Sham 69
Encyclopedia
Sham 69 is an English
punk
band that formed in Hersham
in 1976.
Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi!
and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived their name from a piece of graffiti
that founder Jimmy Pursey
saw on a wall. It originally said Walton and Hersham '69 but had partly faded away, and made reference to when Walton & Hersham F.C.
secured the Athenian League
title in 1969.
notes that Sham 69 was rehearsing in 1976, although only Pursey would remain from this early lineup twelve months later. Sham 69 did not have the art school
background of many English punk bands of the time, and brought in football chant
backup vocals and a sort of inarticulate political populism
. The band had a large skinhead
following (left wing, right wing and non-political), which helped set the tone for the Oi!
movement. Their concerts were notoriously plagued by violence
, and the band ceased live performances after a 1978 concert at Middlesex Polytechnic
was broken up by National Front
-supporting white power skinheads fighting and rushing the stage.
Sham 69 released their first single
, "I Don't Wanna", on Step Forward Records in August 1977, produced by John Cale
(formerly of the Velvet Underground), and its success in the independent charts prompted Polydor Records
to sign the band. Their major label debut was "Borstal Breakout" in January 1978, followed by UK Singles Chart
success with "Angels With Dirty Faces" (reaching number 19 in May 1978) and "If the Kids Are United
" (number 9 in July 1978). They weren't taken from the group's debut album, Tell Us the Truth
, a mixture of live and studio recordings. The group had further chart success with "Hurry Up Harry" (number 10 in October 1978), which came from their second LP
and first full studio
album
, That's Life
. The band's popularity was enhanced by their performances on Top Of The Pops
, and the band performed in the 1980 film, D.O.A.
.
The band eventually started to move away from punk rock, to embrace a sound heavily influenced by classic British
rock
bands such as Mott the Hoople
, The Who
, The Rolling Stones
and The Faces. This was demonstrated by their third album, The Adventures of the Hersham Boys
.
Sham 69 originally broke up after their fourth album, and Pursey moved in a heavy metal
direction after working with the remaining members of the Sex Pistols
for a short time, under the name Sham Pistols
. Rick Goldstein, Dave Parsons, and Dave Tregunna joined the 1980s glam punk
/gothic rock
band The Wanderers with Stiv Bators
of The Dead Boys
before he formed The Lords of the New Church
. Stiv Bators
and Dave Tregunna recruited Nick Turner of The Barracudas
and Brian James of The Damned to become Lords of the New Church
. In 1981, Pursey collaborated with Peter Gabriel
on the single "Animals Have More Fun" which was commercially unsuccessful.
advertising
campaign, long after the rights to the band's songs had been sold. By that time, Pursey was a vegetarian, and he appeared in the British
media
condemning the use of his song by what he considered a multinational abuser of animals and humans.
In 2005, the band gained media attention when "If the Kids Are United" was played during UK
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
's entrance at the Labour Party Conference. As a result of this, the band was invited onto BBC TV's current affairs programme Newsnight
to sing a version of the song. Pursey sang altered lyrics
, including "Mr. Blair/We know you care/So bring them home/Don't leave them there", referring to the troops remaining in Iraq
after the 2003 invasion
.
In 2006, listeners to Christian O'Connell
's Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio
voted overwhelmingly for the band to record a song to support the England national football team
in the 2006 FIFA World Cup
. Released under "Sham 69 and The Special Assembly" (O'Connell and Blur
guitarist Graham Coxon
were also involved), the song was based on the Sham 69 hit "Hurry Up Harry", with the lyrics "We're going down the pub", changed to "We're going to win the cup!" The resulting single, "Hurry Up England
" reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's first such hit in 26 years.
announced that Sham 69 had split because of a bitter fallout between Pursey and Parsons. NME reported that a statement released by Parsons included the message: "Sham 69 have left Jimmy Pursey on the eve of their 30th anniversary. The band had become increasingly fed up with Jimmy's lack of interest in playing live and continually letting down both promoters and fans by pulling out of gigs at the last moment". Parsons and Whitewood continued Sham 69 with Tim V on vocals and Rob Jefferson on bass. This line-up performed tours of the United States, played at many punk festivals
across Europe, and released the album, Hollywood Hero
, in August 2007. Rob Jefferson (bass) has since left Sham 69 and has been replaced by the former U.K. Subs member Alan Campbell. In 2009 Sham 69 was the first major punk band to tour China. Their new album 'Who Killed Joe Public' was released in Autumn 2010 by One Media Publishing.
the re-formation of the original lineup - Jimmy Pursey, Dave Parsons, Dave Tregunna and Mark Cain.
