Ian and Spider Rowe

 Somebody asked me the other day about Ian Dury changing the lyrics of ‘England’s Glory' over the years ( he wrote it back around the time of Kilburn and The Highroads pre-Blockheads) and he did sometimes quite often but they asked me about a reference to "Spider Rowe" and this answers that query . . . . . . 

Ian needed help from the effects of his polio as a child to get on stage and rather than be embarrassed about it often became a feature of his arrival on stage with an ‘assistant’ Spider Rowe was an early one of these and is pictured below adjusting the height of Ian’s microphone

‘Spider’ Rowe,

One of Ian Dury’s helpers/minders etc who helped him on stage

gets a shout out in England's Glory at times early on