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After being the first punk band with a Top 10 UK single, "Hurry Up Harry" from their second album and first full studio album, That's Life, they started to move away from punk into a sound heavily influenced by classic British hard rockHard rock is a form of rock and roll music that finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock. Budgie, AC/DC, The Stooges, MC5, Living Colour, Prong, Skid Row, Guns N' Roses, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple are easy to find examples of hard rock. Van Ha such as Mott The Hoople, The WhoThe Who is a British rock band. They were noted for the dynamism of their live performances and for their thoughtful music, including Tommy one of the first rock operas. While not a heavy metal band themselves, their distorted guitars, epic songwriting, a and The FacesThe Faces were an early 1970s rock band formed from the ashes of The Small Faces after Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie; new members Ron Wood ( guitar) and Rod Stewart ( vocals) joined Ronnie Lane ( bass), Ian McLagan ( keyboards) and Kenney Jones,, on their third album, Hersham Boys . They broke up after their fourth album. Singer Jimmy Pursey moved in a heavy metalHeavy metal is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified and distorted guitars, and the themes explored in heavy metal lyrics are often dark or sexually explicit. Heavy metal is a development of blues, blues ro direction afterwards, and bassist Dave Tregunna joined the pioneering 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends glam-punk- Gothic band, The Lords of the New Church with Stiv Bators from The Dead Boys and Brian James from The Damned.

Pursey resurrected Sham 69 in the 1990s with a different lineup, with indifferent success.