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In 1995, Whitewood returned on drums and former Chelsea bassist Mat Sargent was recruited. Andy Prince went on to join the Magic Mushroom Band, and Whitewood was replaced on drums by Sonny Boy Williamson, who played on the Soapy Water and Mister Marmalade album and the singles 'Uptown', 'Action Time & Vision' and 'Girlfriend' The next studio album, Information Libre, has Patricia de Mayo on keyboards. The album Live at CBGB also features this line-up. In 1987, Sham 69 were resurrected with a different line-up Ian Whitewood on drums, Andy Prince on bass, Tony Hardie-Bick ('Tony Bic') on keyboards and Linda Paganelli on saxophone, releasing the album Volunteer and the singles 'Rip and Tear' and 'Outside the Warehouse'. Tregunna and Bators later recruited Nick Turner of The Barracudas and Brian James of The Damned to form Lords of the New Church. Rick Goldstein, Dave Parsons, and Dave Tregunna joined the 1980s glam punk/ gothic rock band The Wanderers with Stiv Bators of The Dead Boys.

He also became occupied with video production in London, making use of snippets of found video in an effort 'to do something really anarchic.' In 1981, Pursey collaborated with Peter Gabriel on the single 'Animals Have More Fun' which was commercially unsuccessful. For his third solo album, Revenge Is Not the Password, Pursey paid for the recording out of his own pocket in order to maintain artistic freedom. The second solo album, Alien Orphans, was recorded with CBS Records France. Pursey's first solo album was with Polydor Records, the label for which Sham 69 had recorded, but was a commercial and critical failure. Pursey worked with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols for a short time under the name Sham Pistols before moving on to a solo recording career. Like a little roulette wheel where everything we did had all of this political value to it, but it didn't make any difference because you spin the wheel and if it landed on the right number you were all right, the wrong number and you were not all right.' 'I was forced into making it, you understand? I called it The Game because that's how the music business had become to me. Pursey was enormously critical of the album, calling it 'a pile of shit' in a 1989 Flipside interview, noting:

The original incarnation of Sham 69 broke up in 1979, following the release of the band's fourth album, The Game. This was demonstrated by their third album, The Adventures of the Hersham Boys. 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.

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Sham 69 would ultimately be one of the most successful UK punk rock bands, releasing five singles that cracked the Top 20 chart in the United Kingdom. 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.

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10 in October 1978), which came from their second LP and first full studio album, That's Life. The group had further chart success with ' Hurry Up Harry' (No.

These were not included on the group's debut album, Tell Us the Truth, a mixture of live and studio recordings. 19 in May 1978) and ' If the Kids Are United' (No. Their major label debut was 'Borstal Breakout' in January 1978, followed by UK Singles Chart success with ' Angels with Dirty Faces' (reaching No. 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 concerts were plagued by violence, and the band ceased live performances after a 1979 concert at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park was broken up by National Front-supporting white power skinheads fighting and rushing the stage. The band attracted a large skinhead following ( left wing, right wing and non-political). 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 an implicit political populism. The 12 November 1976 issue of NME noted that Sham 69 was rehearsing in 1976, although only Pursey would remain from this early line-up twelve months later. secured the Athenian League title in 1969. It originally said Walton and Hersham '69 but had partly faded away, and made reference to when Walton & Hersham F.C. The band's name is said to have derived from a piece of graffiti that founder Jimmy Pursey saw on a wall.

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