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The Cockney Rejects are an Oi! punk band which formed in the East End of London in 1979.

Their biggest UK hit The Greatest Cockney Rip-Off was a parody of Sham 69's Hersham Boys. As Julie Burchill noted, "It must have been a bloody strong wind that blew the sound of Bow Bells to Surrey." Other songs were less commercial as they tended to be about street fighting and football hooliganism - except for the band's version of the famous West Ham United anthem, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles".

Read more about Cockney Rejects on Last.fm.

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Biography

The Cockney Rejects are an Oi! punk band which formed in the East End of London in 1979.

Their biggest UK hit The Greatest Cockney Rip-Off was a parody of Sham 69's Hersham Boys. As Julie Burchill noted, "It must have been a bloody strong wind that blew the sound of Bow Bells to Surrey." Other songs were less commercial as they tended to be about street fighting and football hooliganism - except for the band's version of the famous West Ham United anthem, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles".

Read more about Cockney Rejects on Last.fm.

User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.

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