"Thats Life" was the greatest concept album ever made in my opinion. Spoke directly to a generation that was ignored and neglected criminally by the state.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.
"Tell us the Truth" was the first LP I bought - rather than got as a birthday present/X-mas gift - with my own money back in -81, still as good as it was back then!
I used to love Sham 69, That's Life was one of my favourite albums, I knew it off by heart. I never knew there was a documentary about it. I used to imagine the characters to all the naration in the album, but now here it is in real life - Fantastic. Thanks for the uplaod!
@@crackercookies Good Question! well they aren't my favourite any more. Soon after I discovered proper rock and favoured Judas Priest, iron maiden, UFO, rainbow, Def leopard, Saxon etc. Then got into old blues music. I still enjoy a pit of punk. But not so much.
Such a fuckin great band - I'd kill for something new as real as this. Not just the message, but the music - the melody, the beat, the guitars, the fuckin delivery. Fuckin tops. Long live them Shammies
Yeah, remember seeing this 1st time but thanks for putting this up. The 4 Nations loved an needed this but it helped raise profile for London youth. Obviously thats what Sham were for.
My mates older brother had the 'That's Life" album and borrowed it to me.Listened to it every morning before school for about a fortnight.Informed me about the adult world, love that LP xxx
I've still got That's life & tell us the truth, and one of the highlight of all the punk bands i saw back in the 70's in my mid-teens was Sham at bradford Uni, i can still remember it like yesterday. Jimmy was an underated performer and songwriter with some great lyrics, and although it's a bit off to hear he's still singing 'borstal breakout' at almost 70yo, he's been there, done it and got the t-shirts, so go on my son....
I bought most of their UK records through late 78/early 79 Have em all still !!!. I still remember the fucking amazing energy of the live side of Tell Us the Truth . Maybe not classy but A F N Mazing .
Can still remember being 1 of 200 kids seeing these boys at the bridge house pub in canning town about 1979 it was a private gig . I lived in new barn st it was only up the road a bit 👍
Love Sham 69. First band I ever saw at Glasgow appolo. He was singing, "what ave we got, we got you" Loads of cockney skins and Glasgow punks. Real life. No light shows and mincing choreographed dance routines. Just brilliant guitar riffs, drums, and lyrics. Inspired everyone I know to this day to play an instrument. JP is a good man. Fell in love with London because of them and moved.
Bloody hell I had this album on tape used to play it at school dinner times then I got the l.p then I still got the c.d download lp of the internet this has been with me for at least 40 years and still listening to it
Great documentary. Never seen it before. A really POSITIVE message for punk and Sham 69 in particular. Shame that the audio drops for the music cos of the faulty videotape. Anyway, I remember at the time people slagging off Jimmy Pursey but looking at this, his heart was in the right place. As for how things were and how things are now, the kids from poor families still have the same things to be angry about but there's no gig to go to to let it all out. No band or music to follow that speaks for them. Punk had that going for it...uniting people. What do they have now?
Jimmy Pursey was an inspiration to me, gave me a real moral and social conscience, he was real, had soul and truly believed in what he was doing. To this day I would trust him over many fake people in this world. The fact is he was involved in some really great music, his solo album Imagination Camouflage is an overlooked and underestimated gem, unfortunately never released on CD to my knowledge.
Whatever Jimmy is or isnt is meaningless,as a young punk when they were on Top of the Pops singing 'angels with dirty faces,kids you like kids like me',i felt he was talking to me, a nothing, living on a shitty council estate in Yorkshire.Jim did care and wore his heart on his sleeve,the bottom line is they made some fucking great records when we needed them.Saw Jim and the boys in Leeds a few months ago and they were as good as ever.
Pubert Stench That's exactly the Spirit! I'm Greek and totally relate to that kind of Spirit ('cause when you're talking on such timeless stuff and people, that's what it is really about, Spirit, good~heartedness (in the older sense) combined with courage and other things!)! Actually Sham 69 and Jimmy have always been enormously respected and strongly followed and liked in Greece! May God Bless All Children, young ones, older ones, those gone, and All!
