Ian Dury & The Music Students

• Ian Dury
  Ian Dury
  Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, lyricist, bandleader and actor who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and New Wave era of rock music...
  
   – Vocals (credited by the pseudonym 'D. Poundcake' on "Peter The Painter")
• Michael McEvoy – Bass, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Brass Arranger
• Merlin Rhys-Jones – Guitar
• Tag Lamche – Drums
• Ray Cooper
  Ray Cooper
  Ray Cooper is an English musician. He is a session and road-tour percussionist, and occasional actor, who has worked with several musically diverse bands and artists including George Harrison, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, and Elton John. Cooper is commonly regarded by music fans, critics and fellow...
  
   – Percussion
• Jamie Talbot – Saxophones

Additional Personnel

• Steve Sidwell
  Steve Sidwell (musician)
  Steve Sidwell is a conductor, composer, and instrumentalist specialising in swing music. Renowned as an arranger and composer, Steve, has featured on numerous albums, television shows, advertising campaigns and films with his distinctive and innovative orchestrations and compositions.He is also a...
  
   – Trumpet, Clarinet on "The Man With No Face"
• Neil Sidwell – Trombone
• Geoff Castle – Synthesisers
• Chaz Jankel – Lead guitar on "Percy The Poet"
• Ed Speight – Lead guitar on "Ban the Bomb"
• Rico Rodriguez
  Rico Rodriguez
  Rico Rodriguez MBE , also known as Reco or El Reco, is a ska and reggae trombonist. He has recorded with many producers, including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd 'Matador' Daley...
  
   – Trombone on "Friends"
• Davey Payne
  Davey Payne
  David 'Davey' Payne is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing band The Blockheads, and his twin saxophone solo on their 1978 UK #1 single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"....
  
   – Saxophones on "Peter The Painter"

Sources

• Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life Of Ian Dury by Richard Balls, first published 2000, Omnibus Press
• Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Song By Song by Jim Drury, first published 2003, Sanctuary Publishing.