1955: Meet the TEDDY BOYS | Special Enquiry | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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Special Enquiry: Britain's Teenagers - a documentary presented by Denis Mitchell - follows the lives of different teenagers living in 1950s Britain.
This extract focuses on Mike and Pat, a couple of young London teddy boys whose pastimes include wearing Edwardian clothes, doing their hair and spending time with their mates and their 'steadies'. What are their likes, dislikes and ambitions? How do they feel about their parents and the older generations, and what do their parents think about them?
Originally broadcast, 1 November, 1955.
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@chamboyette853 2 года назад

These guys would be called model citizens today. Working at a job, having steady girlfriends, trying to be respectful of people outside their district ...

@Friday0891 2 года назад

respectful they where not

@bobbi6ix 2 года назад

They were also VERY racist too. That’s your model citizen out the window

@hakim2546 2 года назад

@@bobbi6ix that makes them even better

@russellwhite1581 2 года назад

@@bobbi6ix No more "racist" than anyone from 1955.

@InternalMind 2 года назад

@@bobbi6ix yeah cos you were there were ya?

@11UncleBooker22 2 года назад

Imagine being worried your son is dressing up.

@jemmajames6719 2 года назад

In a suit!

@Stanley.77 2 года назад

Yes, and not as a girl! Geez, today the MSM lefties celebrate transvestites and cross-dressers, I'd bet parents of teens like that *WISH* their sons would dress like the old school teddy boys!

@SG3-wd40 2 года назад

Haha I'd be worried these days plus his mum would have a fit wearing her knickers and bra 😂

@ChickenMcThiccken 16 дней назад

has anything changed? look at will smith's kid jaden

@wanderinggoliard 2 года назад

Plato’s theories and all that caper.

@willowbrooke1215 2 года назад

A lot of kids their age would've had an absent father growing up due to world war 2 and possibly had fathers killed

@danielfitzgerald2561 2 года назад

"They call men who wear conventional clothes peasants" Some things never change

@elkpaz560 3 дня назад

British irony at its best.

@pommunist 2 года назад

"Don't believe all the press talk you read about, it's a build up for the papers" Some things never change...

@davehoward22 7 месяцев назад

My old man was a ted/rocker..died couple of weeks ago..Rip dad

@Tennyhu 6 месяцев назад

🙏

@mattias969 3 месяца назад

Rest in rocknroll

@mumsow 2 года назад

As I was growing up I used to love seeing the Teddy Boys. Always found them to be respectful and very sartorial.

@bradford_shaun_murray Год назад

0:15 🧸0:42 👀

@ajs41 Год назад

The young women at the time actually seem more attractive than young women today, which is pretty amazing when you consider all the advantages that people today have over people in the 1950s.

@tylercsm4690 4 месяца назад

Hey i checked out your channel. You're a great singer!

@mumsow 4 месяца назад

@@tylercsm4690 thank you 💚

@Supermatsch 3 месяца назад

I guess there are always good ones and bad ones. I watched and read reports about Teddy Boys. If you google "Teddy Boys" you'll see a newspaper article from the 50s. Headline: "War on Teddy Boys" - a report about how the police fights against criminal Teddy Boys. And during the time of the Teddy Boy revival in the 70s and 80s there where fights between Punks and Teds. Even Vivianne Westwood stopped to sell Teddy Boy clothes as she found out some of them were rassists and sexists. And started to sell punk style (mid 70s).

@EllRiver 2 года назад

" I don't like how those thugs dress, they have suits on! SUITS!"

@m66rky 2 года назад

Kept waiting for Harry Enfield to pop up!!! Mr Chomley-Warner

@amp279 2 года назад

Sounds like the Cockneys had similar social cues as Scousers, my love told me that in those days visiting guys knew never to stare at the girls, his father was an early teddy boy, they're both gone now, thanks for this little gem from history, I hope the guys lived happy lives.

@thecaveofthedead 2 года назад

"What's wrong with them that they won't settle into an endless grey routine of grinding monotony?!"

@ericconnor8419 2 года назад

No, what was wrong with them is that they used to hurt people especially if they were not white. Nobody minds a bloke wearing a suit or riding a motorbike.

