LP+2CD+DVD super deluxe comes with 34 different sleeves! Ian Dury & the Blockheads’ album Do It Yourself is to be celebrated this June with a 40th anniversary reissue package. First released in May 1979 following the chart-topping success of ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’, Do It Yourself omitted the track due to his policy of not including singles on his albums, although opening track ‘Inbetweenies’ was issued in Europe. Despite this, the Chaz Jankel/ Laurie Latham produced album still managed to reach number two in the UK album charts (denied the top spot by Abba’s Voulez Vous, no less) although any money made was soon lost on the ensuing European tour where Dury would insist on staying in top hotels, and the whole affair was so stressful for Chaz Jankel he left immediately afterwards. It was also the first album to credit The Blockheads, having only previously mentioned on the 1978 single ‘What A Waste’.
