Sham 69 - Angels With Dirty Faces - Top Of The Pops - 1978

[devinemadne55]

Brilliant, that says it all,woos on top of the pops then?????

[TheSwitchCleaner1978]

COWELL IS A HUMAN PARASITE FEASTING OF THE WORKING CLASS LIKE THE REST OF THE TRASH WITHIN HIS GROUP OF MORONS.HAVE A GOOD SATURDAY NIGHT, IF YOU CAN

[sausagepilot]

makes me want to leap about like a lunatic but i'm a lazy bastard so I proberly wont.

[ParagramTree]

Why is Jimmy Pursey singing with a cockney accent? He comes from Hersham near Walton on Thames in Surrey about 22 miles from the east end of London and no one around there speaks with anything like a cockney accent.

[rabsmiff]

O'Im a reb-bel, top of the lay-bell!!!

[jayrox40]

this is real music!!

[dharmashooter]

Sounds like Nicki Tesco from the Members. Most these b punk bands sounded the same. Pub rock. There's only one great punk band: The Sex Pistols. The rest were followers.

[thenewfella611]

@dharmashooter it sounds to me like you dont know a damn thing about punk rock.

[dharmashooter]

@thenewfella611 Yeah, probably cause I played for the Clash.

[555Nato]

This music with heart !!

[neil73]

0:06 - Eyebrow action, almost to Roger Moore standards.

[lewisner]

Pursey had great stage presence.It's a wonder he didn't make it big as an actor.

[deeder2000]

Were these guys playing live cos the guitars are plugged in and JP sang to all the words so I can't tell if it was lip synch'd? Very energetic peformance!

[jayrox40]

@deeder2000 the vocals are definitely live.

[deeder2000]

Were these guys playing live cos the guitars are plugged in and JP sang to all the words so I can't tell if it was lip synch'd?

[TheGolfpunk69]

This is Sham 69 on their first totps. Remember seeing it all these years ago first time round. The best band ever. Jimmy Pursey is the greatest frontman and him and Dave Parsons together were Sham 69. However things change and music goes on.....But no Jimmy Pursey = NO SHAM 69!

[yorkie6687]

Fuck Cowell, he has destroyed Englisc music the cunt!!!!

[modsheff1]

@yorkie6687 well said! ......Cowell is a 24 carat bellend!

[goggles763]

@yorkie6687 Yeah but Jimmy Pursesnatcher was a knob who never deserved to get where he did

[fatpizzaman]

@yorkie6687 not so much destroyed it, as much as put it into hibernation.

[HairyBallSack5]

id 69 all those shams.

[Feisty1967]

You'd never get a record like this today. The music industry has become far too capitalist and commercialised. Can you imagine Simon Cowell signing them up? It is people like him who have destroyed the passion, energy and creativity of British pop music. And what has replaced it? Sodding Westlife, Michael Buble and Strictly Come Dancing. Btw, I am female.

[Chaoitcme]

@Feisty1967 There are many records with this energy out there these days. They are not on large record labels but music like this is around.

[sinobrit40]

@Feisty1967

its a industry, all about teen bopper pop, boy or girls bands, I stopped listening years ago to be honest as its just "fast food pop" , no substance ,no meaning, but seems the ipod,mp5 generation like it shallow and meaningless.

Generation "s" I call them.

[madcat1s]

@Feisty1967

yes all we got now is people that mime to songs dress up please bring back ut british songs and groups

[MrTrotskysGhost]

@Feisty1967 You must be joking, this was as commercialised as 1978 got, skinhead band with no skinheads? WTF is that all about? Extremely poor immitation of The Clash. I am afraid capitalism and its corporate influence is a lot older than you realise.........sadly

[dicked696969]

@Feisty1967

Listen to Sharks :)

[totalstranga]

my favorite Sham 69 song. The boys didn't disappoint with their performance either

[Terrra91]

Jimmy is a fuckin incredible frontman

[jjburnel]

This isn't live . . .Pursey has a live mic but the band is playing along to a studio track recorded 'live' before the broadcast. See the backing vocals on the chorus (but only Pursey is singing) and the guitar solo that starts at minute 2 with a second guitar backing it . . .but there's only one guitarist!

NOT a live performance.

[roddy76to86]

I'm afraid your wrong about Top Of The Pops, they virtually always insisted on the acts on the the show miming. I only remember two playing live: this one, and New Order playing "Blue Monday". I'm not sure how they got away with it, they just must have been very persuasive !

One of the reasons the Clash never appeared on Top Of The Pops was because they insisted on playing live. But they probably weren't very subtle with their persuasion !

[PaulBriden]

@roddy76to86 Running Free by Iron Maiden was performed live,

[roddy76to86]

@PaulBriden

Ok. What year would that have been do you know ?

[PaulBriden]

@roddy76to86 I believe it was either 78 or 79.

[jayrox40]

@roddy76to86 Marc Bolan performed I LOVE TO BOOGIE totally live in 1976 on totp and you can tell it is a true live performance.

[JimmyDFFDBorneo]

I just found out there's a Sum 41 song of the same name. Depressing.

[palmamod]

@Gyphia plus, most of the bands on TOTP in the 80s were total shite. Think Boy George and all that

[stoprejectingmynames]

Awesome old punk song.

[gillianruby]

fanfxxxxintastic!

[roddy76to86]

This was one of the very few times a band were allowed to play live on "Top Of The Pops". Not sure how they got away with it, but one of the reasons was so that Jimmy Pursey could say hello to his Mum with his line "Who's on Top Of The Pops then, eh ?!"

[001Nigel]

Yes this takes me back to my youth when music was fresh and energetic, not like all the manufactured trash that's going about nowadays, i must be getting old.

[vealshanker]

um. yeah. Sham 69 TOTALLY RULES!!!

[coshthedriver78]

takes me back,excellent stuff.

[Goatlord1970]

Rules!

[jack00008]

OOOS ON TOP A THE POPS THEN EH????

[69ihjertet]

That Crowd is a bloody pisstake!

[soiyamoto]

yea, they couldnyt play nowhere because of the skinheads with their leopard skin hair, bunch of mindeless mugs spoiling it for every1 but long time ago now was all fun at the time

[millwallpaul76]

Jimmy Pursey what a mug .

[EoghanRickard]

lol its more exciting than you tubing, "how can they be so still", lol.

[llandudnoboy]

@EoghanRickard

They are prabably waiting for Pans People to come on stage.

Maybe they were told to mellow when the Sham were on.

No fights or angst just behave yourself or else.

That's the management talking.

[cpunctn]

Friggin' amazing! How the hell can the audience be so still???

[guffley]

because punk was looked down on .....sad but true !

[80sOGRE]

accually sham 69 had real trouble getting away from skinhead following and they became the media scapgoats for the rise of violence associated with skins at the time, blamed for inciteing race hate when all they were was east end punk but there was a fine line due to fact Oi was east end rather than west end ( first wave full of art school types) they were football fanatics, working class and proud to be working class. kind of people who dont telling you theyll hit you, they just do it.

[guffley]

Went to see them on fri night in manchester,was impressed by the new singer,was his own man and not trying to copy jp. he kept giving me the mic during the songs ! loved it and rated it as one of the best gigs ive been to in 30 years (thats a suprise to me)

[fatpizzaman]

@guffley that was what made punk so great at the time, just like glam rock, rock'n'roll and R&B before it.

[DoogeMeister]

The night after they appeared on TOTP doing this song they played at The Harlsden Roxy in North London. An amazing show that had Girlschool and Patrick Fitzgerald as support.

[PunkCrustMan]

Angels with dirty faces

Angels from nowhere places

Kids like me and you!