Sham 69
After the dirt from the first Punk explosion settled, every public school graduate and art school student began to drive up the price of bondage pants and leather jackets. Just as Punk began to go the way of the trendy and the beautiful, Jimmy Pursey and Sham 69 arrived to return Punk to its street-and-brickwall roots. Their simple, stripped-down Punk never ventured beyond three chords as Pursey led a chorus of enthused, shouting followers (soon known as the Sham Army) through songs that hailed leftist, working class ideology and youthful optimism. The leaders of what became the Oi! movement, Sham 69's shows became increasingly interrupted by pervasive violence -- the Sham Army had lived up to their name -- until a now-legendary show when a frustrated Pursey burst into tears onstage as the audience tossed bottles and did battle with one another. The band disbanded soon thereafter, but not before they had released more hit Punk singles than any band in the U.K. -- including the Sex Pistols. They reformed in 1986 with a mellower version of their original sound.
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