It's funny, I met Grant, the guy who plays the lead role and who is the voice between the tracks on the album Sham 69 'That's Life' album it happened at a Paul Weller concert in Paris a few years ago, I was really amazed to hear that so familiar voice that I had heard so much on the LP, it was almost like meeting a Rock Star for me ha ha! He was a funny guy, a pure Cockney who had made the trip with his mates for the Paul Weller show (apparently they were quite good friends with Paulio) , we ended up pissed drinking together at a little bar next to the venue...
Had a goid time with him and a lad called John ?and a mob of west ham Switzerland v england 81 ?If I remember they gave a mob of Chelsea a hard time 😂,to say the least 😂
Sham where Brilliant , at the time , 4 herbert's from Hersham made a living at the comic book level of Punk . does anyone remember Jimmy doin' his dancing to poetry at the Batcave . . . funniest thing ever , someone please find a clip , Please . Still Punky after all these years :)
yeah i vaguely remember that weird slow motion poetry thing on the news in the early 80s - just about - never saw it live but i did get in the batcave a few years later - if it`s the one on brighton prom it`s footage like that that makes me realise just how shit the internet really is - just loads and loads of the same fucking stuff over and over again + mum`s best friend ; the family video library of quirky antics - it`s like being on mandrax
The irony of Sham 69 was that their videos and appearances on programmes like Top of the Pops had a cartoonish quality to them, whilst their gigs had a reputation for violence. The choruses of Hersham Boys and Hurry Up Harry ended up becoming school playground chants.
When I was 9 my 7 year old brother used to make our blue bunny, black cat and Snoopy sing Hurry Up Harry. He used to make them kind of pogo....We had very cool and raucous toys.
Shame the NF and BM messed it all up. Fantastic band who in my opinion were severely under rated at the time and ever since. Some of the best "Sing along Anthems" of the time. Always remember an advert on UK TV for (I think) Radion washing detergent (made by Unilever as a Tide competitor in bright orange bottle) clearly playing "if the kids are united" . That being said, I read the Cockney Rejects book and some of the Pistols stuff and they said JP was a complete Muppet. Who knows, 1978 was along time ago.
The difference is, that Oi! and real Punk don't need Stars! Realize that their is no Security or a Ditch between Band and audience! Furthermore at the 70s at working the opprission was much bigger. Nowadays you got flextime and you don't have to be there at a moment just be there 7 hours (yes I know 0 will be better ;-) ).
There's a rumour going 'round Hersham that Sham are breaking up... Well that must have taken 2 minutes to circulate from the donkeys in the fields by the River Mole to the chip shop at the 'Halfway'
I expect Grant Fleming has got a great story to tell - mod revivalist, Sham roadie, member of Kidz Next Door / Terrible Twins, ICF casual turned successful photographer for Primal Scream. Though maybe he wants to leave some of his past behind.
That confusing period between the wonders of glam rock and the creativity of synth pop. I'm glad this lot did not last. Thank God the New Romantics came along.
Fair enough, yeah Pursey was naive and a phoney. BUT...they had some great singalong tracks which still sound good today. I was a skin in the early 80s and Sham plus 2 Tone got me into it. Plus they did help inspire the Rejects, Business, 4-skins, etc (all other bands I like)
Your main point is well taken. But, Jimmy Pursey may have been little naive at times. But, how should that also make home a phoney?!! I emphatically disagree with the phoney assessment.
Oh yeah Sham69 concerts... if you're in the wrong place you realise you're not wearing braces to twang back at the braces being twanged towards you, you get beaten up, in a friendly way but some of them get carried away and throw real punches, and then it all becomes a brawl. Every time, why I stopped going
This band were always looked down on by the middle class music press and the media and that still goes on today. The only punk bands they were interested in were the posh ones, and that still goes on today! Still unrecognised and unappreciated. Everything changes but nothing changes! Hated the right wing following that plagued them though, ruined their legacy.
