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THIRD WORLD WAR IS OVER (You Didn't Want It)
By Marcus Gray

New article by Marcus Gray, on the story of TWW, John Fenton and everything...here

TERRY LIVE IN FRANCE

Terry played a number of gigs at the Cognac Blues Festival in July 2007. There are now three short clips on youtube of songs performed at the Cognac Blues Festival in 2007.

Tobacco Ash Sunday

If You Owe You Will Pay

Bootlace Johnnie


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	The Official Third World War - Terry Stamp & Jim Avery Website Stardom Road is a website dedicated to the music, life and times of Terry Stamp, Jim Avery and the legendary Third World War

			FROM TERRY STAMP FEBRUARY 2021 The JAW Records Terry Stamp 2020 album Twenty Rough Rotters came about due to Ryan King, a Third World War fan, musician and label owner living in Milwaukee, contacting me earlier in 2017 in regard to him releasing the original Third World War recording of Working Class Man. I gave him the info for contacting and licensing the song from the owner Fly Records/Bucks Music in the UK. I think the financial cost of leasing Working Class Man was maybe too much for Ryan King to fork out and he gave the leasing information to a friend in San Francisco who was Jason Duncan, another TWW fan and owner of JAW Records who went ahead and leased Working Class Man and Little Bit Of Urban Rock from Fly Records/Bucks Music and released it on JAW Records in 2017 as a 45 rpm on vinyl. Jason Duncan then got interested in my 1975 album titled Fatsticks and took a long time to get any ownership information. The original record label A&M Records/UK had been sold to other companies, even the now song publishers Universal Music Publishing, London, UK, had no knowledge of the songs they owned included on the Fatsticks album when Jason Duncan made enquiries about the album, Jason Duncan eventually reissued Fatsticks on Jaw Records on vinyl in 2019. In 2020 Jason Duncan became interested in some of my 1980s Bomb Shelter recordings (now up at Youtube), recorded here in Los Angeles and released a double vinyl album titled Twenty Rough Rotters in 2020, he also re-released his leased Working Class Man and Little Bit Of Urban Rock from Fly Records/Bucks Music in 2017 too, again releasing it on JAW Records as a 45 rpm on vinyl. Check out and support Jaw Records, San Francisco here: Home \| Just Add Water Records (bigcartel.com) and Just Add Water Records \| Facebook and Just Add Water Records - YouTube

	VIDEOS Terry's youtube channel can be found here - with a selection of music from all eras of his career


			MOJO DECEMBER 2013 Martin Aston has written an article about the first TWW album in Mojo. Entitled ‘All Aggro’d Up’ it highlights again the very special quality of this criminally under-rated album. Read the full article here. “However, Stamp was also penning lyrics worthy of a Marxist proto-punk, such as, “Up from the slums and the factory grime.. . Go let your Molotov off!" Britain's rock scene was totally unprepared. The band hadn’t played live before the album’s release, and Melody Maker's Roy Hollingworth concluded, "They are the worst band I have ever heard perform, ever... I felt like soaking myself in vodka, setting myself alight and flinging my body from a balcony in protest.”

			NEWS FROM CRAIG COLLINGE - DRUMMER on TTW2 The DVD Riches 2 Rags One Man Show focuses on the Rich musical career of Craig Collinge from his early prodigious beginnings to Rags and obscurity pursuing his musical dreams. In a dynamic display, Craig plays drums and explains the styles of music that he was introduced to, and the many bands that he has played with. His entertaining and informative rap on life inside and outside the musical boundaries,is thoughtful, insightful, and at times hilarious. Craig switches to piano/keyboard and displays his formidable technique. Explaining some of his musical influences, it includes film and experimental music, Jazz, Blues and World music. He then glimpses into the future of music simultaneously using Laptop/ piano /keyboards and drums. Craig demonstrates musical risk taking, Imagination and Multi-tasking. More here


			HARSH REALITY HEAVEN AND HELL Cherry Red have re-released the legendary Harsh Reality album which features two of Terry’s early songs, the title song ‘Heaven and Hell’ and ‘Tobacco Ash Sunday’ a song that was later covered by Paul Weller. More details here.

			JIM AVERY FILM SOUNDTRACKS Jim has been working with film maker Luc Rioche on various projects including the film The Loop.