On 4th August The Independent
ran an article regarding a punk compilation album for the benefit of the National Trust who will be selling the album at its gift shops and online to fund conservation work on its historic homes and ancient landscapes. Pursey described it as "the most Tupperware bit of nonsense I have ever heard in my life." He added: "We are so frightened of what we are looking at ahead of us that we are digging trenches in nostalgia. We are just standing our ground and not letting the future affect us".
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band that formed in Hersham
Hersham
Hersham is a village in Surrey, within the M25 boundary. It is within easy reach of Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The main A3 London to Portsmouth road runs through its boundaries...
in 1976.
Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi!
Oi!
Oi! is a working class subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads and other working-class youths ....
and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived their name from a piece of graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
that founder Jimmy Pursey
Jimmy Pursey
Jimmy Pursey is an English singer and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the English punk rock band, Sham 69 from 1976 to 1980, and from 1986 to 2006.-Biography:...
saw on a wall. It originally said Walton and Hersham '69 but had partly faded away, and made reference to when Walton & Hersham F.C.
Walton & Hersham F.C.
Walton & Hersham F.C. is an English football club located in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, currently playing in the Isthmian League Division One South. They play in a red and white home kit at Stompond Lane....
secured the Athenian League
Athenian League
The Athenian League was an English amateur football league for clubs in and around London. The league was formed in 1912 with ten clubs, but had to close down in 1914 due to the onset of World War I. When it reformed in 1920, only three of the previous teams rejoined...
title in 1969.
Early history
The November 12, 1976 issue of NMENME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
notes that Sham 69 was rehearsing in 1976, although only Pursey would remain from this early lineup twelve months later. Sham 69 did not have the art school
Art school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
background of many English punk bands of the time, and brought in football chant
Football chant
A football chant or terrace chant, is a song or chant sung at association football matches. They can be historic, dating back to the formation of the club, adaptations of popular songs, or spontaneous reactions to events on the pitch. They are one of the last remaining sources of an oral folk song...
backup vocals and a sort of inarticulate political populism
Populism
Populism can be defined as an ideology, political philosophy, or type of discourse. Generally, a common theme compares "the people" against "the elite", and urges social and political system changes. It can also be defined as a rhetorical style employed by members of various political or social...
. The band had a large skinhead
Skinhead
A skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youths in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian rude boys and British mods,...
following (left wing, right wing and non-political), which helped set the tone for the Oi!
Oi!
Oi! is a working class subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads and other working-class youths ....
movement. Their concerts were notoriously plagued by violence
Violence
Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...
, and the band ceased live performances after a 1978 concert at Middlesex Polytechnic
Middlesex University
Middlesex University is a university in north London, England. It is located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex from which it takes its name. It is one of the post-1992 universities and is a member of Million+ working group...
was broken up by National Front
British National Front
The National Front is a far right, white-only political party whose major political activities took place during the 1970s and 1980s. Its popularity peaked in the 1979 general election, when it received 191,719 votes ....
-supporting white power skinheads fighting and rushing the stage.
Sham 69 released their first single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
, "I Don't Wanna", on Step Forward Records in August 1977, produced by John Cale
John Cale
John Davies Cale, OBE is a Welsh musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground....
(formerly of the Velvet Underground), and its success in the independent charts prompted Polydor Records
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...
to sign the band. Their major label debut was "Borstal Breakout" in January 1978, followed by UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
success with "Angels With Dirty Faces" (reaching number 19 in May 1978) and "If the Kids Are United
If the Kids Are United
"If the Kids Are United" is a song by Sham 69. The single, backed by the B-side "Sunday Morning Nightmare", was a success and reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart on July 1978...
" (number 9 in July 1978). They weren't taken from the group's debut album, Tell Us the Truth
Tell Us the Truth
Tell Us the Truth is an album released in 1978 by punk band Sham 69. The first side of the album is recorded live, as the other is recorded in studio. Tell Us The Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout" on the live side of the album. The album charted at #25 in UK...
