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Music

Baxter Dury on London going to the dogs, his acclaimed new album and his dad

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

In the last week of October, the middle-aged Baxter Dury and the boy Baxter Dury were brought together. The 45-year-old man released his fifth album, Prince of Tears, his best so far. The five-year-old boy, meanwhile, appeared on the cover of New Boots and Panties!!, by his father Ian Dury, released in 1977, but re-released in a bells-and-whistles deluxe edition the same day Prince of Tears came out.

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