Along with the Sex Pistols, The Clash, the Damned and Generation X, The Boys were amongst the first wave of the
UK punk explosion in the mid seventies and became the first UK punk band to sign an album deal in January 1977.
Highly regarded by the music press and their contemporaries, their pop approach and use of harmonies led to their description
 as ‘The Beatles of Punk’, with their debut album entering the UK charts in September 1977.Casino Steel (keyboards/vocals) 
had been in the influential Hollywood Brats before meeting Matt Dangerfield (guitar/vocals), who had converted his rented basement
 flat in Maida Vale into a home recording studio. 47A Warrington Crescent became extremely important in the development
 of the  UK punk scene in the mid seventies. 
Mick Jones, Tony James, Brian James, Rat Scabies, Gene October, Sid Vicious and Billy Idol amongst many others were regular visitors. 
As well as The Boys, The Damned, The Clash, Generation X and the Sex Pistols made their first recordings in Dangerfield’s studio. 
Dangerfield had been at art  school in Leeds with Honest John Plain (guitar/vocals), who was foreman in a T-shirt factory
where he met Duncan ‘Kid’ Reid (bass/vocals)   and Jack Black (drums), who had been at school together  in Tonbridge.

The Boys made their  debut at London’s Hope and Anchor Pub in late September 1976.
Mick Jones, Billy Idol, Joe Strummer, Tony James and Gene October were all present and the pub was packed 
for The Boys debut performance. They became the first punk band to sign an album deal when they were snapped up by NEMS in January 1977.
Having released two albums and three singles with NEMS, they moved to Safari in 1979 where two further  albums and five more singles followed.
Throughout their career The Boys  always had more success overseas than in their home country.
Every Christmas they rearranged  the ‘B’ and the ‘Y’ and became The Yobs, releasing the classic punk pastiche, “The Worm Song”.
Over the last three decades The Boys’ songs have been covered by countless bands, 
with substantial sales from Argentina to Germany and Japan.

Steve Metcalfe 

TAKEN FROM  http://www.myspace.com/theboysuk

THE BOYS
DISC ONE
1. Sick On You 
2. I Call Your Name
3. Tumble WIth Me
4. Tonight
5. I Don't Care
6. Soda Pressing
7. No Money
8. First Time
9. Box Number
10. Kiss Like A Nun
11. Cop Cars
12. Keep Running
13. Tenement Kids
14. Living In The CIty
BONUS TRACKS
15. Watcha Gonan Do
16. Turning Grey
17. The First Time 
18. Lonely School Days
19. I Don't Care
20. Take A Heart
21. Run Rudolph Run
22. The Worm Song

ALTERNATIVE CHARTBUSTERS
DISC TWO
1. Brickfield Nights
2. U.S.I.
3. Taking On The World
4. Sway (Quien Sera)
5. Do The Contract Hustle
6. Heroine
7. Not Ready
8. Classified Susie
9. T.C.P
10. Neighborhood Brat
11. Stop Stop Stop
12. Backstage Pass
13. Talking
14. Cast Of Thousands
BONUS TRACKS
15. Teachers Pet
16. School Days
17. Lies
18. She's No Angel
19. You're The Other Man
20. SIlent Night