I'm sure I'm not the only American that thought that every bloke that went to see a punk band in the late 70s would be dressed like punks with spiked hair, ripped t-shirts and dog collars. Stupid mistake on my part.
Sham was never for skins and all this bollocks. They just tried to exploit his (Jimmy) potential for their own purposes, without success. Now all aged skins claimed and call him phoney... ha,ha. LIVE Sham & Jimmy forever!
Jimmy never claimed he was part of the skinhead "movement" when starting out' I think otherwise he would of shaved his head from the beginning surely he would of promoted his purpose and acted on it from the beginning. When the band started getting recognition skinheads latched on to the group, They would following the band to a concert get pissed and act like mega moronic pisshead cocks.
Sham were an Oi band actually mate. Its just that Skrewdriver called themselves an Oi band so some fans decided that all Oi bands were white power skinheads
Some kind of guru? All he's doing is speaking up for people who didn't have to chance to speak for themselves. He didn't have all the answers. But he had the opportunity to speak out. How else was he meant to do it?
its not where you come from its where your at joe strummer had guilt about his upper class public schooling but he knew what he wanted to say sham did kids itsan anthem we could all understand life is an album we could understand unlike tommy or quadrephenia so credit it where its due sham 69 are a great band
that`s a bit harsh tommy was a great metaphor for kids in the late 1960s - deaf dumb and blind, used, abused, and wanting to be rock stars - and quadrophenia, a kid with four personalities dealing with post war britain pete is an average guitarist but he`s one of the greatest late 20th century poets / songwriters and we should be proud of that - just like the US should be jim morrison and that table - i thought that was down hersham nick - i saw them in the angel last week btw - fkn excellent - almost puked at one point due to the extravagence of it all
When we die we hope to be taken and in Valhalla to awaken, Fighting for Race & Nation when we fall then we shall hear The Valkyrie Call. Hail Victory 14.
The punk movement was politically and economically naïve. There were loads of jobs in the UK in the mid-late 70s. Your class didn’t stop you getting a decent job, but lack of effort at school could. But at least then we still had factories in which the low-skilled could work. 1978 was the year of the greatest income equality in British history. In many ways the 70s were a good time and the Punk rebellion was in the wrong era. After all, soon the recession and Thatcherism would eliminate those “boring” factory jobs forever and unemployment would rise sharply. Punk never solved this contradiction but there and again it was a gimmick with no deep meaning.
+Sally Smith so, the double digit unemployment stats for young workers that reported quarterly were all a figment of the planet's imagination? Sally, be honest, did you write that post after an evening at the pub? this is youtube, and we are all family, so be honest
define jobs worth having. because being a wage-slave is not aspirational.stepping from a prison called school to one called work is nothing to be aspired to
Sally loads of money early 70s we also only had electric for 4 days of the week.Very low wages and this went on to the early 80s.sally I bet you come from a well class family
"Thats Life" was the greatest concept album ever made in my opinion. Spoke directly to a generation that was ignored and neglected criminally by the state.
Agreed. Still listen to it today.
Only concept album about winning a few quid at the bookies
Still the same today
I remember this, Arena was brilliant. Back when the BBC was ours
Haven't seen this in full in donkey's year's. Blinding upload. Wish it was 1979 again! Never realised back then how good we had it music wise.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.
"Tell us the Truth" was the first LP I bought - rather than got as a birthday present/X-mas gift - with my own money back in -81, still as good as it was back then!
I used to love Sham 69, That's Life was one of my favourite albums, I knew it off by heart.
I never knew there was a documentary about it. I used to imagine the characters to all the naration in the album, but now here it is in real life - Fantastic.
Thanks for the uplaod!
USED to love or still do?
@@crackercookies Good Question! well they aren't my favourite any more. Soon after I discovered proper rock and favoured Judas Priest, iron maiden, UFO, rainbow, Def leopard, Saxon etc. Then got into old blues music. I still enjoy a pit of punk. But not so much.
