In August 2005 Pursey was involved in a physical confrontation with John Lydon whilst they were both queuing for travel visas at the United States Embassy in London, Lydon reportedly having spurned an offer of Pursey's hand with verbal abuse and a drink being thrown, with Pursey responding by kicking at Lydon in retaliation.
In May 2005 there was a disturbance at The Head art gallery in Brighton, when Pursey interrupted an art show opening drinks party and removed a number of his paintings from the display after a disagreement with the curator over them. He is a part-time artist, and has been known to sell paintings to raise funding for the Hersham Hounds Greyhound Sanctuary. Pursey lives in the Surrey town of Chertsey. Dave Tregunna, on bass, and Mark Cain, on drums, were called in to complete the original lineup for a show in London. At a meeting held between Pursey and Dave Parsons, original Sham 69 guitarist and co-writer of nearly all of the Sham repertoire with Pursey, the two ironed out their differences. In July 2011 Pursey reformed Sham 69 again with the band's late 1970s members. In 2008 he set up a new band titled Day 21 with Mat Sargent on bass, The Rev ( Towers of London and The Prodigy) on guitar, and Snell (Towers of London). NME reported that a statement released by Parsons included the message: "Sham 69 have left Jimmy Pursey on the eve of their 30th anniversary." Pursey initially stated that he would be retaining the Sham 69 name, but in January 2008, he announced that: "to avoid confusion to fans he wanted it known that he did not want to be associated with the band still performing as Sham 69". In 2006, Pursey recorded a new version of the Sham 69 hit "Hurry Up Harry" as an unofficial World Cup song in aid of a cancer charity "Hurry Up England" was recorded with Graham Coxon's band but credited to 'Sham 69 & the Special Assembly'. The band continued to play live and record until 2006. In 1986 Pursey reformed Sham 69 with Dave Parsons, and a new line-up.
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He later released a fourth solo album entitled Code Black (1997). In 1983, a third long-player, entitled Revenge is not the Password, was released on the Code Black label. Pursey then moved to Epic Records for three further singles releases, including "Animals Have More Fun" (1981), co-written with Peter Gabriel, and a second solo LP entitled Alien Orphan (1981). His first solo material was released via Polydor Records, being the single Lucky Man (1980), and a long-player entitled Imagination Camouflage (1980), recorded with Derwood Andrews and Mark Laff, formerly of Generation X as session musicians, who also received co-writing credits for two of the LP's songs). He also worked around this period as a record producer on the early releases by Cockney Rejects, and the Angelic Upstarts. Pursey set up a short-lived new band with Steve Jones and Paul Cook, formerly of The Sex Pistols, titled the " Sham Pistols", before embarking on a solo career. Sham 69 went on to release four long-players via Polydor Records, and had six UK top 50 singles before it broke up in 1980, with the violence that regularly marred its gigs having taken a toll on the band. Slider left shortly afterwards and was replaced by Dave Tregunna on the bass guitar. Before securing a record contract the lineup changed, with Harris and Bostock being replaced by Dave Parsons and Mark Cain. The band initially rehearsed at Slider's parents' pig farm, where Jonathan King sometimes came to watch them, considering the option of becoming the act's promoter. In 1976 while working at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium with Albie Slider, Billy Bostik and Neil Harris, having been inspired by the music of The Ramones, Pursey formed a punk rock band called 'Jimmy and the Ferrets', which went on to become 'Sham 69'. He began performing in public after taking the stage as a drunk fourteen-year-old at the disco, miming to Bay City Rollers and Rolling Stones songs. In his youth he was a regular attender at the local disco, the Walton Hop at the Playhouse Theatre, where he met the record producer Jonathan King. He received his education at Hersham House & Burhill Infants, Hersham Juniors, and at Rydens School, which he left at the age of 15 to work in a curtain shop.
His father was a plumber and former British Army soldier, and his mother worked as a cinema usherette.
Pursey was born in Hersham, in the county of Surrey on 9 February 1955.
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