Ian Dury was a fan of Gene Vincent since his early to mid teens and claims to have bought every single Vincent produced. In an interview reprinted in "Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll: The Life of Ian Dury", Dury says that he first heard of Vincent via "Be-Bop-A-Lula"'s inclusion in film "The Girl Can't Help It" and admitted to being reduced to tears by the single as an adolescent. For his whole career Dury would talk very sentimentally, sometimes poetically about Gene Vincent.