@ltipst2962 Год назад

Its just screaming realities at me. People would be surprised to think life isn't all glam now. And we've less places to meet!

@andydixon2980 2 года назад

Better that hoodies, tracksuit, trousers hanging halfway down the arse look they have today.

@hilaryepstein6013 2 года назад

Being a Teddy Boy was probably no better or worse than being a Mod, Rocker, Punk, New Romantic or anything else that came later and involved young people wearing the same sort of clothes, listening to the same music etc. I felt sorry for Mike. He should have followed his dream and gone to Africa. Maybe he did eventually, who knows.

@fs.pureblood Год назад

He didn't need to go to Africa. Africa came to London.

@harrypottershead8331 Год назад

@@fs.pureblood clown.

@ilovegot7754 Год назад

@@fs.pureblood And I'm so happy, I hope more and more come to take over jobs mainly doctors, nurses and lawyers that they usually are.

@fs.pureblood Год назад

@@ilovegot7754 then you are part of the problem. People like you should be made to put them up in your house at your own expense.

@johnathandaviddunster38 Год назад

@@ilovegot7754 sadly you can't argue with drunks, religious maniacs or BIGOTS.....

@anneshields2010 2 года назад

My late uncle was a Teddy boy and he was smartly dressed I thought and he got me liking Elvis he was a Ted from a young age right up till he died we sadly lost him to covid in the early days of the pandemic and he was buried in his Teddy boy clothes and the hair he had left was still styled my uncle was a great guy always good fun and he was a good kid and went out his way to hep people and he kinda adopted his next door neighbour as his kid brother as he used to hang out with him and he protected him too as the boy was picked on for having Down’s syndrome and my uncle always kept a look out for him but he was a great guy and so sadly missed

@darlingthimblemoon4658 Год назад

My condolences to you and your family 🖤

@OldAgeTeddyboy Год назад

We are the Teds, and always will be, been living the Ted lifestyle for over 45 yrs now, and still going strong..

@mikethespike7579 7 месяцев назад

Teddy boy culture went out of fashion latest around the early 1960s. After that it was a different generation of youths with a different youth culture. So if you had walked around dressed as a teddy boy in 1978 you must have garnered some very odd looks and a lot of giggles behind your backs. Not that I personally think being a ted in any way wrong, but it does amaze me.

@OldAgeTeddyboy 7 месяцев назад

@@mikethespike7579 Your having a laugh, i became a Ted in 75, by the time 78 came along with where large gangs of Teds in every town and city up and down the country, not one person laughed or even giggled, people knew exactly who were were and what we were capable of, 1972 saw the Ted revival, and more and more people came into the scene, most wore their parents Drapes, but it wasnt long before the tailors realised they could make a packet, and they did, then punk came out and said they were going to wipe us out, well they tried, and failed, i spent many a bank holiday down Margate, Hasting and Brighton where we fought the punks and skinheads, you must have been asleep or not born yet if you thought that

@mikethespike7579 7 месяцев назад

@@OldAgeTeddyboyThanks for your detailed comment. Sounds like I missed out on a bit fun then. I left UK shores end of 1970 towards the end of the flower power "movement" when girls were wearing hot pants. Where I then lived this ted revival was not reported. I like the bit where young guys put on their dads' old jackets. That warms my heart. I remember as a young kid, those jackets were the most important part of a ted's gear. Without that you simply weren't a teddy boy. Owning an authentic original jacket probably boosted bragging rights a lot. We had punks where I was, but they came far later. I could never warm to them. Strange music tastes, strange everything really, they were not my type.

@davehoward22 6 месяцев назад

45 years? thats the edge of punk/ska

@OldAgeTeddyboy 6 месяцев назад

@@davehoward22 Been a Ted since 1975

@MD-hy9jv 2 года назад

Gen z girl here, I wouldn't mind if they came back.. pleeeeease

@heathen-greaser Год назад

We're still about

@emmapixie3299 Год назад

@@heathen-greaser I am 33 years old so obviously before my time but I think they look well dressed and smart, would love if this look made a comeback

@cheeseontoast9134 Год назад

There is a follow up called Ten Years After: Pat and Mike, 1964. They had become window cleaners.I found it in the bbc archive, but cannot find it on you tube.

