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Slow Sunday: Musician and author Baxter Dury chats to Nemone about his extraordinary life

Baxter Dury shares the pivotal moments that have made him the artist he is today and the songs that have sound-tracked the ups and downs of his life.

Baxter Dury talks candidly to practising psychotherapist and 6 Music DJ Nemone about the pivotal moments that have made him the artist he is today and the songs that have sound-tracked the ups and downs of his life. Baxter shares the songs that have comforted and connected and reveals how he expresses feelings and emotions through writing his own music.

Baxter talks about his life growing up with his mum, the artist Betty Rathmell, his school days, expulsions (he left school at the age of fourteen), teenage anarchy, navigating friendships, and the Sulphate Strangler (a 6ft 7in drug dealer entrusted with Baxter鈥檚 care). He also talks at length about growing up with his Dad, Ian Dury, the legendary punk poet who could tickle or terrorise Baxter, depending how the mood took him.

Baxter's forthcoming seventh album 'I Thought I Was Better Than You', due for release on the 2nd of June, was part written with his teenage son Kosmo in lockdown. In this special episode, to mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Baxter shares his thoughts on family and forgiveness. Featuring music from Madness to Run D.M.C, and Bob Dylan to Sly & The Family Stone, it's the perfect sound-track for a Slow Sunday.

1 hour

Music Played

  • Baxter Dury

    Miami

    • Heavenly Recordings.
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk

    Abstract Improvisation

    • Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk.
    • Mercury.
  • John Coltrane

    My Favourite Things

    • All That Jazz.
    • IMAGEM MUSIC.
  • Gene Vincent

    Be Bop A Lula

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Shakin鈥 Stevens

    Green Door

    • Shakin' Stevens - Greatest Hits.
    • Epic.
  • Madness

    Embarrassment

    • Virgin.
  • Ian Dury & the Blockheads

    Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

    • Demon Records.
  • The Meters

    Come Together

    • Glass Onion (Songs Of The Beatles From The Atlantic & Warner Jazz Vaults).
    • Warner Jazz.
    • 1.
  • 搁耻苍鈥怐.惭.颁. vs Jason Nevins

    It's Like That

    • Universal Music TV.
  • Bob Dylan

    Hurricane

    • The Best Of Bob Dylan Volume 2.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 12.
  • Baxter Dury & JGrrey

    Aylesbury Boy

    • Heavenly Recordings.
  • Baxter Dury

    I'm Not Your Dog

  • Baxter Dury

    Beneath the Underdog

    • Len Parrot's Memorial Lift.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.
  • Baxter Dury

    Celebrate Me

    • I Thought I Was Better Than You.
    • Heavenly Records.
  • Baxter Dury

    Leon

    • I Thought I Was Better Than You.
    • Heavenly Records.
  • Baxter Dury

    Glows

    • I Thought I Was Better Than You.
    • Heavenly Records.
  • Fred Again.., Baxter Dury

    Baxter (These Are My Friends) (Instrumental)

    • ATLANTIC RECORDS UK.
  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Runnin' Away

    • Epic.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 May 2023 13:00