@@ElectricPylon You sad pathetic individual
Such a fuckin great band - I'd kill for something new as real as this. Not just the message, but the music - the melody, the beat, the guitars, the fuckin delivery. Fuckin tops. Long live them Shammies
Yeah, remember seeing this 1st time but thanks for putting this up. The 4 Nations loved an needed this but it helped raise profile for London youth. Obviously thats what Sham were for.
My mates older brother had the 'That's Life" album and borrowed it to me.Listened to it every morning before school for about a fortnight.Informed me about the adult world, love that LP xxx
Watched original transmission, first time I've seen since. Love Sham then and now. Jimmy you are a legend .
Fantastic upload! Not seen it since it was originally aired..I'm an old man now but still love it!
Great band amazing how young some fans were back then ! they look like 11 years old.
We werent scared or listened to anybody
Fantastic post, not seen this since it was first broadcast. Great memories.
I've still got That's life & tell us the truth, and one of the highlight of all the punk bands i saw back in the 70's in my mid-teens was Sham at bradford Uni, i can still remember it like yesterday. Jimmy was an underated performer and songwriter with some great lyrics, and although it's a bit off to hear he's still singing 'borstal breakout' at almost 70yo, he's been there, done it and got the t-shirts, so go on my son....
little lad on stage loved it, brilliant
Knew every word as well
Also tasted punk in such age :)
Wow. Thanks. This is a special bit of time. Again. Thanks!!!
Thanx for posting this i have not seen this since it was originally broadcast and have been looking for it everywhere, great to see it again.
Great memories...Great album..Thanks.
Thanks for uploading this! A truly inspirational band.
I bought most of their UK records through late 78/early 79 Have em all still !!!. I still remember the fucking amazing energy of the live side of Tell Us the Truth . Maybe not classy but A F N Mazing .
Can still remember being 1 of 200 kids seeing these boys at the bridge house pub in canning town about 1979 it was a private gig . I lived in new barn st it was only up the road a bit 👍
Brilliant Thanks for sharing
Love Sham 69. First band I ever saw at Glasgow appolo. He was singing, "what ave we got, we got you" Loads of cockney skins and Glasgow punks. Real life. No light shows and mincing choreographed dance routines. Just brilliant guitar riffs, drums, and lyrics. Inspired everyone I know to this day to play an instrument. JP is a good man. Fell in love with London because of them and moved.
Thanks for posting this. Been looking for this vid for years. F great the That's Life Album. Always thought Pursey was good vaue for money. Nic one
Great insight of britain in the late 70s..fkn great innocent days...20years on the uk as we knew it has left us
Bloody hell I had this album on tape used to play it at school dinner times then I got the l.p then I still got the c.d download lp of the internet this has been with me for at least 40 years and still listening to it
I remember buying That's Life and thought it was amazing & really different & creative for the time...
Great documentary. Never seen it before. A really POSITIVE message for punk and Sham 69 in particular. Shame that the audio drops for the music cos of the faulty videotape. Anyway, I remember at the time people slagging off Jimmy Pursey but looking at this, his heart was in the right place. As for how things were and how things are now, the kids from poor families still have the same things to be angry about but there's no gig to go to to let it all out. No band or music to follow that speaks for them. Punk had that going for it...uniting people. What do they have now?
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Jimmy Pursey was an inspiration to me, gave me a real moral and social conscience, he was real, had soul and truly believed in what he was doing. To this day I would trust him over many fake people in this world. The fact is he was involved in some really great music, his solo album Imagination Camouflage is an overlooked and underestimated gem, unfortunately never released on CD to my knowledge.
Whatever Jimmy is or isnt is meaningless,as a young punk when they were on Top of the Pops singing 'angels with dirty faces,kids you like kids like me',i felt he was talking to me, a nothing, living on a shitty council estate in Yorkshire.Jim did care and wore his heart on his sleeve,the bottom line is they made some fucking great records when we needed them.Saw Jim and the boys in Leeds a few months ago and they were as good as ever.