@rkk578 Год назад

There is one more follow up from 1977(?) as well. I wonder what's happened with them afterwards.

@cheeseontoast9134 Год назад

Another follow up from 1977? I would love to see it. I wonder what happened to them later in life also.

@michaelpearson1272 8 месяцев назад

You should see if you can turn it into a you tube video yourself. The last follow up they made the film adventures of a window cleaner. I think it's a movie you can look it up.

@coolcpa3321 6 месяцев назад

BBC website under "Archive" section: 1. 7 minute clip of "Ten Years After: Part and Mike, 1964" 2. Festival '77 - Where are they now" includes Pat (still cleaning windows and flashy attire). He said Mike moved to New Zealand

@paulseoighemcgee5772 2 года назад

'So I singled out the ring leader and gave 'im a really good punch on the nose ...' - sorted .

@yozza4978 2 года назад

...."and then the whole street cheered and shook my hand"...lol she was talking complete crap.

@tablettwentytwo1750 2 года назад

SorTED....

@charliedrake247 9 месяцев назад

Look how clean the streets are

@shack7631 Год назад

They were the first youth cult and as such anyone who was a mod, rocker, hippie, punk, skinhead or even Goth owes them a lot.

@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide Год назад

You can Ligma?

@Inexpressable 11 месяцев назад

@@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide pepe profile picture, terrible bait memes. go back to twitch and be a degenerate there

@biegebythesea6775 8 месяцев назад

Particularly knife crime, which they invented!

@carltwidle9046 2 года назад

I think they looked good, neat, well dressed. I think the hairstyle was what people didn't like. I can remember this when I was very young.

@northernfireworks402 2 года назад

Weirdly scripted in parts but illuminating and brilliant all the same. The Mods especially and the Punks on a more nihilistic level had a similar rebel mindset but in a very different Britain and a media fervour of another level altogether. Rebel rebel!

@bradford_shaun_murray Год назад

Teddy Boys 1950s Mods then the Hippies 1960s Punks then the New Wavers 1970s Metal Heads 1980s

@oliverwortley3822 Год назад

look at how nice and well groomed and well kept and handsome they all were

@dmmoctober Год назад

And short. Rather short I find.

@oliverwortley3822 8 месяцев назад

@@dmmoctober how can you tell they’re short from the video? that isn’t something i picked up on.

@ajs41 4 месяца назад

@@dmmoctober How do you know?

@johnlondon5516 Месяц назад

People were generally a bit shorter in the past.@dmmoctober

@leeetchells609 2 года назад

There always was a teddy boy culture in Britain in 50s/60s but the rock n roll revival mid 70s introduced a new generation of young Ted's into the scene. An old ted told me the rock n roll scene in the 70s/80s was far better than the 1950s. It was very restricted back in 50s where you could dance and drink alcohol.

@cooldaddy2877 Год назад

The culture was equally big in Ireland in the fifties and many of the earliest Teddy Boys were Irish or second generation Irish in London. I was around then and know it is true. It was the Irish who introduced Country Boogie music to the scene around 1953 (Moon Mullican, Hank Williams etc). By the seventies the so called Teddy Boys were a pastiche of us originals. They were exaggerated in the clothing as they copied clowns like Showaddywaddy and Mud. We saw them as different. I would say that the music in the fifties was better and more varied. By the eighties it was too centralised on Rockabilly music. I think your old Ted friend may have been a tad "shy" in the fifties as we had plenty of places to listen to R'n'R, dance and drink alcohol!!!

@daveberry2177 6 месяцев назад

a teddy boy once fixed my fence for me, he was a nice chap

@jack0609 2 года назад

Why does the first guy look like Ringo Starr? I know he was a teddy boy around this time which is why the Beatles were scared of him at first since they were more rockers while Ringo was full teddy boy

@jack0609 2 года назад

@DnB and Psy Production yeah I think he looked like that when he was with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes I think at that point he was just Richard Starkey

@welshlad6427 2 года назад

Mike and Pat if still alive would be in there 80s now.

@martm216 2 года назад

That's right, the one who was 17 would be 84. Staggering thought.

