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Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick

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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. [1]

83 relations: A-side and B-side, Albert Einstein, AllMusic, Australia, Barney Bubbles, Bloomsbury Publishing, British Hit Singles & Albums, Cambridge, Cannes, Capital One, Carl Bechstein, Chaz Jankel, Cockney, Dagenham Heathway tube station, Davey Payne, Disco, Do It Yourself (Ian Dury & the Blockheads album), Doctor Who, Dynamic range compression, Fact (UK magazine), French language, Gaumont State Cinema, German language, Hammersmith Broadway, Hammond organ, Ian Dury, Ireland, Jaco Pastorius, Jagz Kooner, John Turnbull (musician), Kent, Kent Music Report, Kilburn and the High Roads, Kilburn, London, Laurie Latham, Leonardo da Vinci, Manuscript, Mick Gallagher, Moss Bros Group, Music download, Music Sales Group, Music Week, New Boots and Panties!!, New Zealand, Nina Hagen, NME, Noël Coward, Norman Watt-Roy, O2 Brixton Academy, Official Charts Company, ..., Ogg, Old Kent Road, Pan Books, Paul Hardcastle, Pazz & Jop, Phonograph record, Post-punk, Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3, Robert Christgau, Rock music, Rolvenden, Saxophone, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Single (music), Sound on Sound, St Ives, New South Wales, Sternenmädchen, Stiff Records, The Blockheads, The Village Voice, TI Media, Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who), Top of the Pops, UBM plc, UK Singles Chart, Village People, Vincent van Gogh, Waltham Forest College, Weather Report, What a Waste, Will Birch, Y.M.C.A. (song), 12-inch single. Expand index (33 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Barney Bubbles

Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher; 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983) was an English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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British Hit Singles & Albums

British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Capital One

Capital One Financial Corporation is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking and savings products headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

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Carl Bechstein

Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Bechstein (1 June 18266 March 1900) was the maker of C. Bechstein pianos and the founder of C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik.

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Chaz Jankel

Charles Jeremy Jankel (born 16 April 1952), better known as Chaz Jankel, is an English singer, songwriter, arranger, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Cockney

The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.

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Dagenham Heathway tube station

Dagenham Heathway is a London Underground station on the District line located in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

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Davey Payne

David 'Davey' Payne (born 11 August 1944 in Willesden, North West London) is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing band The Blockheads, and his twin saxophone solo on their 1978 UK #1 single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick".

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Do It Yourself (Ian Dury & the Blockheads album)

Do It Yourself is a 1979 album by Ian Dury & the Blockheads.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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Dynamic range compression

Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.

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Fact (UK magazine)

Fact (stylised as FACT) is a music publication that launched in the UK in 2003.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gaumont State Cinema

Gaumont State Cinema is a Grade II* listed Art Deco theatre located in Kilburn, a district in northwest London.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Hammersmith Broadway

Hammersmith Broadway is a major transport node and shopping centre in west London.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Ian Dury

Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Jaco Pastorius

John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz bassist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981.

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Jagz Kooner

Jagz Kooner is an English producer who has worked with Radio 4, Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream for whom he co-produced their cover version of the song 'Some Velvet Morning' sung this time by the model Kate Moss, Garbage and Infadels.

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John Turnbull (musician)

John George Turnbull (born 27 August 1950) is an English pop and rock guitarist and singer.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Kilburn and the High Roads

Kilburn and the High Roads were a British pub rock band formed by Ian Dury in 1970, and the first band formed by Dury.

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Kilburn, London

Kilburn is an area of northwest London, England, situated north-west of Charing Cross.

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Laurie Latham

Laurie Latham (born 1955) is a British rock producer who worked with Glenn Tilbrook, Paul Young and others.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand -- or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten -- as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Mick Gallagher

Michael William "Mick" Gallagher (born 29 October 1945) is an English Hammond organ player best known as a member of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and for his contributions to albums by the Clash.

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Moss Bros Group

Moss Bros Group PLC is a public limited company set up in 1851 by Moses Moss in Covent Garden, London, UK.

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Music download

A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

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Music Sales Group

Music Sales Group is a global music publisher, with headquarters in Berners Street, London.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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New Boots and Panties!!

New Boots and Panties!! is the debut album by Ian Dury, released in the UK on Stiff Records on 30 September 1977.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nina Hagen

Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born 11 March 1955) is a German singer, songwriter, and actress.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Norman Watt-Roy

Norman Joseph Watt-Roy (born 15 February 1951) is an English musician, arranger and composer.

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O2 Brixton Academy

The O2 Academy, Brixton, is one of London's leading music venues, nightclubs and theatres.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Old Kent Road

Old Kent Road is a major thoroughfare in South East London, England, passing through the London Borough of Southwark.

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Pan Books

Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.

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Paul Hardcastle

Paul Louis Hardcastle is a British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Pazz & Jop

Pazz & Jop is an annual poll of musical releases compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice since 1971.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3

"Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" is a song and single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, initially released as the single "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 / Common as Muck" issued on 20 July 1979 and reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart the following month.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rolvenden

Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" is a song and single by Ian Dury.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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Sternenmädchen

Sternenmädchen is a compilation album by Nina Hagen, released in 2001.

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Stiff Records

Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London, England, by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera (real name Andrew Jakeman).

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The Blockheads

The Blockheads are an English rock band.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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TI Media

TI Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK), on the IPC Media website is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

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Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who)

"Tooth and Claw" is the second episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 22 April 2006.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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UBM plc

UBM plc is a global business-to-business (B2B) events organiser headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Village People

Village People is an American disco group best known for their on-stage costumes, catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Waltham Forest College

Waltham Forest College (South West Essex Technical College) located in Walthamstow, North-East London, England, enrolls around 10,000+ students (14- to 19-year-olds and adults) per year.

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Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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What a Waste

"What a Waste" is a song and single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, originally released in 1978 on the Stiff Records single BUY 27 "What a Waste" / "Wake Up and Make Love with Me".

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Will Birch

Will Birch (born 12 September 1948) is an English music journalist, songwriter, record producer and drummer.

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Y.M.C.A. (song)

"Y.M.C.A." is a song by the American disco group Village People.

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12-inch single

The 12-inch single (often simply called 12″) is a type of gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time compared to typical LPs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_Me_with_Your_Rhythm_Stick

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