Pubert Stench That's exactly the Spirit! I'm Greek and totally relate to that kind of Spirit ('cause when you're talking on such timeless stuff and people, that's what it is really about, Spirit, good~heartedness (in the older sense) combined with courage and other things!)! Actually Sham 69 and Jimmy have always been enormously respected and strongly followed and liked in Greece! May God Bless All Children, young ones, older ones, those gone, and All!
Right...It may seem a bit naff now but Jim's heart was in the right place and he did make a difference to many.
Seeing all the pubs there in the vid,thats was one of the best years of the pub trade,now it isnt 90% are gone.
SHAM 69 saw them in 14 and 15 with Jimmy. My child hood right here. SHAM ARMY
It's funny, I met Grant, the guy who plays the lead role and who is the voice between the tracks on the album Sham 69 'That's Life' album it happened at a Paul Weller concert in Paris a few years ago, I was really amazed to hear that so familiar voice that I had heard so much on the LP, it was almost like meeting a Rock Star for me ha ha! He was a funny guy, a pure Cockney who had made the trip with his mates for the Paul Weller show (apparently they were quite good friends with Paulio) , we ended up pissed drinking together at a little bar next to the venue...
Hardmod Al n
ad.Chris Walford n like numb like you
To this day i didnt know the voice was Grant fleming!! Thought i was quite knowledgeable punk wise.
I was just thinking he looks like a young Weller in this film; between the period of "This Is The Modern World" and "All Mod Cons".
Had a goid time with him and a lad called John ?and a mob of west ham Switzerland v england 81 ?If I remember they gave a mob of Chelsea a hard time 😂,to say the least 😂
One of my fave bands.
Sham 69 are so freaking great, Hurry up Harry.
'urry 'army, cahme on!
great memories of a young age!
Sham where Brilliant , at the time , 4 herbert's from Hersham made a living at the comic book level of Punk . does anyone remember Jimmy doin' his dancing to poetry at the Batcave . . . funniest thing ever , someone please find a clip , Please . Still Punky after all these years :)
yeah i vaguely remember that weird slow motion poetry thing on the news in the early 80s - just about - never saw it live but i did get in the batcave a few years later - if it`s the one on brighton prom
it`s footage like that that makes me realise just how shit the internet really is - just loads and loads of the same fucking stuff over and over again + mum`s best friend ; the family video library of quirky antics - it`s like being on mandrax
Wullie i remember that well. It was a so earnest
Jimmy on Riverside dancing
Gerald Cummiskey Yeah, I remember him dancing on Riverside as well. I think he was dancing to a backing tape of "Siamese Twins" by The Cure.
@@beefheart1410 - no, The Meninblack by the Stranglers, unless he danced to more than one track.
Never seen this before. Saw them at Reading Festival with Steve Hillage playing If the kids are united. Xxx
The irony of Sham 69 was that their videos and appearances on programmes like Top of the Pops had a cartoonish quality to them, whilst their gigs had a reputation for violence. The choruses of Hersham Boys and Hurry Up Harry ended up becoming school playground chants.
Ha, what memories! A great band.
Jimmy spoke for us which we can relate too
Jimmy Pursey, such class and stamina! Working class Punk hero!
In 1993 in Poland the reality was even more pessimistic. Then I heard Sham firstly. I love the band, yeah actually the two bands, ever since
Little did they know: 25 years later their would be no England anymore...
It's been more than 25 years since the late '70s, dude, more like 42 years now.
@@kabukikommandofourthworld5266 I‘d say 2005 it was starting to show
@@sandrabecht4489 what exactly do you mean by "no England left"?
@Sandra Becht typing utter 💩
This album was conceiced & recorded in the middle of a labour government period
My teenage years, what a time!
talented band,"thats life" super album!
When I was 9 my 7 year old brother used to make our blue bunny, black cat and Snoopy sing Hurry Up Harry. He used to make them kind of pogo....We had very cool and raucous toys.
This is superb
I love London and I'm a geordie bloke xxx
Unlucky
The bad audio just kills this!
