Late 70s, Young Punks on the King's Road
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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Late 1970s London, young punks hanging out on the King's Road
That’s me in the red string vest aged 15! I got Wilder looking once I’d left school. I’d go back to the 70’s in a heartbeat. Punk was life changing for me. Love it!
Wow, how cool is that!? Are you still a punk? Do you still live in London? I was born in 1985 and the beginning of punk in the late 70s is a total myth to me. :D
It's impossible to explain how truly thrilling, exciting and scary those times were! People were so frightened of us! The punk clubs were riotous, shambolic, unique and incomparable to any scenes today. GREAT reggae dub, amazing bands like The SEX pistols, Slits , Damned, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, it was so exciting...70s decade was a harsh era, and a violent one too. Punk was a great way to express our feelings and start a DIY ethos which I feel is missing today on the music scene. Most pop or urban artists too samey, and not much originality!!
No, everyone today just wants to do what the band, group, rap artist, etc. did before them, you're right there is such little originality today yet we're in the same sort of times as the 70s - inflation rising, food costs going up, poverty everywhere, and a stagnant, sterile art and music culture. When punk was happening it was exciting, and interesting, but not anymore..!
yeah, it was very DIY in the way that everyone copied the same style of 'individuality' to claim their 'individuality'
They all seem like nice, interesting kids and young adults... neither bums, nor winos, nor junkies, nor gangmembers nor violent hooligans...
Just young peo9le hanging out and having a good time.
... that just happened to dress like winos, junkies and hooligans
I’d go back tomorrow if I could . Such an amazing time . All gone now
Used to be loads of cutting edge clothing stores up and down the Kings Road. Now they are all gone - and so are the punks.
You're right, everyone just wears H and M boring street fashion, hoodies everywhere..!
@kyfaydfsoab yes I'm sure they did, my sister wore hooded tops when I was 12, I'm now 56, but they were not worn with the ubiquity that they are worn today, I know I lived through the 70s...
No mohawk, leather studded jacket poseurs here. First phase punk the
Best 76-78, true punk.
Notice no one was overweight in those days
Why is there no Music in the background?
0:22 - The lad in the Adidas hoodie is the most modern-looking one in the video. He could walk up the Kings Road today like that and no-one would bat an eyelid.
Weekend punks
not all of them
True punk rockers and not mohawks....
love it
Hey!, That's the "Knight Rider!" with the bleached striped hair!!!
Awesome job
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Most have artificial hips now and tell kids off for dropping litter!
What you'd call a scenester now. The real punk's came later.
@Jkiouz Jkiouz that depends on the moment, I'm a punk now, most of these had moved on by 78 to the next trend, hence punk Fanboys girls ect, it meant nowt to them. Rebelling against mum and dad. Not all I add, but most.
Define real Punks. The origin punk era was 76 to 78. Those in the 80s played diffrent music , more hardcore, and had different fashion, mohican hair and studded leathers.
@@gavinreid5387 cant remember what the original comment was now, jkiouz removed them after mine. I was sticking up for all punks then and now and he obs didn't want to play. Real punks are real people with the attitude from 76 times 10. Think what I was getting at was real punks stood the test of time, others faded away.
i would argue the real ones came earlier. the people that actually start scenes and do something new, not the people that follow it after its all the rage.
its the same story with any subculture or scene. some genuinely interesting and creative people start something without even knowing it or intending to, then it starts to catch on. then more and more people start flooding in and the actual interesting creative people sort of get lost in the crowd. eventually those interesting creative people that started it move on to some new thing they are experimenting with because their creativity has become stagnant and bored from doing the same thing every day for years. so they move on, then the people that were copying them and jumping on their train after they created a scene start calling them posers and sell outs for losing interest and seeking new territory. meanwhile that movement they started keeps becoming more watered down, ironically by people that want to tell you all about what that scene really means. and hey im guilty of it too, ive spent decades hanging out in scenes other people started and feeling cool and having a great time. but ive never sat around calling people sell outs or trying to explain to people the real meaning or rules of scenes that are allegedly partly about not being a follower or rules monitor or having a dress code etc...
I am a "kid" born in mid 90s, I find the punks are my people, especially here in UK, with the times we got now, I feel it is as important as ever and I'd like to pass on the message to the younger kids, I think I can count myself in no or am I a fraud haha
*I find it sort of amusing that people started to wear almost religiously what Johnny Rotten wore for a while, before he once again changed the way he dressed*