	FULL TWW DISCOGRAPHY Every known release of Third World War here. (Unless you know different


			MARC ORIEL TERRY STAMP FILM An excerpt from Marc Oriel’s documentary about Third World War featuring Terry Stamp & Jim Avery can be viewed here. He is looking for film that exists of Third World War from the 1960s. Footage includes a single promo for A Little Bit of Urban Rock, a film made in Helsinki and film from at least one performance in France. If there’s anyone out there who knows anything please drop us a line.


			DIRTY WATER. THE BIRTH OF PUNK ATTITUDE Third World War featured in a compilation double CD set. A little Bit of Urban Rock (Single Version). Kris Needs presents...Dirty Water: The Birth of Punk Attitude


			HOWLING FOR THE HIGHWAY HOME Howling for the Highway Home, the album from Terry Stamp is available on Burning Shed Here Produced by Alistair Murphy it is the eagerly awaited follow up to Bootlace Johnnie and the Ninety Nines.


			PAUL WELLER Paul Weller, of the Jam and the Style Council, has covered one of Terry’s songs Tobacco Ash Sunday. A video of his performance can be viewed here The song was orginally recorded by the band Harsh Reality.


			MARCUS GRAY and THIRD WORLD WAR Marcus Gray, author of the Clash book ‘Return of the Last Gang in Town’ has written a fascinating four-page article about Third World War in this month’s Classic Rock. Marcus has spoken to all of the main players, Jim and Terry as well as TWW manager John Fenton and the rest of the band. Along with much new information there are some great previously unseen pictures. ‘At the start of the Seventies, no-one else was offering dirty realism quite as dirty as this, or projecting the same level of social menace. Listening to the album even 35 years later, your jaw hits the floor in shock and awe after the first verse and stays there till the last bellow dies away. The Bootlace Johnny track 'Tender Guillotine' reveals Stamp to be more sentimental about TWW than he tends to admit. Telling the story of the band with ill-disguised affection, it closes with the lines: 'We kicked their arseholes then / And we'll kick their arseholes now. If you never give up, you have the right to remain defiant.’

			MARC ALMOND A surprise cover version by Marc Almond of the song ‘Stardom Road’ from TWW’s first album is due for release in spring 2007 - read all about it on the News Archive page...


			BOOTLACE JOHNNIE AND THE NINETY NINES The recent album by Terry Stamp, ‘Bootlace Johnnie and the Ninety-Nines’, is still available for purchase here. Signed copies are also available! Contact us to find out how...

			FATSTICKS Read the review of Terry Stamp’s ‘Fatsticks’ that appeared in The Guardian on theh 6th October 2006 by Jonathon More from Coldcut.


			ANOTHER NEW CONVERT! Henry Rollins of Black Flag and the Rollins Band has name checked Third World War on his website and played Ascension Day on his radio programme in the States. Third World War - Ascension Day: From the Third World War CD. I know, you heard of this band a long time ago and are bored already. As you know, I am usually late to class on a lot of things. I was at Ian’s the other night and he put this album on and asked me if I had ever heard of the band. Of course not. Sounds like Skrewdriver heard this album at least once or twice. I was able to find their two albums on CD and got them. I have not checked out the 2nd much yet but I will. The first album is really cool. I am surprised no one pointed this one out to me before. Check out Terry Stamp’s vocals. This album was recorded in 1970 and released in 1971. Lyric wise, it sounds like pre-white power Skrewdriver and almost Oi. I don’t remember seeing Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 ever mention this band.

	Read all TWW and Bootlace Johnnie reviews on our website. Here’s a small selection... Joe Strummer walked up to me at the bar and said, “Were you in Third World War?” I said “Yes”, and he shook my hand. “You guys were doing it when everything else was dead...” Jim Avery 2004 Listening this week to the Clash’s album, noting its attitude and sentiments, I was driven back to Third World War, and having played the old album a couple of times afresh I'm convinced that it is one of the most prophetic yet neglected items in all of British rock. Richard Williams - Melody Maker 1977 This album has the best title of any record ever released, and it represents a bizarre and inexplicable tangent of my taste - extreme English boogie rock....this record gets the nod for its abrasive personality, impressively rude guitar playing and no-holds-barred radical communist lyricism... Crucial. Steve Albini, Melody Maker July 9th 1994

'Well, I kicked on my mule, and he obeyed me,
Everyone else snuffed and delayed me.
They said you ain't got the voice,
And you ain’t got the chords,
And yer living in Bayswater, on floorboards.
And you won’t,
No you won’t, no you won’t,
Take that load
Up Stardom Road.'

Stardom Road 1970