, a mixture of live and studio recordings. The group had further chart success with "Hurry Up Harry" (number 10 in October 1978), which came from their second LP
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
and first full studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, That's Life
That's Life (Sham 69 album)
That's Life is a concept album released in 1978 by English punk rock band, Sham 69. The album had two hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" reaching chart position 10 in UK and "Angels With Dirty Faces", reaching 19 the same year. The album reached position 27, bettering the previous album Tell Us The...
. The band's popularity was enhanced by their performances on Top Of The Pops
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
, and the band performed in the 1980 film, D.O.A.
D.O.A. (1980 film)
D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage is a 1980 rockumentary film directed by Lech Kowalski about the origin of punk rock. The rockumentary takes interview and concert footage of some of punk rock's earliest bands of the late seventies scene...
.
The band eventually started to move away from punk rock, to embrace a sound heavily influenced by classic British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
bands such as Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...
, The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
and The Faces. This was demonstrated by their third album, The Adventures of the Hersham Boys
The Adventures of the Hersham Boys
The Adventures of the Hersham Boys is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1979. It's their most successful album to date, charting at #8 in the UK...
.
Sham 69 originally broke up after their fourth album, and Pursey moved in a heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
direction after working with the remaining members of the Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
for a short time, under the name Sham Pistols
Sham Pistols
The Sham Pistols were a punk rock band composed of guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, and vocalist Jimmy Pursey and bass player Dave Treganna of Sham 69.-Formation:...
. Rick Goldstein, Dave Parsons, and Dave Tregunna joined the 1980s glam punk
Glam punk
Glam Punk is a music genre that mixes elements of glam rock with protopunk or punk rock ....
/gothic rock
Gothic rock
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...
band The Wanderers with Stiv Bators
Stiv Bators
Stiv Bators , was an American punk rockvocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands, The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church.- Music and film career :...
of The Dead Boys
The Dead Boys
The Dead Boys were an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Among the first wave of early punk bands, the Dead Boys were initially active from 1976 to 1979, briefly reuniting in 1987, 2004 and 2005.-Formation and 1970s punk rock era:...
before he formed The Lords of the New Church
The Lords of the New Church
The Lords of the New Church were an English/American post-punk supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from prominent 1970s punk bands...
. Stiv Bators
Stiv Bators
Stiv Bators , was an American punk rockvocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands, The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church.- Music and film career :...
and Dave Tregunna recruited Nick Turner of The Barracudas
The Barracudas
The Barracudas are an English based Anglo-Canadian band formed in the late 1970s.The band's original lineup consisted of: Jeremy Gluck , Robin Wills , Starkie Phillips and Adam Phillips....
and Brian James of The Damned to become Lords of the New Church
The Lords of the New Church
The Lords of the New Church were an English/American post-punk supergroup with a line-up consisting of four musicians from prominent 1970s punk bands...
. In 1981, Pursey collaborated with Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...
on the single "Animals Have More Fun" which was commercially unsuccessful.
1987 and later
In 1987, Sham 69 was resurrected with a different line-up, releasing the single "Rip And Tear". "If the Kids Are United" was used in a McDonald'sMcDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
campaign, long after the rights to the band's songs had been sold. By that time, Pursey was a vegetarian, and he appeared in the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
condemning the use of his song by what he considered a multinational abuser of animals and humans.
In 2005, the band gained media attention when "If the Kids Are United" was played during UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Prime Minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
's entrance at the Labour Party Conference. As a result of this, the band was invited onto BBC TV's current affairs programme Newsnight
Newsnight
Newsnight is a BBC Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians. Jeremy Paxman has been its main presenter for over two decades....
to sing a version of the song. Pursey sang altered lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
, including "Mr. Blair/We know you care/So bring them home/Don't leave them there", referring to the troops remaining in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
after the 2003 invasion
2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
.
In 2006, listeners to Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell
Christian O'Connell is an English radio DJ who presents the Absolute Radio weekday breakfast show.He has formerly hosted BBC Radio Five Live's weekend sports game show Fighting Talk alongside the weekday breakfast show on indie music station Xfm London...
's Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio
Virgin Radio
Absolute Radio is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations. The station rebranded to its current name at 7.45am on 29 September 2008.The station is based in London and plays popular rock music...
voted overwhelmingly for the band to record a song to support the England national football team
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
in the 2006 FIFA World Cup
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six...