@martm216 2 года назад

@@crispindry2815 yes indeed, not realising that the octogenarian was one of the pioneers of teen-culture? Which is what I guess the Teddy Boys were.

@angelicaquirarte Год назад

@@crispindry2815 thats just stupid and ignorant thing to say, if someone is like that must be stupid,

@cooldaddy2877 Год назад

@@crispindry2815 You are so so so right. Oh, and I would be one of those old farts...proud to have been a Teddy Boy in the fifties...the greatest time ever.

@pureboxofscartcables 2 года назад

It was the Rock & Roll what corrupted them.

@cooldaddy2877 Год назад

We were not corrupted by anything...just having a laugh and enjoying life.

@treborschafer3945 Год назад

They seem far nicer than most of the teenage lads of today to be honest.

@ajs41 Год назад

Also the girls seem more attractive than today's young women.

@EclecticoIconoclasta Год назад

Clearly you have not read about the Notting Hill riots. Gangs of Teddy Boys used to terrorize immigrants and that is why there is a strong association of the original Teddy Boys with racist violence. When Teddy Boys came back in the 70s they were also involved in violence againts other subcultures such as punks

@ax3226 9 месяцев назад

@@ajs41because they’re not half naked like todays girls

@biegebythesea6775 8 месяцев назад

@@ajs41maybe stop insulting women's looks??? Women don't need to be attractive and also are you even remotely attractive?

@biegebythesea6775 8 месяцев назад

@@ax3226if today's girls are half naked, men can blame themselves for that.

@liverpoolpictorial Год назад

Fascinating video. I'd love to know more about these lads. I hope they have had happy lives.

@partypoison9779 9 месяцев назад

it's a bit late but my grandfather was a Teddy boy in the late 50s, about 1958 to be exact and he was a really good man. he lived a very good life and lived to be 81 years old. he was nothing like the people they talk about in this video so I suppose it comes down to the individual.

@jamieb0nd 2 года назад

Today it seems like we only have one youth culture and that is dressing like a sportsman but not doing sport and smoking lots of weed and listening to very embarrassing British rap. At least the 60s, 70s and 80s kids had diverse music and each cult had their own dress style, now it's just all youth just wearing track suits and baseball caps

@jamieb0nd 2 года назад

@john smeaton that's a sign of too much BBC TV mate. Focus more, You will feel sleepy 😘👌

@harrypottershead8331 Год назад

That is absolutely not true. Should read some statistics about youth culture and how diverse it is.

@lucrio4088 Год назад

Seems like you’re making the exact same mistake as the woman at the beginning of the video

@jamieb0nd Год назад

@@harrypottershead8331 breaking news :polls & statistics lie. In fact statistics show you are very wrong

@kelechi_77 Год назад

@@jamieb0nd this is the sign of a generation gap, the parents of 60's kids did not like psych rock, the parents of 70s kids did not like punk... etc. So it is expected you wouldn't like modern music.

@MrDaiseymay 2 года назад

I was 14 in 1955, My family moved about too much for me to form connections with the local 'groups of Teds. The Paper's seem to be full of Trouble maker's, smashing up Cinema seats etc. And causing havoc at Dance Halls. But these lads,seem decent enough. They just rebelled against the post War world of their father's values, which had a strong element of the military national Service still prevelant. Luckliy for the TED's, the government scrapped National Service 6 yrs later, otherwise, they'd have lost their prized 'Tony Curtis Hair, and ELVIS sulkyness.

@raoulduke344 7 месяцев назад

For anyone interested, the Teddy Boys are pretty much exactly what Alex and his Droogs would dress like in A Clockwork Orange (well, not exactly the same but far closer than Kubrick's portrayal in his fantastic film)

@torgeirbrandsnes1916 2 года назад

Nothing new under the sun. Same problems different wrapping…

@Nettiekins1959 Год назад

My dad was a Teddy Boy. He had to hide his jacket from his parents! I was a Teddy Girl in the 80s. We have the best music.

@thebeatnumber 7 месяцев назад

What kind of music did the different generations of Teddy Boys listen to?

