Friday, 31 July 2009

Sham 69 - You're A Better Man Than I 7'' (1979)

Well as I'm off to see Sham tonight in Plymouth,a Sham post seemed appropriate. This was their cover version of The Yardbirds You're A Better Man Than I and in my opinion,a great cover it is too. The back of the picture sleeve is signed by all of the band too. Not so sure about the TOTP's performance though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YghKhoJojrk Look at Purseys hair,Dave Kermits shades and Dave P's strides and you'll see what I mean. Its hardly a Borstal Breakout is it? Any street cred left = out the window!
I'll be in Reading tomorrow watching this seasons English Premier League Champions so they'll be no posts.
Tracks

1) You're A Better Man Than I
2) Give A Dog A Bone

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

its Sham , nuff said - Gonk
hav good weekend

Nazz Nomad said...

wow- that's a lame vid.

dz said...

I wanna say they were saying something about the lines "Can you judge a man by the way he wears his hair Can you read his mind by the clothes that he wears"., but maybe not.

Longy said...

Cheers gonk,Nazz and dz. Weekends been good so far gonk

Nazz - yep its awful

dz - lol

Anonymous said...

Speaking of strange Sham 69 TV appearances. The last time I recall seeing JP and the boys live on the box was doing Kids Are United on Newsnight a couple of years ago. Jimmy was wearing a huge plaster over the top of one eye (??). Its on YouTube if you wanna have a look. Sadly Jimmy’s amusing pre -song chat with a slightly uncomfortable Kirsty Wark is not included.

Kes

Longy said...

I missed it when it was on TV Kes but I've seen it since on one the BBC website pages. I don't suppose its still up there now.