SHARPIES of MELBOURNE 1970s THEN & NOW updated (Rose Tattoo - Black Eyed Bruiser / One Of The Boys)
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- SHARPIES (SHARPS) were the prominent youth subculture of Melbourne (Australia) in the 1970s. This is a collection of pics of some Sharpies and how they look 30-40 years on, including current releases of literature, art and music albums dedicated to or inspired by Sharpies... to the music of Rose Tattoo.. an Aussie band revered by the Sharpies right from their inception.
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i'm american and until youtube came along i'd never even heard of 'ROSE TATTOO' let alone sharpies. amazing all he shit that can be a big deal in one part of the world and inknown in another.
Great culture, the good old days,RIP Pete ,Dallas,Mick,Ian Tatts for ever.
Bloody Great songs..Admiration for everyone in this video .I was a Skinhead in England late 60s Early 70s..Now 68 and still a Skinhead today..I understand how these Sharpies must feel now ..Great times to be young lots of Great memories from years gone by..
Enjoy your life Enjoy your memories.Regards to you all.
Skinheads Life Would Never Be The Same..Albo ..
I was born in 67 so was a bit young to be a sharpie, but i got hand me downs of stagger jeans, blue on blue or brown on brown connies, big platforms shoes/boots, glad i grew up in the 80's with pretty girls, golden brown tan's and big hair
Yes I had a blue on Blue Connie and Levi jeans and some trends blue on Blue trends they were great mid 70s late 70s
Outstanding clip mate all best times and music and memories all the best to all my old friends chaps
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it
Gerat pictures,an awesome collage
Beautiful people, then and now. A glimpse into a better time when Australia was still Australia.
Énorme, fantastique, prodigieux !!!
Une vidéo sur les SHARPIES avec Rose TATTOO !!!!
Encore merci.
Vive l Australie.
I was a kid in the 70's living in UK but elements of this look and culture were present in the UK at that time too, including that "disaffected youth/bored" expression. Nothing as cool and as sharp as this though. Love the style and the sounds and the hair! Skins before there were skins in UK. Mohawks before there were punks! Killin' it Melbourne!
skinheads originated from mods in england in the late 60s and morphed into the suedehead look in early 70s, a few years before the aussie sharpies were around. The uk skinhead revival came about in the mid to late 70s in the uk,with punk . You can see how the sharpies have a few similarities with british skinheads of the late 60s.
Nice collection. I was to young for the Sharpies, born mid 70's, but i find it interesting; some of the look and attitudes lived on in other sub cultures it seemed..
If only I'd gone to Melbourne my life would have been so different
I was at the concert in 1974 in Melbourne and had a good time.A lot of these people look better now!
Omg love this, brings back so many memories 🤭
Great memories for you guys.
DAM I REMEMBER THE SHARPIES SKINHEADS IWAS A ROCKER for Springvale thanks ,so many memories
ROCKERS FOR EVERY!!
I loved Melbourne when I was there ( South Croydon). I was a Mod but definitely would've been a Sharpie had I been old enough and there during that time. ..so cool. Hats off to these guys.
I remember when crowds of Sharpies ussd to hang around "under the clocks" at Flinders Street Station. I went to school with a Sharpie boy who went on to have a very high ranking job at Ambulance Victoria!
I love your content. Especially as it with the Tatts in the background. My sons (25 and 17) grew up with me bopping round the house doing housework to t he Tatts and singing every word to most of their songs. Well it was one way for a girl to make the housework fun. I also have come back in to see you doing the sharpies dance to Gary Glitter rock n roll .. and am gutted. It is GONE. It was such a fun video to watch and see a guy rocking the sharpie dance hard out to that song. You were just having so much fun and it looked like you were dancing with me haha. Silly huh. anyway I hope you put it back up.
Hi, I'm glad that you are enjoying my videos. I haven't had one with Gary Glitter though. 😊
I do the housework listening to the Tatt's real loud now.... So do the neighbours... and their neighbours....their neighbours as well.
Gotta be LOUD!!!!
Great shots, ⚡️
Kind of sad to see how the power and beauty of their youth faded, mind you, some of the dudes are still scary and some of the women actually got better with age. There is something really cool about Sharpie culture, Respect.
You have to be honest all these years later they still look very Sharp.
bloody love it! what a walk down memory lane! (o:
I know Shorty. He used to live Locally. Now I think he's around Ringwood.
Some of those girls are like a fine wine ; get better with age.
Saw Mick many times at the Tote. Shame he buzzed that beer bottle at the manager's head that night
Saw Mick at the Mail Exchange hotel in the city during the footy season, I also used see at the MCG as he like myself is passionate Richmond as is Linda who have have known since the early 90s
Must have been a Melbourne thing.
