Adventures of Hersham Boys LP

There's a real tension at the core of Adventures of Hersham Boys: a street-punk band deciding they wanted arena choruses, and the 1979 UK Top 10 peak says the gamble worked even if critics at the time read it as a departure from the band's rougher roots. Jimmy Pursey, Dave Parsons, Dave Tregunna, and Ricky Goldstein trade the rawer edges of earlier Sham 69 records for songs built to fill a room, "Questions and Answers" and "Hersham Boys" chief among them. This import pressing keeps the original ten-track sequence intact.