Jimmy Pursey

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James Timothy "Jimmy" Pursey (born February 9, 1955 in Hersham Surrey ) is a British musician. He founded Sham 69 in 1975 , was the band's songwriter and front man until 2006 and is one of the veterans of punk in Great Britain.

biography

Jimmy Pursey grew up in Walton-on-Thames . As a teenager, Jimmy Pursey worked at the Hersham Greyhound Racecourse, lived in East London for a year helping out at the market stalls on Roman Road. After his return to Hersham, he took on various jobs, including washing dishes in a pub.

Jimmy Pursey's first band, which he founded in 1975 with friends Albie Maskill, Billy Bostik and Johnny Goodfornothing, was called "Jimmy & The Ferrets". They mimicked songs by the Bay City Rollers , Gary Glitter, and The Rolling Stones . Pursey recalls that time in 2007:

Originally, when I, Jimmy Pursey, in 1975, formed the band, with a friend of mine called Albie Maskill, who like me as another farm boy, wanted to escape the 'groundhogged day', greyness of our world. None of us were musicians just kids looking for an answer, as in heres's one chord, here's another now form a band, to us THIS was PUNK! As far as music was concened there was only one blueprint The Ramones .

A few months later Pursey met the worker Dave Parsons from Hersham, who had also formed a band and performed in the same club. With similar musical ideas, the two founded a new band and named it "Sham 69", based on the local football club "Walton & Hersham FC". Pursey became the band's front man and vocalist and worked on the music with Dave Parsons until he left the band in 1979.

After the Sex Pistols split in 1978 , Steve Jones and Paul Cook planned a band project "Sham Pistols" with Jimmy Pursey as singer. However, there was only one appearance in Glasgow. The legendary recordings were released in 2001 as the album Sham Pistols Live .

In the 1980s, Jimmy Pursey released three albums with his own songs as a soloist ( Imagination Camouflage , Alien Orphan and Revenge is not the Password ) and promoted young punk bands as a music producer. He expressed in various film documentaries on punk and joined in the film Rude Boy by The Clash on.

In 1987 Sham 69 formed a band again. Pursey continued to act as a singer and lyricist until there were irreconcilable differences between Pursey and the other band members in the spring of 2006. On the evening of the group's 30th anniversary, Pursey's departure was announced publicly.

On January 21, 2008 Pursey formed the band Day 21 with The Rev, former guitarist of The Prodigy , bassist Mat Sargent and ex-drummer of The Towers of London , Snell .

Discography (selection)

Jimmy Pursey has contributed to the following publications:

Sham 69

  • 1978 Tell Us the Truth
  • 1978 Thats Life
  • 1979 The Adventures of Hersham Boys
  • 1980 The Game
  • 1988 volunteer
  • 1991 Information Libre
  • 1993 Kings & Queens
  • 1993 BBC1 - Live In Concert
  • 1995 Soapy Water & Mr. Marmalade
  • 1997 A Files CD
  • 2001 Direct Action: Day 21

As a soloist

  • 1980 Imagination Camouflage
  • 1982 Alien Orphan
  • 1983 Revenge is not the Password

As a producer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The History of Sham 69 on punk77.co.uk
  2. ^ Statement by Jimmy Pursey 2007.
  3. ↑ Translation: “When I, Jimmy Pursey, originally formed the band in 1975 with one of my friends, another farm boy named Albie Maskill, we wanted to escape from the daily grind and gloom of our world. None of us were musicians, just kids looking for an answer. Like, here's a chord, there another, now let's make a band. For us it was punk! As for music, there was only one draft: The Ramones . "
  4. ^ History - Sham 69. Sham 69 , accessed April 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Via Sham Pistols Live at allmusic.com
  6. ↑ Sham Pistols - Live in Glasgow 1979, Sanctuary Records CMRCD351, 2001.
  7. ↑ BBC News, Jan. 26, 2007.
  8. ^ Article dated August 7, 2008 on the New Musical Express website .
personal data
SURNAME Pursey, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pursey, James Timothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Hersham Surrey