Shame the NF and BM messed it all up. Fantastic band who in my opinion were severely under rated at the time and ever since. Some of the best "Sing along Anthems" of the time. Always remember an advert on UK TV for (I think) Radion washing detergent (made by Unilever as a Tide competitor in bright orange bottle) clearly playing "if the kids are united" . That being said, I read the Cockney Rejects book and some of the Pistols stuff and they said JP was a complete Muppet. Who knows, 1978 was along time ago.
The difference is, that Oi! and real Punk don't need Stars! Realize that their is no Security or a Ditch between Band and audience! Furthermore at the 70s at working the opprission was much bigger. Nowadays you got flextime and you don't have to be there at a moment just be there 7 hours (yes I know 0 will be better ;-) ).
There were two types of punk bands and they had their own audiences. There was the art school type and the working class type.
great!!!!!!
Back when we had honest attitude
Self fulfilling prophecies. Anyone who was a teenager in the mid 70s lived through special times
When i lived in England I daw the punk sceme as a joke id get my laugh fix from top of the pops every Thursday night
Sham 69. Was a good rock band. They had more going for them. But outbreaks of violence marred their progress.
3:41 Day Tripper - lol - Punk or not you can`t escape The Beatles!
First thing you learn innit? That and a bit of Smoke On The Water.
There's a rumour going 'round Hersham that Sham are breaking up... Well that must have taken 2 minutes to circulate from the donkeys in the fields by the River Mole to the chip shop at the 'Halfway'
Sham 69 Spray Painted On A Wall In Hersham Hence Thee Moniker 🏴🇨🇮💚From Thee Appreciated🏴
The lad in this looks like a young Paul weller
Jimmy trusted the kids ...., and they let him down unfortunately
sounds like you're talking about someone else
Sham were the sound of the terraces the only voice before them was Slade.
Great band
Pursey the legend simple as.
Grange Hill's Alan Hargreaves wading down to the stage.
Here's the birth of Oi!...
my dad starts the fight in this lol
Was he acting?
I expect Grant Fleming has got a great story to tell - mod revivalist, Sham roadie, member of Kidz Next Door / Terrible Twins, ICF casual turned successful photographer for Primal Scream. Though maybe he wants to leave some of his past behind.
Life in London
Back in the 70s
Different now
Its even worse
That confusing period between the wonders of glam rock and the creativity of synth pop. I'm glad this lot did not last. Thank God the New Romantics came along.
Fair enough, yeah Pursey was naive and a phoney. BUT...they had some great singalong tracks which still sound good today. I was a skin in the early 80s and Sham plus 2 Tone got me into it. Plus they did help inspire the Rejects, Business, 4-skins, etc (all other bands I like)
Your main point is well taken. But, Jimmy Pursey may have been little naive at times. But, how should that also make home a phoney?!! I emphatically disagree with the phoney assessment.
Oh yeah Sham69 concerts... if you're in the wrong place you realise you're not wearing braces to twang back at the braces being twanged towards you, you get beaten up, in a friendly way but some of them get carried away and throw real punches, and then it all becomes a brawl. Every time, why I stopped going
At 24 minutes Jimmy provides a good example of what I would later call the 'double negative'.
Massive nod to the Small Faces
That's not true. Marriott sang one famous song with a South East accent. Other than that, they're chalk and cheese.
This band were always looked down on by the middle class music press and the media and that still goes on today. The only punk bands they were interested in were the posh ones, and that still goes on today! Still unrecognised and unappreciated. Everything changes but nothing changes! Hated the right wing following that plagued them though, ruined their legacy.
these guys are real
j en bb
Love to know know who the kid is that keeps
jumpin on stage?
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckk!
Great recording man!!
I'm sure I'm not the only American that thought that every bloke that went to see a punk band in the late 70s would be dressed like punks with spiked hair, ripped t-shirts and dog collars. Stupid mistake on my part.
Skinheads followed sham more than punks
+Les Toil Stop stereotyping people .. Punk isn't about how you look!!
+Andy newton Skinheads/Punks = Same thing
+Stevo 1971 Nah
Brieul What do you mean .... Nah? please discuss then rather than leaving a one worded reply!
Where going down the pub.
