by the death of their drummer Charley Charles the album is not a Blockheads record, however all of the band bar bassist Norman Watt-Roy appear on tracks on the record. == History == The album has its origins in a 1991 Irish film ''After Midnight'' when asked to produce music for the film Dury recruited Blockhead Mickey Gallagher and Music Students member Merlin Rhys-Jones. Two songs "O'Donegal" and "Quick Quick Slow" along with another "Bye Bye Dublin" were written around this time, and least the latter two were recorded in Shepherd's Bush, London along with incidental music for the film. Ian Dury's in-studio behavior was notably better than it had been during the 1980s and would steadily improve. However one notably drink-fueled event while recording the album on the Mile End Road, London (owned by the brother of Madness keyboard player Mike Barson) is re-accounted often by Gallagher and Rhys-Jones where Dury, drunk on Budweiser became furious allegedly after a technician named Frasier erased Gallagher's keyboard part for "Quick Quick Slow" and threatened to burn the studio down, when he wouldn't calm down the police were called and after spitting at them and calling them 'homosexuals' Dury was arrested. ''Bus Driver's Prayer'' is almost always considered a 'return to form' for Dury as a lyricist, including in both ''Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song by Song'' and ''Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: The Life of Ian Dury.'' The most commonly quoted songs to illustrate this are "Poor Joey" and "Poo-Poo in the Prawn". Demon Records were unhappy with the final album and hardly promoted it despite favorable reviews including in the March 1993 issue of ''Vox'' where it was awarded six out of ten stars. Mickey Gallagher continues to praise the album as one of his favorites, and noted in Song by Song that it was the album he mourned Ian Dury to, following the singer's death in 2000. The album however does still receive criticism for the use of a drum machine. 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「The Bus Driver's Prayer & Other Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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