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[edit] Indifferent success?

What the hell does "indifferent success" mean? --User:Chinasaur

[edit] On Sham 69's pioneering chart successes, ahem...

"After being the first punk band with a Top 10 UK single, "If The Kids Are United",...."

Oh really? What about that (admittedly otherwise-forgotten) punk band known as Sex Pistols? Didn't they do a tiny wee bit of chart-bothering prior to 1978?

Some serious fantasising going on in this article as it stands...--DaveG12345 14:36, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Macdonalds

I don't believe the Macdonalds story. The band's track If The Kids Are United was used on a Macdonalds ad during an early 1990s World cup, much to the band's chagrin (they didn't hold onto the licensing rights). I think the TOTP report was a joke, a deliberate insult or a mistake, or the wikipedien misheard; after all, Pursey was modelling for The Gap a few years ago! Also, much of this article seems sneering and POV. I will change it at some point, as the band's later history deserves a better hearing that it is currently getting, and their earlier importance as a genuinely working class punk phenomena needs expanding. Pursey probably deserves his own entry as well. Jmc29


[edit] re-Macdonald

I don't believe the Macdonald's story too. But i don't really know what Pursey's doing now...After going in their website, i just think that he continues to sing in Sham 69 and they are giging somewhere in England... I have a book that gives informations about Sham 69 an Pursey's story but it's old...(date from the 80's yeah!), so i don't know much more about him. :-( But this is not a wikipedien's misheard. I saw that rumour in few other sites too...But this wikipedien did another mistake... this page isn't alright: it's a copy from another text that i saw on internet. But i don't know how to put the advertise! So, if someone can do something to correct this article, do it please. Bobby Disgracious 14:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] When did they form?

Ok, so they broke up in '78, were "ressurected" in the 90s... there's one thing missing: WHEN THEY STARTED!!!

[edit] "bathroom stall wall"

This phraseology comes from the existing text of the main article. It will certainly bring forth laughter from English readers of the text, if not others too. Presumably we are talking about a lavatory wall here. Probably best to say so, otherwise half the world will think we call such things 'bathroom stall walls'.

Derek R Bullamore 23:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Were Sham 69 Skinheads?

Were they skinheads or were in support of the Skinhead movement? In the aticle it said that the the members were skinheads which led to influence oi & street punk. I have also heard they were skinheads from several people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by John)nobody 768 (talk • contribs) 01:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC).

  • Judging by photos taken at various stages of their career, it doesn't look like they were actually skinheads, and the article does not claim that the band members were skinheads. However, many of their fans were/are skinheads. Also, skinhead is a subculture, not a movement. Spylab 17:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
They were very thin, if that's what you mean. -Ashley Pomeroy 22:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Breakup & lineup

For the record, breakup and lineup are real words in the English language. I'm not sure if there is a geographic variation in the way they are spelled, but according to dictionary.com they can be spelled that way, or as break-up and line-up. My preference is to use the spellings without the hyphen, and that's the way I usually see those words spelled on Wikipedia Spylab 10:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:SHAM69-S.jpg

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[edit] Current Event?

Does this event still recquire to be classified as discussing a current event?Hammard 00:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)