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Formed in 1977 to promote Ian Durys’ album New Boots and Panties on the first Stiff Records tour of the UK Chaz Jankel Norman Watt-Roy Charlie Charles John Turnbull and Mick Gallagher became known as ‘The Blockheads’ (a reference to a song on Ian’s album). As ‘Ian Dury & The Blockheads’ they went back out on tour this time without Chaz Jankel and in 1978 released What a Waste a single that reached number five in the U.K. charts.