Can never unsee the bass guitar being bigger than its player
Sham was never for skins and all this bollocks. They just tried to exploit his (Jimmy) potential for their own purposes, without success. Now all aged skins claimed and call him phoney... ha,ha. LIVE Sham & Jimmy forever!
Sham were a skinheads band.They never wanted to be but thats how it ended up
+John Mcgowan and they were quite sucessfull and when they switched gears,thats when the audience turned on them
Jimmy never claimed he was part of the skinhead "movement" when starting out' I think otherwise he would of shaved his head from the beginning surely he would of promoted his purpose and acted on it from the beginning. When the band started getting recognition skinheads latched on to the group, They would following the band to a concert get pissed and act like mega moronic pisshead cocks.
Sham were an Oi band actually mate. Its just that Skrewdriver called themselves an Oi band so some fans decided that all Oi bands were white power skinheads
Those were actually the critics at NME who falsely claimed, Jimmy Pursey was "just a show business Ham". What do they know?!!
Jimmy's fuckin funny, he actually sees himself as some kind of guru in this. Comical to watch now, different times no one gives a fuck now
I dont think he saw him self as anything other than someone who tried to be there for the kids and for alot of kids,Sham exemplified that.
Some kind of guru? All he's doing is speaking up for people who didn't have to chance to speak for themselves. He didn't have all the answers. But he had the opportunity to speak out. How else was he meant to do it?
IMMEDIATE You Tube ads - unbearable.
its not where you come from its where your at joe strummer had guilt about his upper class public schooling but he knew what he wanted to say sham did kids itsan anthem we could all understand life is an album we could understand unlike tommy or quadrephenia so credit it where its due sham 69 are a great band
that`s a bit harsh
tommy was a great metaphor for kids in the late 1960s - deaf dumb and blind, used, abused, and wanting to be rock stars - and quadrophenia, a kid with four personalities dealing with post war britain
pete is an average guitarist but he`s one of the greatest late 20th century poets / songwriters and we should be proud of that - just like the US should be jim morrison
and that table - i thought that was down hersham nick - i saw them in the angel last week btw - fkn excellent - almost puked at one point due to the extravagence of it all
another traditional olde english pub !
When we die we hope to be taken and in Valhalla to awaken,
Fighting for Race & Nation when we fall then we shall hear The Valkyrie Call.
Hail Victory 14.
Top Ranking
what does he say about Public Image Limited at 33:40 ?
Think he was referring to rotten as a sell out who no longer says what he thinks.
yea punk classic!
4:06 family life
Proper crowd... disenchanted kids...not hoity-toity posers
percy lives in caravan now addiction sad really
Grant Fleming Top Lad!
What came of him?
The punk movement was politically and economically naïve. There were loads of jobs in the UK in the mid-late 70s. Your class didn’t stop you getting a decent job, but lack of effort at school could. But at least then we still had factories in which the low-skilled could work. 1978 was the year of the greatest income equality in British history. In many ways the 70s were a good time and the Punk rebellion was in the wrong era.
After all, soon the recession and Thatcherism would eliminate those “boring” factory jobs forever and unemployment would rise sharply. Punk never solved this contradiction but there and again it was a gimmick with no deep meaning.
+Sally Smith so, the double digit unemployment stats for young workers that reported quarterly were all a figment of the planet's imagination? Sally, be honest, did you write that post after an evening at the pub? this is youtube, and we are all family, so be honest
Sally you sound like someone who both hated punk and were too PC to give a shit.Take your bollocks elsewhere
define jobs worth having. because being a wage-slave is not aspirational.stepping from a prison called school to one called work is nothing to be aspired to
Sally loads of money early 70s we also only had electric for 4 days of the week.Very low wages and this went on to the early 80s.sally I bet you come from a well class family
Sally Smith very good point. Not fashionable but true
jimmy persery didnt like to drink didnt like to fight didnt get his homework right working class kids the last reosort
23:00 yep it's like 1984.
Londons answer to detoit
grant flemmings dad was bob flemming from the fast show