He said, “I was forced into making it, you understand? I called it The Game because that’s how the music business had become to me. The band would eventually break up in 1980, with Jimmy explaining in an interview with the anarchist, punk zine Flipside). They eventually ended doing live shows after a 1979 concert at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park where white power skinheads started fighting and rushed the stage. They would use their shows are recruiting grounds to obtain more working class youths, and would usually cause many fights in their venues. But even with their left wing politics, they had found their band and live shows being riddled with right wing skinheads/fascists, usually siding with the BNP or the National Front. Usually dealing with populist, left wing ideals like antifascism, anti capitalist and anti police. The graffiti was a reference to when the futbol club had won the Athenian title in 69'.Įver since their creation their hard rock influenced music has had a politics heavy theme to it. But after the many years being up on the wall it had faded and just read sham 69. The band got its famous name from graffiti, with the lead vocalist Jimmy Pursey saying that it came from some faded graffiti they saw. Sham 69 is highly regarded as one of the original trail blazers of the punk genre, ever since their creation in 1976.
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