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Kath: The first 45 single I bought was Ian Dury and the Blockheads' Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick and I always feel quite proud that I bought such a cool record.

But in the midst of the gloom came a chart-topping song of surreal lyrics and funky music that provided the perfect escape: Ian Dury and the Blockheads' Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.

Dury's message in Rhythm Stick was roughly the same as that popped in Jim Callaghan's mouth by the Sun.

That man would be Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the late Nigerian singer-activist who pioneered his own sound, defined it as Afrobeat and used it as a powerful rhythm stick against the nation’s military government.

They scored chart hits with Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick and Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, helped by Dury's outstanding, tongue-in-cheek talent as a lyricist.