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Hersham Boys
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Wikipedia article
"'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".Hepworth, David (1979) "SHAM 69: Hersham Boys", 'Smash Hits', EMAP National Publications Ltd, 417 October 1979, p.29 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.
Track listing (7 inch)
;Side one
# "Hersham Boys" - 3:25
;Side two
# "I Don't Wanna (live)" - 2:06
# "Tell Us The Truth (live)" - 2:06
Track listing (12 inch)
;Side one
# "Hersham Boys (long version)" - 4:46
;Side two
# "I Don't Wanna (live)" - 2:06
# "Rip Off (Live)" - 2:43
# "I'm A Man, I'm A Boy (Live)" - 2:10
# "Tell Us The Truth (live)" - 2:06
References
Category:1979 singles
Category:1979 songs
Category:Sham 69 songs
Category:Polydor Records singles
Category:Songs written by Dave Guy Parsons
Category:Songs written by Jimmy Pursey
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