"Thats Life" was the greatest concept album ever made in my opinion. Spoke directly to a generation that was ignored and neglected criminally by the state.

I remember this, Arena was brilliant. Back when the BBC was ours

Haven't seen this in full in donkey's year's. Blinding upload. Wish it was 1979 again! Never realised back then how good we had it music wise.

Such a fuckin great band - I'd kill for something new as real as this. Not just the message, but the music - the melody, the beat, the guitars, the fuckin delivery. Fuckin tops. Long live them Shammies

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?” ― Tennessee Williams.

Watched original transmission, first time I've seen since. Love Sham then and now. Jimmy you are a legend .

I used to love Sham 69, That's Life was one of my favourite albums, I knew it off by heart. I never knew there was a documentary about it. I used to imagine the characters to all the naration in the album, but now here it is in real life - Fantastic. Thanks for the uplaod!

Sham 69 are so freaking great, Hurry up Harry.

My mates older brother had the 'That's Life" album and borrowed it to me.Listened to it every morning before school for about a fortnight.Informed me about the adult world, love that LP xxx

Whatever Jimmy is or isnt is meaningless,as a young punk when they were on Top of the Pops singing 'angels with dirty faces,kids you like kids like me',i felt he was talking to me, a nothing, living on a shitty council estate in Yorkshire.Jim did care and wore his heart on his sleeve,the bottom line is they made some fucking great records when we needed them.Saw Jim and the boys in Leeds a few months ago and they were as good as ever.

I bought most of their UK records through late 78/early 79 Have em all still !!!. I still remember the fucking amazing energy of the live side of Tell Us the Truth . Maybe not classy but A F N Mazing .

little lad on stage loved it, brilliant

Fantastic upload! Not seen it since it was originally aired..I'm an old man now but still love it!

Thanks for uploading this! A truly inspirational band.

Thanx for posting this i have not seen this since it was originally broadcast and have been looking for it everywhere, great to see it again.

Seeing all the pubs there in the vid,thats was one of the best years of the pub trade,now it isnt 90% are gone.

I've still got That's life & tell us the truth, and one of the highlight of all the punk bands i saw back in the 70's in my mid-teens was Sham at bradford Uni, i can still remember it like yesterday. Jimmy was an underated performer and songwriter with some great lyrics, and although it's a bit off to hear he's still singing 'borstal breakout' at almost 70yo, he's been there, done it and got the t-shirts, so go on my son....

Fantastic post, not seen this since it was first broadcast. Great memories.

Great band amazing how young some fans were back then ! they look like 11 years old.

Great insight of britain in the late 70s..fkn great innocent days...20years on the uk as we knew it has left us

The irony of Sham 69 was that their videos and appearances on programmes like Top of the Pops had a cartoonish quality to them, whilst their gigs had a reputation for violence. The choruses of Hersham Boys and Hurry Up Harry ended up becoming school playground chants.

Thanks for posting this. Been looking for this vid for years. F great the That's Life Album. Always thought Pursey was good vaue for money. Nic one

Love Sham 69. First band I ever saw at Glasgow appolo. He was singing, "what ave we got, we got you" Loads of cockney skins and Glasgow punks. Real life. No light shows and mincing choreographed dance routines. Just brilliant guitar riffs, drums, and lyrics. Inspired everyone I know to this day to play an instrument. JP is a good man. Fell in love with London because of them and moved.

Wow. Thanks. This is a special bit of time. Again. Thanks!!!

I remember buying That's Life and thought it was amazing & really different & creative for the time...

Great memories...Great album..Thanks.

Jimmy Pursey was an inspiration to me, gave me a real moral and social conscience, he was real, had soul and truly believed in what he was doing. To this day I would trust him over many fake people in this world. The fact is he was involved in some really great music, his solo album Imagination Camouflage is an overlooked and underestimated gem, unfortunately never released on CD to my knowledge.

Bloody hell I had this album on tape used to play it at school dinner times then I got the l.p then I still got the c.d download lp of the internet this has been with me for at least 40 years and still listening to it

SHAM 69 saw them in 14 and 15 with Jimmy. My child hood right here. SHAM ARMY

One of my fave bands.

Jimmy spoke for us which we can relate too

It's funny, I met Grant, the guy who plays the lead role and who is the voice between the tracks on the album Sham 69 'That's Life' album it happened at a Paul Weller concert in Paris a few years ago, I was really amazed to hear that so familiar voice that I had heard so much on the LP, it was almost like meeting a Rock Star for me ha ha! He was a funny guy, a pure Cockney who had made ​​the trip with his mates for the Paul Weller show (apparently they were quite good friends with Paulio) , we ended up pissed drinking together at a little bar next to the venue...

Need more people like Jim in the world.

Sham where Brilliant , at the time , 4 herbert's from Hersham made a living at the comic book level of Punk . does anyone remember Jimmy doin' his dancing to poetry at the Batcave . . . funniest thing ever , someone please find a clip , Please . Still Punky after all these years :)

Can still remember being 1 of 200 kids seeing these boys at the bridge house pub in canning town about 1979 it was a private gig . I lived in new barn st it was only up the road a bit 👍

Brilliant Thanks for sharing

Ha, what memories! A great band.