. Released under "Sham 69 and The Special Assembly" (O'Connell and Blur
Blur (band)
Blur is an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing...
guitarist Graham Coxon
Graham Coxon
Graham Leslie Coxon is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter. He came to prominence as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of rock band Blur, and is also a critically acclaimed solo artist, having recorded seven solo albums...
were also involved), the song was based on the Sham 69 hit "Hurry Up Harry", with the lyrics "We're going down the pub", changed to "We're going to win the cup!" The resulting single, "Hurry Up England
Hurry Up England
"Hurry Up England - The People's Anthem" is a charity single by English punk rock band Sham 69, featuring Graham Coxon on guitar. The single - a somewhat opportunistic re-working of Sham 69's earlier hit "Hurry Up Harry", was recorded as an alternative football anthem for England's entry in the...
" reached number 10 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's first such hit in 26 years.
2006 break-up and aftermath
In late 2006, Sham 69 broke up, and Dave Parsons stated his wish to independently continue as 'Sham 69'. On January 26, 2007, BBC NewsBBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
announced that Sham 69 had split because of a bitter fallout between Pursey and Parsons. NME reported that a statement released by Parsons included the message: "Sham 69 have left Jimmy Pursey on the eve of their 30th anniversary. The band had become increasingly fed up with Jimmy's lack of interest in playing live and continually letting down both promoters and fans by pulling out of gigs at the last moment". Parsons and Whitewood continued Sham 69 with Tim V on vocals and Rob Jefferson on bass. This line-up performed tours of the United States, played at many punk festivals
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
across Europe, and released the album, Hollywood Hero
Hollywood Hero
Hollywood Hero is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 2007 . This is the first Sham 69 album without the original vocalist Jimmy Pursey.-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons unless noted...
, in August 2007. Rob Jefferson (bass) has since left Sham 69 and has been replaced by the former U.K. Subs member Alan Campbell. In 2009 Sham 69 was the first major punk band to tour China. Their new album 'Who Killed Joe Public' was released in Autumn 2010 by One Media Publishing.
2011 on
In May 2011 Dave Parsons stated on his website that he had disbanded Sham 69, although this is disputed by the remaining members of the line up. On July 18 2011 Jimmy Pursey announced on TwitterTwitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
the re-formation of the original lineup - Jimmy Pursey, Dave Parsons, Dave Tregunna and Mark Cain.
On 4th August The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
ran an article regarding a punk compilation album for the benefit of the National Trust who will be selling the album at its gift shops and online to fund conservation work on its historic homes and ancient landscapes. Pursey described it as "the most Tupperware bit of nonsense I have ever heard in my life." He added: "We are so frightened of what we are looking at ahead of us that we are digging trenches in nostalgia. We are just standing our ground and not letting the future affect us".
1976
- Jimmy PurseyJimmy PurseyJimmy Pursey is an English singer and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the English punk rock band, Sham 69 from 1976 to 1980, and from 1986 to 2006.-Biography:...