@Nettiekins1959 7 месяцев назад

@@thebeatnumber my dad liked Buddy Holly, The Everleys, Conway Twitty, Jim Reeves, early Johnny Cash (Ballad of a Teenage Queen was on '45). Liked the same artists plus Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, UK bands like Matchbox, The Jets. I listen to all of these artists every day.

@pollardkelly Год назад

I love it when the lady said she blames the parents. We’ll me to luv, if it wasn’t for my stepdad I wouldn’t be a Ted.

@bombski5657 2 года назад

These people now sit and moan about today's youth 😂

@adonaiyah2196 2 года назад

I can't believe boys wearing suits were considered rough and rowdy. These people would have a heart attack if they some roadmen

@Tmuk2 2 года назад

Shows how far we've fallen

@olivercuenca4109 2 года назад

There's roadmen and roadmen, and there's teddy boys and teddy boys. Teddy boys were treated like that because they dressed like the petty criminals of their day. Same today. Lots of ordinary kids just dressing a certain way to look edgy, mixed with a few actual criminals. Most of these 'roadmen' are just kids. It doesn't show anything except a desire for rebellion, let alone 'how far we've fallen', Tmuk2

@Tmuk2 2 года назад

@@olivercuenca4109 compare the murder rates in London from 1955 to today

@olivercuenca4109 2 года назад

@@Tmuk2 Compare the Crays and the Richardsons to today's small fry county liners

@Tmuk2 Год назад

@@olivercuenca4109 The Krays murdered 2 people. Big wow.

@blissy1 2 года назад

0:14 If a woman would try that in todays London, it would be another knife crime statistic

@fuckbankers 2 года назад

Teds used cut throat razors

@CB1000FP1 2 года назад

Do you mean the woman would have just stabbed him, some of these old dears are deadly

@marymary5494 Год назад

Wouldn’t it be great to catch up with these boys.

@pasha578 2 года назад

Mike and Pat were probably called up for National Service the following year. On the plus side, that might have given Mike his opportunity to visit Africa. Or Malaya. Or Aden ....

@manaih5652 2 года назад

Wasn’t National Service super boring?

@pasha578 2 года назад

@@manaih5652 I think for many National Serviceman it was pretty boring, at least after their initial training. Unlike the Americans, who only called up draft quotas to fill manning levels, the UK called up everyone who was eligible (theoretically). So we had a lot more than were needed, which meant a lot of guys spent the majority of their time painting rocks and the like. For others though they could be spent on active service anywhere from Korea to Kenya.

@manaih5652 2 года назад

@@pasha578 thanks so much for this great reply!

@fluffyhead6377 2 года назад

I met an old man who went to Aden, he said he would walk along side a truck holding a bed sheet up next to the head lamp so the enemy couldn’t see it so well at night, he said it didn’t work 100% he got shot at nearly every night he still had the sheet with bullet holes on it.

@fluffyhead6377 2 года назад

@@crispindry2815 I didn’t make it up, the old guy may have exaggerated a bit, he was in his late 90s and was still working on the yard of a builders merchant so I have no doubt he was a tough man.

@jaymac7203 7 месяцев назад

Apparently being annoyed at young people is universal over the generations lol Although the "dressing up" is way more disturbing today 😭

@jdm65 2 года назад

"A load of crumb"

@rabbieburns2501 2 года назад

Language, Timothy!

@nigeljames6017 Год назад

“Mike the Welder” leaning back describing his lifestyle was pure Monty Python, my was he way ahead of his time !

@elkpaz560 3 дня назад

Monty Python was the comedy of a group of privileged middle class kids. Unlike these kids they even escaped the war.

@harperwelch5147 3 месяца назад

“Evacuated”. A childhood without parental love. A fostered life. Don’t you think he might look for a sense of belonging?

@JP.708 2 года назад

"a big dosey blonde"🤣🤣

@fuckbankers 2 года назад

She'd have to be

@fidelcatsro6948 2 года назад

1:24 that cute dog must be over 65yrs old today!

@garryleeks4848 2 года назад

Still chasing the stick today 👍

@fidelcatsro6948 2 года назад

@@garryleeks4848 woof woof 🐕

@garryleeks4848 2 года назад

@@fidelcatsro6948 🦮fetch boy

@NoosaHeads 2 года назад

This was 67 years ago, he'll be 84rys. (in 2022). Arthritis, erectile dysfunction, emphysema, chest pains, Alzheimer's, bald, skin cancers, scrotum down to his knees, haemorrhoids the size of Texas - and false teeth. Apart from those minor ailments, exactly the same as in 1955.