Great documentary. Never seen it before. A really POSITIVE message for punk and Sham 69 in particular. Shame that the audio drops for the music cos of the faulty videotape. Anyway, I remember at the time people slagging off Jimmy Pursey but looking at this, his heart was in the right place. As for how things were and how things are now, the kids from poor families still have the same things to be angry about but there's no gig to go to to let it all out. No band or music to follow that speaks for them. Punk had that going for it...uniting people. What do they have now?

great memories of a young age!

In 1993 in Poland the reality was even more pessimistic. Then I heard Sham firstly. I love the band, yeah actually the two bands, ever since

talented band,"thats life" super album!

Jimmy Pursey, such class and stamina! Working class Punk hero!

Little did they know: 25 years later their would be no England anymore...

My teenage years, what a time!

When I was 9 my 7 year old brother used to make our blue bunny, black cat and Snoopy sing Hurry Up Harry. He used to make them kind of pogo....We had very cool and raucous toys.

Feck me! I was exhausted just watching Grant get to work. Great times though.

I love London and I'm a geordie bloke xxx

Sham 69. Was a good rock band. They had more going for them. But outbreaks of violence marred their progress.

This is superb

great!!!!!!

Back when we had honest attitude

Self fulfilling prophecies. Anyone who was a teenager in the mid 70s lived through special times

There were two types of punk bands and they had their own audiences. There was the art school type and the working class type.

The lad in this looks like a young Paul weller

The bad audio just kills this!

Shame the NF and BM messed it all up. Fantastic band who in my opinion were severely under rated at the time and ever since. Some of the best "Sing along Anthems" of the time. Always remember an advert on UK TV for (I think) Radion washing detergent (made by Unilever as a Tide competitor in bright orange bottle) clearly playing "if the kids are united" . That being said, I read the Cockney Rejects book and some of the Pistols stuff and they said JP was a complete Muppet. Who knows, 1978 was along time ago.

At 24 minutes Jimmy provides a good example of what I would later call the 'double negative'.

Great band

The difference is, that Oi! and real Punk don't need Stars! Realize that their is no Security or a Ditch between Band and audience! Furthermore at the 70s at working the opprission was much bigger. Nowadays you got flextime and you don't have to be there at a moment just be there 7 hours (yes I know 0 will be better ;-) ).

There's a rumour going 'round Hersham that Sham are breaking up... Well that must have taken 2 minutes to circulate from the donkeys in the fields by the River Mole to the chip shop at the 'Halfway'

Pursey the legend simple as.

my dad starts the fight in this lol

I met Grant once back in the 80’s and he told me Sham stands for Skinheads are meaty!

Anyone know where i can find the version of tell us the truth with the organ? Is it only live?

what does he say about Public Image Limited at 33:40 ?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckk! Great recording man!!

Love to know know who the kid is that keeps jumpin on stage?

Here's the birth of Oi!...

Fair enough, yeah Pursey was naive and a phoney. BUT...they had some great singalong tracks which still sound good today. I was a skin in the early 80s and Sham plus 2 Tone got me into it. Plus they did help inspire the Rejects, Business, 4-skins, etc (all other bands I like)

Grange Hill's Alan Hargreaves wading down to the stage.

Sham army for life

3:41 Day Tripper - lol - Punk or not you can`t escape The Beatles!

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Massive nod to the Small Faces

IMMEDIATE You Tube ads - unbearable.

these guys are real

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I expect Grant Fleming has got a great story to tell - mod revivalist, Sham roadie, member of Kidz Next Door / Terrible Twins, ICF casual turned successful photographer for Primal Scream. Though maybe he wants to leave some of his past behind.

percy lives in caravan now addiction sad really

Oh yeah Sham69 concerts... if you're in the wrong place you realise you're not wearing braces to twang back at the braces being twanged towards you, you get beaten up, in a friendly way but some of them get carried away and throw real punches, and then it all becomes a brawl. Every time, why I stopped going

I'm sure I'm not the only American that thought that every bloke that went to see a punk band in the late 70s would be dressed like punks with spiked hair, ripped t-shirts and dog collars. Stupid mistake on my part.

Jimmy trusted the kids ...., and they let him down unfortunately

another traditional olde english pub !

'double negative' at 32/33 minutes too

grant flemmings dad was bob flemming from the fast show

its not where you come from its where your at joe strummer had guilt about his upper class public schooling but he knew what he wanted to say sham did kids itsan anthem we could all understand life is an album we could understand unlike tommy or quadrephenia so credit it where its due sham 69 are a great band

Average age at a Sham show looks to be about 13

Jimmy's fuckin funny, he actually sees himself as some kind of guru in this. Comical to watch now, different times no one gives a fuck now

yea punk classic! 4:06 family life

23:00 yep it's like 1984.

Londons answer to detoit

They still ain't told the truth!

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not everyone from hersham is like them fortunately...

I remember the N.M.E review of Hurry Up Harry, it stated words to the effect, that the single contained the sound of possibly the most moronic human voice ever committed to vinyl...

Proper crowd... disenchanted kids...not hoity-toity posers

jimmy persery didnt like to drink didnt like to fight didnt get his homework right working class kids the last reosort

Grant Fleming Top Lad!

this is about kids like you and me..your 25..lol you ever been borstal? no but we feel those kids pain.Man they sucked