I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra
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This is a comic, innuendo-driven piece built around a magician's catchphrase repurposed as a euphemism for sexual arousal and fetish gear. Dury piles up music-hall double entendre and third-person evasions—referring to desire as an
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About Ian Dury
Ian Robins Dury was an English singer, songwriter and actor best remembered as the frontman of Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Described by The Guardian as "one of few true originals of the English music scene", Dury drew from music hall and punk traditions, often incorporating observational humour and word play in his lyrics.
1942 - 2000 / United Kingdom
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