Stage Show
Apples was a stage show written by Dury with music co-written by Blockheads member Mickey Gallagher on the request of Max Stafford-Clark. The show opened for ten days of previews on 6 October 1989 and the to public 12 days later, all the shows were held at The Royal Court Theatre in London and were directed by Simon Curtis, who Dury had worked with previously in earlier stage work.
The show only lasted 10 weeks before closing and reviews were not favourable nor were they for the Album of same name. The most common complaint about the show was Dury's script. Mickey Gallagher echoed this sentiment in Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury. The play was about Byline Brown, a journalist played by Dury himself investigating a corrupt minister Hugo Sinister.
In the original Ian Dury & The Kilburns version of Apples, the stall owner’s name is Baxter, and the dancer from Soho's name is Jemima, this was changed to Simpson and Delilah for the final version, Baxter and Jemima are the names of Ian Dury's eldest children.
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