“Inbetweenies” by Ian Dury & The Blockheads

"Inbetweenies" comes off Do It Yourself, the 1979 album billed to Ian Dury & the Blockheads instead of Dury on his own. It's the Dury and Chaz Jankel team at work: Jankel wrote the music and produced, Dury wrote the words and sings lead, and Laurie Latham recorded it. Norman Watt-Roy's bass and Charley Charles's drums lay down the groove, and Davey Payne chimes in on saxophone.

Much of the album was written at the house Dury was renting in Rolvenden, Kent, his flat near the Oval cricket ground left behind, and it landed hot on the heels of the chart-topping "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick". It climbed to number two, stuck behind ABBA's Voulez-Vous, and went platinum, following New Boots and Panties!! as the second of Dury's albums to do it.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.