That's Life is a concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 released in 1978 by English

England

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 punk rock

Punk rock

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 band, Sham 69

Sham 69

Sham 69 is an English punk band that formed in Hersham in 1976.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived...

. The album had two hit singles, "Hurry Up Harry" reaching chart position 10 in UK and "Angels With Dirty Faces", reaching 19 the same year. The album reached position 27, bettering the previous album Tell Us The Truth

Tell Us the Truth

Tell Us the Truth is an album released in 1978 by punk band Sham 69. The first side of the album is recorded live, as the other is recorded in studio. Tell Us The Truth includes one of Sham 69's biggest hits, "Borstal Breakout" on the live side of the album. The album charted at #25 in UK...

by 2 positions. In 1989 That's Life was re-released as a double-LP, That's Life as the other side, the other being their first album Tell Us The Truth.

Tracklisting

1. "Leave Me Alone"
2. "Who Gives a Damn"
3. "Everybody's Right Everybody's Wrong"
4. "That's Life"
5. "Win or Lose"
6. "Hurry Up Harry"
7. "Evil Way"
8. "Reggae Pick Up Part 1"
9. "Sunday Morning Nightmare"
10. "Reggae Pick Up Part 2"
11. "Angels With Dirty Faces"
12. "Is This Me or Is This You"

    CD reissue bonus tracks

13. "The Cockney Kids Are Innocent"
14. "No Entry"

Personnel

• Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey is an English singer and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the English punk rock band, Sham 69 from 1976 to 1980, and from 1986 to 2006.-Biography:...
  
  - vocals, producer, cover design, photography, lier notes
• Dave Parsons - guitars, liner notes
• Dave Treganna - bass
• Mark "Dodie" Cain - drums
• Peter Wilson - producer, engineer
• Brian Burrows - remixing
• Steve Hammonds - project coordinator
• Alwyn Clayden - package design
• Shane Baldwin - liner notes
• Barry Plummer - photography