• "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3" is a song and single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, initially released as the single "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3...
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    with Dury, "What a Waste", "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3", and "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll". In 1974, Radio Caroline's...
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  • "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards", "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3", "Common As Muck", "I Want To Be Straight", "That's Not All" (the A and B sides...
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  • Reasons to Be Cheerful may refer to: Reasons to Be Cheerful (book), a 2008 book by Paul Gorman about the graphic artist Barney Bubbles "Reasons to Be...
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    release of "Rhythm Stick" and their next single, "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3", which returned them to the charts, making the UK Top 10. Jankel was replaced...
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  • on January 31. The album is part of a larger multimedia project titled Reasons to Be Cheerful which aims to give reasons for being happy and optimistic...
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    Adriano Celentano (category Articles prone to spam from March 2012)
    the Blockheads song and single, "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3", as one of the aforementioned "reasons to be cheerful", and in Fellini's 1986 film Ginger...
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    Rock & Roll", "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3". In addition to his work with the Blockheads, Jankel has had a solo...
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    again, I'd rather be a lemming"), to a synthesiser backing. The title is a reference to the hit song "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" by Ian Dury and The...
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  • Isaacs – "Puff, the Magic Dragon" Ian Dury and the Blockheads – "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" Richard and Linda Thompson – "Calvary Cross" Jackson Browne...
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  • bonus tracks then with the addition of "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" – a song that had no real relation to the album and featured a different band...
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  • single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (Disco Version) – 5:20 "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" (Dury, Davey Payne, Jankel) – 4:53 All tracks remixed by Paul...
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  • failed to chart. Subsequently, three stand-alone singles, "What a Waste", "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" and "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3", all reached...
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    their single "A Message to You, Rudy". Rodriguez is mentioned in the Ian Dury and the Blockheads song "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3". The song was released...
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    Blockheads went on to record the Do It Yourself (1979) album, toured Europe and the UK recording in Rome "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3", which was released...
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    and the Blockheads' 1979 song "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3", Colleano was included in the list of reasons to be cheerful. 'Colleano dies after party'...
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  • mentioned him in the song "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3". Harris later recorded an album dedicated to Dury, Twenty Reasons To Be Cheerful (2000), and his early...
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  • Liszt/R. O'Brien) b/w "There's a Light (R. O'Brien) – unreleased "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3" "Andrew O'Bonzo: A Talk with Richard O'Brien's music publisher...
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    titled Reasons to be Cheerful. Billed as "a ninety-minute show based on a four-minute pop song", it was based on the song "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" by...
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  • Archived from the original on 5 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018. "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3" followed, a list song with an irresistible opening...
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  • Scammells” was among the reason to be cheerful in Ian Dury and the Blockheads 1979 hit single Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3. A Scammell S24 is featured...
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    following in the UK and other countries, and their next single "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" made number three in the UK. The band's second album, Do It...
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  • earlier than this, in 1979, Ian Dury and the Blockheads released "Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)", another record with influences from hip hop. Then Sex Pistols...
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  • used a review of the album to liken it to a Brat-era successor to Ian Dury and the Blockheads's "Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3" and Lex McMenamin of Teen...
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    (collapsed on desktop site) does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top 10 solo single. Original songs from...
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  • to get thrown out one Thursday afternoon for gaining entry without permission. The Ian Dury and the Blockheads song "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3"...
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  • "Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" to be about them. The reference to "sing-alonga Smokey" was actually about Smokey Robinson. Dury politely agreed to listen...
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  • February 2022. "ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 6 February 2022. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie...
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  • Broadwater Farm, Baskerville, New Cross) "Reachin'" by Alabama 3 "Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3" by Ian Dury "Red Bus Rover" by Sidi Bou Said "Red For Piccadilly"...
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  • – The Sugarhill Gang (#36 US: first rap song to hit Billboard's Top 40) "Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)" – Ian Dury & the Blockheads "Refugee" – Tom...
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