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Release Date: 20 February 2026
Label: Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 4
Barcode: 5013929613300
Genres: 70's
Description
• Four disc 66-track clamshell box set featuring all of Sham 69's releases between 1978 and 1980, their most commercially and critically successful period.
• Disc 1 is debut LP 'Tell Us The Truth’ which hit No.25 in the UK National Chart in March 1978. Amongst the bonus tracks are the singles 'I Don't Wanna’ and 'Borstal Breakout’.
• The second disc is the No.27 charting 'That's Life’ 'Street Opera' album which includes the hit singles 'Angels With Dirty Faces’ (No.19) and 'Hurry Up Harry’ (No.10) plus bonus track 'If The Kids Are United’ (No.9).
• Disc 3 is 'The Adventures Of Hersham Boys’ which reached No.8 in late 1979. The title track gave the band a No.6 hit single.
• The final disc is 1980's 'The Game’ which includes the hit single 'Tell The Children’.
• The booklet comes with detailed liner notes by Vive La Rock journalist Phil Singleton.
Tracklisting
DISC ONE
TELL US THE TRUTH
1. We Got A Fight
2. Rip Off
3. Ulster
4. George Davis Is Innocent
5. They Don’t Understand
6. Borstal Breakout
7. Family Life
8. Hey Little Rich Boy
9. I’m A Man, I’m A Boy
10. What About The Lonely?
11. Tell Us The Truth
12. It’s Never Too Late
13. Whose Generation!
BONUS TRACKS
14. I Don’t Wanna
15. Ulster
16. Red London
17. Borstal Breakout (7’ Version)
18. Song Of The Streets (aka What Have We Got)
DISC TWO
THAT’S LIFE
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 I
9. Sunday Morning Nightmare
10. Reggae Pick Up Part II
11. Angels With Dirty Faces
12. Is This Me Or Is This You?
BONUS TRACKS
13. The Cockney Kids Are Innocent
14. If The Kids Are United
15. Sunday Morning Nightmare (7’ Version)
16. No Entry
DISC THREE
THE ADVENTURES OF HERSHAM BOYS
1. Money
2. Fly Dark Angel
3. Joey’s On The Street Again
4. Cold Blue In The Night
5. You’re A Better Man Than I
6. Hersham Boys
7. Lost On Highway 46
8. Voices
9. Questions And Answers
10. What Have We Got?
BONUS TRACKS
11. Questions And Answers (7’ Version)
12. I Gotta Survive
13. With A Little Help From My Friends
14. Day Tripper
15. Hersham Boys (7’ Version)
16. Borstal Breakout (Free 12’ Version)
17. If The Kids Are United (Free 12’ Version)
DISC FOUR
THE GAME
1. The Game
2. Human Zoo
3. Lord Of The Flies
4. Give A Dog A Bone
5. In And Out
6. Tell The Children
7. Spray It On The Wall
8. Dead Or Alive
9. Simon
10. Déjà Vu
11. Poor Cow
12. Run Wild Run Free
BONUS TRACKS
13. Jack
14. Unite And Win
15. I’m A Man
Wild Horses
Various Artists
The Residents
The House Of Love
The Exploited
Sham 69
Hawkwind
Rose Tattoo
Sham 69
Sham 69
Sham 69
