The original unit broke up in 1979, with frontman Jimmy Pursey moving on to pursue a solo career. The group's popularity saw them perform on the BBC’s Top of the Pops, and they appeared in the rockumentary film, D.O.A. They were one of the most successful punk bands in the United Kingdom, achieving five top 20 singles, including " If the Kids Are United" and " Hurry Up Harry". Dave Tregunna, on bass, and Mark Cain, on drums, were called in to complete the lineup for a special show in London.Sham 69 are an English punk rock band that formed in Hersham in Surrey in 1975. A meeting held between Pursey and Dave Parsons, original Sham 69 guitarist and co-writer of nearly all of the Sham repertoire with Pursey, ironed out their differences. Pursey also paints, selling his work to raise money for the Hersham Hounds greyhound sanctuary.Pursey had been due to appear as a contestant on Im a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2008, but pulled out after finding out that he would have been a late entrant to the camp and concerned that he would be portrayed as a trouble-making punk.In July 2011 Pursey made the decision to reform Sham 69 with the original lineup.
Pursey initially stated that he would be retaining the Sham 69 name, but on, he announced that to avoid confusion to fans he wanted it known that he did not want to be associated with the band still performing as Sham 69 and had formed a new band Day 21 with Mat Sargent on bass, The Rev (Towers of London and The Prodigy) on guitar, and Snell (Towers of London). NME reported that a statement released by Parsons included the message: Sham 69 have left Jimmy Pursey on the eve of their 30th anniversary. In 2006, Pursey recorded a new version of the Sham 69 hit Hurry Up Harry as an unofficial World Cup song in aid of a cancer charity, Hurry Up England was recorded with Graham Coxons band but credited to Sham 69 & the Special Assembly.On 26 January 2007, BBC News announced that the band had split because of a bitter fallout between Pursey and guitarist Parsons. Sham 69 continued to play live and record until 2006. Pursey released a fourth solo album in 1997 (Code Black).
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In 1983, a third album, Revenge is not the Password was issued on the Code Black label, and occasional releases followed until he formed a new line-up of Sham 69 in 1986 along with guitarist from the bands most successful line-up, Dave Parsons.
He then moved to Epic Records for three further singles (including Animals Have More Fun, co-written with Peter Gabriel) and second solo album Alien Orphan.
Pursey also worked as a record producer, on early releases by Cockney Rejects and Angelic Upstarts.Purseys first solo releases were on Polydor Records, the label that Sham 69 had been signed to – the Lucky Man single and Imagination Camouflage album. Pursey briefly worked with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols as Sham Pistols before the final Sham 69 split, and embarked on a solo career. The band released four albums and had six UK top 50 hits before splitting up in 1980 (after several splits in 1979 that proved to be temporary) with the violence that regularly marred their gigs taking its toll. Albie Slider was replaced shortly after by Dave Tregunna on bass. Before getting a record deal the lineup had changed with Neil Harris and Billy Bostock being replaced by Dave Parsons and Mark Cain. He formed Sham 69 in 1976, inspired by The Ramones and initially called Jimmy and the Ferrets, along with Albie Slider, Billy Bostik and Neil Harris, while employed at Wimbledon Stadium, and they rehearsed at Sliders parents pig farm, where King sometimes came to watch them. Pursey claimed that he began performing after taking the stage as a drunk fourteen-year-old at the disco and miming to Bay City Rollers and The Rolling Stones songs (miming contests were a regular event at the Hop). He was educated at Hersham House & Burhill Infants, Hersham Juniors and Rydens School, leaving aged 15 to work in a curtain shop.He was a regular attender at the local disco, the Walton Hop at the Playhouse theatre, where he met Jonathan King. His father was in the army and later worked as a plumber and his mother worked as a cinema usherette. Biography,Pursey was born in Hersham, Surrey in 1955.
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