: vocals - Neil Harris: lead guitar
- Johnny Goodfornothing: rhythm guitar
- Albie Slider (Albert Maskell): bass
- Billy Bostik: drums
1977-1979
- Jimmy Pursey: vocals
- Dave Parsons: guitar
- Dave Tregunna: bass
- Mark Cain: drums
1979-1980
- Jimmy Pursey: vocals
- Dave Parsons: guitar
- Dave Tregunna: bass
- Ricky Goldstein: drums
1986-2006
- Jimmy Pursey: vocals
- Dave Parsons: guitar
- Andy Prince: bass (1988–1991)
- Mat Sargent: bass (2001–2006)
- Sonny Boy Williamson: drums (1988)
- Ian Whitewood: drums (1986-
2007-2011
- Tim V: vocals
- Dave Parsons: guitar
- Rob "Zee" Jefferson: bass (2007–2009)
- Al Campbell: bass
- Ian Whitewood: drums
Albums
| Title | Date of Release | UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
|---|---|---|
| Tell Us the Truth Tell Us the Truth Tell Us the Truth is an album released in 1978 by punk band Sham 69. The first side of the album is recorded live, as the other is recorded in studio. Tell Us The Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout" on the live side of the album. The album charted at #25 in UK... |
1978 | 25 |
| That's Life That's Life (Sham 69 album) That's Life is a concept album released in 1978 by English punk rock band, Sham 69. The album had two hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" reaching chart position 10 in UK and "Angels With Dirty Faces", reaching 19 the same year. The album reached position 27, bettering the previous album Tell Us The... |
27 | |
| The Adventures of the Hersham Boys The Adventures of the Hersham Boys The Adventures of the Hersham Boys is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1979. It's their most successful album to date, charting at #8 in the UK... |
1979 | 8 |
| The Game The Game (Sham 69 album) The Game is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1980 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons unless noted# "The Game" - 3:00# "Human Zoo" - 2:50# "Lord of the Flies" - 3:09... |
1980 | - |
| Volunteer Volunteer (album) Volunteer is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1988 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons# "Outside the Warehouse" - 4:13# "Wicked Tease" - 2:49# "Wallpaper" - 3:48# "Mr... |
1988 | - |
| Information Libre Information Libre Information Libre is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1991 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons unless noted# "Break on Through " - 2:47... |
1991 | - |
| Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1995 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey unless noted# "Listen Up" - 4:17# "Girlfriend" - 3:59... |
1995 | - |
| The A Files The A Files The A Files is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1997 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Dave Parsons# "Blackpool" - 2:01# "Geoffrey Thomas" - 3:09# "Loudmouth" - 2:09# "I'm Mad" - 3:02# "14 Years" - 3:03# "Mary's Sofa" - 2:58... |
1997 | - |
| Direct Action: Day 21 Direct Action: Day 21 Direct Action: Day 21 is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 2001 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons unless noted# "99% 2000" - 4:04# "Direct Action" - 2:57# "Mad as a Cow" - 3:03... |
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| Hollywood Hero Hollywood Hero Hollywood Hero is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 2007 . This is the first Sham 69 album without the original vocalist Jimmy Pursey.-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons unless noted... (U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ) |
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| Western Culture (UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... / Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting... ) |
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Singles
| Date of issue | A-side A-side and B-side A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or... |
B-side A-side and B-side A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or... |
Label and catalogue number | Album Album An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album... |
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| October 1977 | "I Don't Wanna" | "Red London" / "Ulster" | Step Forward SF 4 |
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| January 1978 | "Borstal Breakout" | "Hey Little Rich Boy" | Polydor Polydor Records Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone... 2058 966 |
Tell Us The Truth Tell Us the Truth Tell Us the Truth is an album released in 1978 by punk band Sham 69. The first side of the album is recorded live, as the other is recorded in studio. Tell Us The Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout" on the live side of the album. The album charted at #25 in UK... |
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| April 1978 | "Angels With Dirty Faces" | "Cockney Kids are Innocent" | Polydor 2059 023 |
That's Life That's Life (Sham 69 album) That's Life is a concept album released in 1978 by English punk rock band, Sham 69. The album had two hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" reaching chart position 10 in UK and "Angels With Dirty Faces", reaching 19 the same year. The album reached position 27, bettering the previous album Tell Us The... |
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| July 1978 | "If the Kids Are United If the Kids Are United "If the Kids Are United" is a song by Sham 69. The single, backed by the B-side "Sunday Morning Nightmare", was a success and reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart on July 1978... " |
"Sunday Morning Nightmare" | Polydor 2059 05 |
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| October 1978 | "Hurry Up Harry" | "No Entry" | Polydor POSP 7 |
