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Combat 84 ‎–Rapist 7″

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Black vinyl. Limited 300 copies

Filth of society should all die
We need a stronger government
All you gotta do is hang ’em high
We want capital punishment
We need a stronger government
Bring back capital punishment
Hang ’em, hang ’em, hang ’em high
You watch those fucking bastards die

Combat 84 controversial second single Rapist that urges capital punishment and stronger government action, where the second track, The Right To Choose, accuses the C.N.D.–the British peace organization–of facilitating a Communist takeover, supports the installation of American nuclear missiles, and appeals to people to honor the British Falklands casualties. This of course didnt go down that well with music journalists at the time. Combat 84 were an English punk rock band active during the early 1980s. Formed in 1981 in Chelsea, London by skinheads Chubby Chris Henderson and Deptford John Armitage. But it wasnt just the single that caused problems it was also the fact that Combat 84 rose to national prominence after being featured in a controversial 1982 BBC Arena documentary about the skinhead movement. However it all started out pretty good when the band did their first gig supporting The Last Resort and their lead singer, Roi Pearce liked the band and agreed to produce a two-song demo tape with them. These sessions resulted in the songs Soldier and Combat 84, which were favorably received in the music press, leading to the band being described as the new Sham 69. It was this second EP, Rapist, that originally was released in 1983, which had a more right-leaning lyrics than many of their punk rock and Oi! Peers that started the problems. The band were now were now writing lyrics that attacked several targets, including beggars, foreign aid, the Guardian, lesbians and women’s liberation. Other lyrical themes included unemployment, inner-city violence, war, and slavish followers of fashion. Above this came the 1982 documentary during which Henderson alleged that the police were tougher on White skinheads than they were on Black rioters, said that “there will never be racial harmony” and blamed the Asians for the 1981 Southall riot, during which the band were attacked inside a gig venue. Deptford John briefly made some comments in agreement with Henderson over the riots but, in a later part of the documentary, he said that skinheads should be able to empathize with Blacks when they are denied jobs or entrance to venues, and should remember that, whereas skinheads can change how they look, Blacks cannot change their skin colour. Footage of crowd violence at a gig in Harlow was broadcast at the end of the documentary. This led to the break-up of the band, as their newly earned bad reputation discouraged venues from booking the band. Gigs were then often played under the pseudonym The 7th Cavalry to avoid the stigma of the Combat 84 name.Their record label wanted little to do with the band at this point an in the intervening years, Combat 84 were frequently labelled as a neo-Nazi, white power or Rock Against Communism (RAC) band while the band’s songs contained no racist lyrics, nor were they ever aligned with any far-right political party. The band’s reputation was made worse by the similarity in name to a neo-Nazi group called Combat 18. Deptford John and Jim went on to play with the UK Subs and The Exploited, and John Fisher played with former members of The Last Resort in The Warriors. After retiring from the music business, Chris Henderson became more involved with football hooliganism, and eventually led the Chelsea Headhunters in the mid-to-late 1980s and then he owned a bar in Pattay, Thailand before he died in October of 2013. I

Track list:
1. Rapist
2. The Right To Choose
3. Barry Prudom

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Splattered Records

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