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1979 single by Sham 69
"Hersham Boys"
Single by Sham 69
from the album The Adventures of the Hersham Boys
B-side
"I Don't Wanna (live)"/"Tell Us The Truth (live)"[1]
Released
26 July 1979 (1979-07-26)
Recorded
12 February 1978, June 1979
Genre
Punk rock
Length
3:25 (7" single edit) 4:46 (album version)
Label
Polydor (POSP 64)
Songwriter(s)
Jimmy Pursey, Dave Guy Parsons
Producer(s)
Peter Wilson, Jimmy Pursey
Sham 69 singles chronology
"Questions and Answers" (1979)
"Hersham Boys" (1979)
"You're a Better Man Than I" (1979)
"Hersham Boys" is a single released by English punk rock band Sham 69 in 1979 from their third studio album The Adventures of the Hersham Boys. It was the band's biggest and most well-known hit, peaking at number six on the UK Singles Chart and at nine on the Irish Singles Chart. This success was despite the song's poor review in pop magazine Smash Hits; music journalist David Hepworth described the song as "A tired, hollow effort struggling between weary attempts at rabble-rousing and blush-making pseudo-Springsteen 'street' songs that reek of desperation and contract fulfilling. As empty self-satisfied a record as anything they supposedly set out to replace".[2] The song is included on live and compilation albums. Two live tracks, "I Don't Wanna (live)" and "Tell Us The Truth (live)" appear as b-sides on this single, recorded in 1978. In the music video the sign that Pursey, the rest of Sham 69 and a young boy are sitting next to is the sign for Hersham Road.
^"Sham 69 - Hersham Boys (Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
^Hepworth, David (1979) "SHAM 69: Hersham Boys", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd, 4–17 October 1979, p.29
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