@garryleeks4848 2 года назад

@@NoosaHeads anything you missed 😂

@oliverwortley3822 Год назад

they’re all very attractive

@soundseeker63 Год назад

Compare these lads to the typical youth of London today and its a wonder quite what any of the parents were actually worried about! They seem positively delightful in that they don't seem the type to go around mugging people and stabbing each other. They also speak proper English. How times change!

@KingpinTBM Год назад

You call that proper English?

@sensimania Год назад

Yes! Positively "delightful" when they're not jumping and beating on people who didn't look like them 🙄

@Tototoo88 7 месяцев назад

Most people on the streets today are just like this. We perceive them as worst than they are just like they did back then.

@easyreader6179 2 года назад

I can't imagine a woman punching a gang leader today and getting away with it.

@dzenacs2011 2 года назад

This actress can

@pommunist 2 года назад

@@dzenacs2011 They were probably scared she'd tell their Mothers

@ajs41 Год назад

A gang member at that time would have been ashamed to attack a woman or an old person, even if they had attacked him first.

@easyreader6179 Год назад

@@ajs41 yes.. I remember front page headlines in the late 1980s when two elderly women were beaten and robbed for their purses. People were horrified. Now it's so common they rarely get reported.

@markblakeut 2 года назад

The woman at the beginning is hilarious!

@petermello55 Год назад

07:10 It’s amazing how convinced people can be that they’re right. Being wrong never crosses their mind.

@jaymac7203 7 месяцев назад

Like flat earthers 😭 lol

@greenbunnyinabongo7299 Год назад

“I gave him a good punching on the nose“ 😂😂😂

@josephsolowyk7697 Год назад

That first woman was such a stooge.

@af98 Год назад

To think the woman wouldve been q young woman in the 30s and gone through the wars. I dont why but I find it so amazing.

@alangiles2763 2 года назад

I am sure they were actors reading a script, especially the old harridan who allegedly punched one of them when he accosted her

@dzenacs2011 2 года назад

Yeah actors. last one "his dad" thinks he is in the movie or something

@repentbeforeitstoolate..8239 2 года назад

You need your eyes tested!.😑 She's Young.🙄

@altudy 2 года назад

Yes, I got that impression. The way the 'father' talked about 'the boy' and 'the child' it was quite clear they were in no way related. It was an actor repeating conventional judgements about the young.

@alangiles2763 2 года назад

@@altudy Dad sounded far too posh to have a son like that, frankly, and the voice of the woman who claimed she punched one of the boys on the nose, sounded like the late Hilda Fenemore, who cropped up in dozens of films and thousands of TV shows from the 50s to the 80s - she might have dubbed and lip-sinked the woman you saw. With a dad reading Plato, I suppose it is just possible the son was rebeling (I knew a vicars son who became one of the more extreme punk rockers), but I suspect the voices were actors though the lads might have been real teddy boys - whoever they were, you wonder what happened to them, as the 17 year olds would have been conscripted into the services a year or so later. woder if that made them rebel more or conform like their parents wanted?. Sad to think they are now either very elderly or dead.

@darrenhems2291 2 года назад

Like they're reading it

@1258-Eckhart 2 года назад

They all gave the impression of reading a script.

@dzenacs2011 2 года назад

They all actors

@martm216 2 года назад

That's the impression I got. I guess television was very much in its infancy in those days, so they were careful over how they did things. Plus it reflects the more 'correct' culture of those times. But yes, it did seem scripted, rehearsed.

@pinkchampagne3718 2 года назад

@@martm216 Nothing changes

@af98 Год назад

Back then people purposely spoke in this way infront of the camera. This still happens in some parts of the world. Where they will speak in the standard/formal language even though it's not anywhere close to the language they actually speak, infront of cameras and stand really upright.

@ajs41 Год назад

@@martm216 I don't think it is scripted or rehearsed. It's just the way people talked and behaved in those days.

