The Adventures of the Hersham Boys is an album by punk 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...

, released in 1979. It's their most successful album to date, charting at #8 in the UK. It was not universally well received, with David Hepworth

David Hepworth

David Hepworth is a journalist and music writer responsible for the launch of many British magazines.Born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Hepworth attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield and Trent Park College of Education, Barnet...

 describing it as "A tired, hollow effort struggling between weary attempts at rabble-rousing and blush-making pseudo-Springsteen 'street' songs that reek of desperation and contract fulfilling. As empty and self-satisfied a record as anything they supposedly set out to replace."

Tracklisting

All songs by 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:...

 and Dave Parsons unless noted

1. "Money" - 3:13
2. "Fly Dark Angel" - 3:03
3. "Joey's on the Street Again" - 3:04
4. "Cold Blue in the Night" - 2:47 (Dave "Kermit" Treganna)
5. "You're a Better Man Than I" - 3:10 (Hug)
6. "Hersham Boys" - 4:46
7. "Lost on Highway 46" - 3:35
8. "Voices" - 2:52 (Goldstein/Pursey)
9. "Questions and Answers" - 3:14
10. "What Have We Got (Live)" - 2:54

    CD reissue bonus tracks

11. "Questions and Answers (Single Version)" - 3:18
12. "I Gotta Survive" - 1:31
13. "With a Little Help from My Friends
    With a Little Help from My Friends
    -Joe Cocker version:Joe Cocker's version was a radical re-arrangement of the original, in a slower, 6/8 meter, using different chords in the middle eight, and a lengthy instrumental introduction...
    
    " - 2:36 (John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
    
    , Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney
    Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
    
    )
14. "Hersham Boys (7" Version)" - 3:25
15. "I Don't Wanna (Live)" - 2:06
16. "Rip Off (Live)" - 2:43
17. "I'm a Man, I'm a Boy (Live)" - 2:10
18. "Tell Us the Truth (Live)" - 2:06
19. "Borstal Breakout (12" Single Version)" - 8:25
20. "If the Kids Are United
    If the Kids Are United
    "If the Kids Are United" is a song by Sham 69. The single, backed by the B-side "Sunday Morning Nightmare", was a success and reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart on July 1978...
    
     (12" Single Version)" - 16:20

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
• Dave Parsons - guitar
• Dave Treganna - bass
• Ricky Goldstein - drums
• Mark Cain - Drums (Departing Sham 69 soon after the completion)
• Peter Wilson - producer
• Jo Mirowski - art direction, design
• Peter Lavery - photography
• Tim Turan - mastering
• Brett Ewins - illustrations