Hersham Boys

"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)
Format
[2]
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)

"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. "Hersham Boys" was not a favourite at Smash Hits, with music journalist David Hepworth describing 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".[3] 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

Side one
  1. "Hersham Boys" - 3:25
Side two
  1. "I Don't Wanna (live)" - 2:06
  2. "Tell Us The Truth (live)" - 2:06

References

  1. ↑ "Sham 69 - Hersham Boys (Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Sham 69 -Hersham Boys". Discogs. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Hepworth, David (1979) "SHAM 69: Hersham Boys", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd, 4-17 October 1979, p.29


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