@normanmunns4743 2 года назад

These are not genuine Teddy boys. It's all scripted with actors

@neasahayes6044 2 года назад

Yes definitely.

@johndean4765 10 месяцев назад

Norman agree these boys are fake teddy boys,no rebellious attitude.everything they say scripted,they even sound pleasant when they speak. NOT real Teddy Boys ,just actors.

@1220b Год назад

Teddy boy, mods,beatnecks, hippies, skins, rockers, punks, new romantic, acid house, grunge, emo. Etc

@faithrewarded7486 8 месяцев назад

What a shame man's fashion, like this, is now reduced to pretentious hipsters, offices and niche revival clubs. It's one of those where, in it's day it looked great, if you try to do it now you look like someone in a fancy dress costume or en route to court.

@arilebon 2 года назад

'that boy' - when referring to his son. Perhaps common terminology back then.

@rabbieburns2501 2 года назад

Nope, just actors reading a script

@repentbeforeitstoolate..8239 2 года назад

Yes it was.

@brijones 2 года назад

my father was an original teddyboy from battersea

@garryleeks4848 2 года назад

They will be in there late 80s now 😬

@fidelcatsro6948 2 года назад

if theyre still alive..

@marklloyd4087 2 года назад

Yep my dad was a Teddy 😁

@Mistydazzle 2 года назад

@@marklloyd4087 how did his life turn out, then? I would have loved to have heard an update about the guys in this film. Youth is so fleeting.

@dzenacs2011 2 года назад

You are one of these low iq morons repeating this usual comment on old videos

@version736ha2 2 года назад

These are actors aren't they?

@MiKeMiDNiTe-77 2 года назад

One of their ideal women is "a big dozy blonde" hahaha just to think this is 20 years b4 the punks and people thought these guys were bad 👎

@Rainman000 2 года назад

15 years later There was a song on Paul McCartney first solo record after the Beatles broke up. The name of the song was TEDDY BOY. Give it a listen, its a brilliant song especially the version which he was rehearsing with the Beatles at EMI.

@blissy1 2 года назад

Love that track, great album bowl of cherries on the album cover

@_MaxHeadroom_ 2 года назад

John Lennon was a teddy boy himself during the early Quarrymen days

@hazelwray4184 2 года назад

@@_MaxHeadroom_ They (The Beatles) were all rock n rollers in Hamburg. Little Gene Vincents in their leathers. One fateful day Paul McCartney played 'twenty flight rock' in front of Lennon at the village hall/fete.

@onkarfreshie3127 2 года назад

The Dad has the same issues as all nowadays dads. 😆

@pressureworks 2 года назад

Looking for the brief documentary about the gangs of grannies, or even the one about the vicious gangs of keep left signs.

@DoyleHargraves Год назад

I only 1st saw teddy boys in a youtube clip of a Bo Diddley concert in England in the late 50s or early 60s. They were all dancing like crazy. Lol

@Talboy-p4e 8 месяцев назад

Great days 1960 Just teenage fashion looking cool for the ladies And it was cool to have a job

@fuckbankers 2 года назад

“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”

@fuckbankers 2 года назад

Aristotle

@elkpaz560 3 дня назад

These kids endured the second world war - although interestingly evacuees sometimes lucked out - getting out of the confines of London but still separated from their parents must have been a trauma.

@7colliemac Год назад

I was a rocker, it’s the idea of shocking people, hanging out in gangs acting tough, we had tight hipster jeans, studded belts, leather jackets, pointy boots.. I liked punk because it reminded me of being a rocker.

@Onemoreround500 7 месяцев назад

Was u a red devil south london 1960s

@albert21able 2 года назад

British working class Youth Culture! Where have they all gone in a Broken Fragmentated todays Britain.

@michaelpearson1272 8 месяцев назад

They where called widgies and bodgies in Australia

@Nicefro1976 2 года назад

This all looks and sounds painfully scripted and staged. Can't believe many at the time thought it was authentic.

@rabbieburns2501 2 года назад

Some people even now don't see that, mate

@johndean4765 10 месяцев назад

100%Scripted probably actors ,they didn't come over as real Teddy boys who had a real aggressive way about them.and were feared by many people.