That's Life That's Life (Sham 69 album) That's Life is a concept album released in 1978 by English punk rock band, Sham 69. The album had two hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" reaching chart position 10 in UK and "Angels With Dirty Faces", reaching 19 the same year. The album reached position 27, bettering the previous album Tell Us The... |
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| March 1979 | "Questions and Answers" | "Gotta Survive" (live) / "With a Little Help from My Friends" | Polydor POSP 27 |
The Adventures of the Hersham Boys The Adventures of the Hersham Boys The Adventures of the Hersham Boys is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1979. It's their most successful album to date, charting at #8 in the UK... |
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| July 1979 | "Hersham Boys" | "I Don't Wanna" (live) / "Tell Us The Truth" (live) | Polydor POSP 64 |
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| October 1979 | "You're a Better Man Than I" | "Give a Dog a Bone" | Polydor POSP 82 |
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| March 1980 | "Tell The Children" | "Jack" | Polydor POSP 136 |
The Game The Game (Sham 69 album) The Game is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1980 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons unless noted# "The Game" - 3:00# "Human Zoo" - 2:50# "Lord of the Flies" - 3:09... |
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| June 1980 | "Unite and Win" | "I'm a Man" | Polydor 2059 259 |
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| July 1987 | "Rip and Tear" | "The Great American Slowdown" | Legacy LGY 69 |
Volunteer Volunteer (album) Volunteer is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1988 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons# "Outside the Warehouse" - 4:13# "Wicked Tease" - 2:49# "Wallpaper" - 3:48# "Mr... |
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| February 1988 | "Outside the Warehouse" | "Outside the Warehouse" (version) | Legacy LGY 71 |
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| March 1993 | "Uptown" | "Borstal Breakout" | C.M.P. |
Information Libre Information Libre Information Libre is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1991 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons unless noted# "Break on Through " - 2:47... |
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| October 1993 | "Action Time & Vision" | "Bosnia" / "Hey Little Rich Boy" / "Reggae Giro" | C.M.P. CMCCD 002 |
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| 1995 | "Girlfriend" | N/K | Red Cat | Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1995 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Jimmy Pursey unless noted# "Listen Up" - 4:17# "Girlfriend" - 3:59... |
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| 1996 | "Swampy" | N/K | Cleopatra Cleopatra Records Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label.- History :Founded in 1992 by Brian Perera, it specializes in gothic rock, hard rock, heavy metal and reissues of out-of-print music... |
The A Files The A Files The A Files is an album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1997 .-Tracklisting:All songs by Dave Parsons# "Blackpool" - 2:01# "Geoffrey Thomas" - 3:09# "Loudmouth" - 2:09# "I'm Mad" - 3:02# "14 Years" - 3:03# "Mary's Sofa" - 2:58... |
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| 2006 | "Hurry Up England Hurry Up England "Hurry Up England - The People's Anthem" is a charity single by English punk rock band Sham 69, featuring Graham Coxon on guitar. The single - a somewhat opportunistic re-working of Sham 69's earlier hit "Hurry Up Harry", was recorded as an alternative football anthem for England's entry in the... " |
N/K | Parlophone Parlophone Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which... |
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Compilations
- The First, the Best and the LastThe First, the Best and the LastThe First, the Best and the Last is a compilation album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1980 right after their disbandment.-Tracklisting:#"Borstal Breakout"#"Hey Little Rich Boy"#"Angels With Dirty Faces"...
(1980) - Kings & QueensKings & Queens (Sham 69 album)Kings & Queens is a compilation album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1993 .Not really a compilation,includes two unreleased Tracks, all the other titles are new versions from 1993....
(1993) - Lords of Oi! (1997)
- The Punk Singles Collection: 1977-1980 (1998)
- Laced Up Boots and Corduroys (2000)
- Teenage Kicks (4 April 2005)
- The Original Punk Album (2007)
- Punk 77/2007 30th Anniversary (2007)
- If The Kids Are United - The Very Best of Sham 69 (2004)
- The Complete Collection: 3-disc' (2004)
Live
- Live and Loud!!Live and Loud!!Live and Loud!! is the first live album by punk band Sham 69, recorded in 1979 and released in 1987 .-Tracklisting:#"Angels with Dirty Faces"#"Tell Us the Truth"#"Questions and Answers"#"Joey's on the Street"#"Borstal Breakout"...
(1987) - The Complete Sham 69 LiveThe Complete Sham 69 LiveThe Complete Sham 69 Live is a live album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1989 .-Tracklisting:# "Hurry up Harry" - 2:36# "I Don't Wanna" - 1:53# "If the Kids Are United" - 3:26# "Borstal Breakout" - 3:03...
(1989) - Live at the Roxy ClubLive at the Roxy ClubLive at the Roxy Club is a live album by punk band Sham 69, recorded at the Roxy and released in 1990 .-Tracklisting:# "Rip Off" - 2:03# "Ulster Boy" - 2:51# "Borstal Breakout" - 2:11# "Everybody's Innocent" - 2:19...
(1990) - Live in ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
(1996) - Live at CBGBCBGBCBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the...
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