@raolhooley 2 года назад

This is all scripted ..not real

@marcbrown9001 7 месяцев назад

Imagine what those people who didn't like "Teddy boys" would make of people today and woke lmfao 😂 🤣

@alangiles2763 2 года назад

at 4 minute they are litening to the Ted Heath Band playing Lullaby of Birdland, issue by Decca in 1954

@pyewackett5 2 года назад

If you hadn't have pointed it out , then I would have :)

@basedscotsman8142 2 года назад

who doesn't like a big dozy blonde. lol.

@larryrussell1809 Год назад

Most of them still had respect for the older people

@bradford_shaun_murray Год назад

0:42 👀

@cooldaddy2877 Год назад

Yes, we did. We were not really rebelling against anything or anybody....just having a good time, dressing cool and listening to music.

@kenstubbs6878 Год назад

I was 8 yrs old do remember them in Woolwich South East London.

@clarsach29 8 месяцев назад

The Teds got a bad rap because before then there really wasn't any teenage rebellion or even any teenagers as a group.....people left school and went straight into work, going from being children to adults in one quick step at the age of 14 or 15. Compared to some teenagers today the Teds seem responsible, hardworking and just looking to enjoy being young, free and single while they can. I think the publican in this film summed it up best with his opinion.

@joannamillan8882 8 месяцев назад

My dad was a teddy boy he's told me it was the best days of his lifeoved the music too 🙂

@Jumpmaster337 2 года назад

Thought the first guy was Tom Hardy!

@garryleeks4848 2 года назад

I was thinking that , maybe he’s grandad

@factorylad5071 2 года назад

I was 33 days old when this came out.

@WordsInVain 3 месяца назад

So, you're saying you're 68?

@skinlesswalnut6259 2 года назад

My dad says he was a teddy boy but he was born in 1956? Lmao 🤣

@jemmajames6719 2 года назад

It kept being fashionable last time was early eighties.

@tobybaker5187 2 года назад

Teds were still about in the late 70's having fights with punks.

@cooldaddy2877 Год назад

He was probably a second generation Teddy Boy.

@csb7376 Год назад

"Plato's theories and all that caper"

@jamesjames2070 7 месяцев назад

My dad was a ted in greenock Scotland in the early 50s. I miss him alot

@ericajohnson3504 2 года назад

Just teenagers being teenagers, following fashion and enjoying life as best they can. Could be any other teenager in the years since. Adults always find teenagers threatening and difficult to understand.

@PeterShieldsukcatstripey Год назад

Edwardian clothes would give you a good feeilng. Feel more like a man, which young lads need to learn how to do.

@jango7889 Год назад

these are just 1950 sigma males

@sniferlip 7 месяцев назад

0:01....That's Tom Hardy!!

@KeithLouis-h4u Год назад

I'm a ted the dress is smart and the music fantastic god bless rock n roll thank god I'm a ted

@itk2493 2 года назад

Pure class both Teds and MODS, well dressed, looked sharp, compare that to the garbage clothes teenagers wear today with their tacky white trainers. Boys today are so effeminate.

@eldiablo3794 3 месяца назад

They kinda remind me of a cross between a greaser and a mod.

@broccoliface4501 2 года назад

They look like the chavs, or roadmen, of the 50s.

@andyc6542 2 года назад

Nothing like it. Chavs were cheap tacky clothes from Sports Direct. Teddy Boys wore suits and made an effort to look well presentable.

@broccoliface4501 2 года назад

@@andyc6542 Not as in aesthetic, but social niche

@jonmac1987 2 года назад

@@andyc6542 I think you're applying a bit of modern bias and wearing your rose-tinted glasses for this video clip - in my younger days, I knew many a roadman that did the roadman equivalent of what these Teddy boys do here and take their threads super serious. If tailor-made suits cost what they did in 1955 then you'd see all the 'mandem' out on road in them right now.

@simonablett8613 6 месяцев назад

How the world has changed. I wonder what happened to these lads?

@chrisellis1232 2 года назад

Actors all 🤔

@L_Martin 2 года назад

This reminds me of John Lennon, who started out as a poser Teddy Boy. The hair do was called a duck's arse, wasn't it? Because of the quiff in the front.