In 1974 I was 18yo and residing in outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Sharpies were extremely disliked in my area and as a rule of thumb were to be avoided, as trouble usually followed.
Punch you in the head because you had the wrong haircut or clothes.
I'm sure there were decent ones of course, but them was the rules out in the burbs in those days.
Besides they were crap dancers .... hahaaaaa
I seen the guy David at 0:51 in his car he pulled up next to us at the lights on Waverley Road and we knew it was him, then I went into Waverley Antiques and he was in there looking at records, cant remember what I said I was a bit nervous but he was pretty cool !
Haha.. Dave's a puppy 🐶
what happened to sharpies in the 80s? I'm only 38 so I went thru my teen years with surfies and homies...lol. I have a 14 yr old boy and I've got no idea what is out there now.
Sharpies effectively died out post 1980 - I reckon the AC/DC Back in Black gig at the Myer Music Bowl was the last big hurrah for the sharpie movement. Why did it die out ? Guys were getting older and they were getting sick of the aggro or people were ending up in the can or dead from drugs, so the ranks thinned out rapidly. Post 1980 the younger Middle Eastern gangs become very popular in Melb city - Black Dragons, Lebanese Tigers, Turkish Lions.
I know I'm 3 years late to the conversation but here goes! I'm 26 now. Boys and girls just kinda congregate within school groups around the shopping centres nowadays from what I can gather. Attire is usually sportswear and leisurewear brands (Adidas, Nike, Champion, Nautica, Tommy Hilfiger) with an emphasis on expensive sneakers from designer brands (knock offs for those who aren't rich). Lots of 90s styles like baggy jeans, oversized sweaters, crop tops, fanny packs etc. Rap and hip-hop are more mainstream than ever. Traditional pop artists are being rejected. More wars fought on social media than anything.
When I was in my teens, the goth/emo/scene thing was cool, influenced by bands like Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy. I wanted to dye my hair pitch black so badly (mum wouldn't let me - thank goodness). Before that, the surfer and skate things was cool (wearing Billabong, Rip Curl, Roxy, Trigger Trackies, Etnies, DC, Volcom). Basically hanging at the beach and skate park all day.
Gostei!
Great pictures worked really well with acdc bloody copyright laws you would have thought there would be an exemption for 70s sharps.
i doubt whether they (the boys from ac/dc) as individuals have any say in those kind of things, theres probably an army of record company lawyer parasites who earn a living by persuing copy write type infringements.
They were long before punk !
Hung around the flinder st clocks 74/75 with the city sharps few have passed on good days then like the old saying goes nothing good last forever
I was only talking to my mother the other night she said she hung out with Charlie's. Her name was Vicki. I'll have to send this clip to her.
Wee Stevie... Forever Bon's Dad!
02:55 it’s Gillard!
lot of good looking people there
I remember chappy from the western suburbs :)
Hey mate its chaps thanks for remembering me great wild times and music
influenced by slade
Only crims, jail, had Tatts in the 1970s Australia, if you had one you were considered low scum. Now today everyone has tough stickers
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Looks like many haven't moved on
What's the first riff?
Rose Tattoo doing a cover of Stevie Wright's song Black Eyed Bruiser
cheers man....a meaty thing it is
Hold up, Snatch is my woodwork teacher...
Haha
3:36 - how cute was she ??
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Rough as guts
Some look better now then they did then !! Strange fashion !! Kind of reminds me of Skinheads in the UK in the late 70s and 80s .But like across between punks and skinheads !! The tops seem like from the USA ! But what's with the shoes? The shoes don't seem to fit !! You'd expect boots more like brown DMs or black bovver boots rather than platform shoes ! Kind of remind be of Sham 69 and The Clash sort of thing !! Greetings from Sam ,Pommie / Irish now living in Crete , Greece!!
Joanne the dropkick
Geez, what a rough lot.
Most haven't changed really, still bogan but older. Just kidding. The guys look so much better at a "mature age" and some of the "ladies" from back in the day have turned out quite cute. But great days indeed, and it wasn't as rough or violent as the media portrayed it, in fact many sharpies and their so called "opposites" were good friends and many remain so to this day. And as weird as this may be, quite few sharpies, mods and rockers ended up in the police, ambulance and fire brigade, as well as in the military, so they can't all have been to court!
Are regrets. We have a few
Peter sobrios
I wanna be a fosters ranger
The older guy sharps look like bin men or miners
I think they’d just be called bogans these days. With respect, Angry was so tough but he couldn’t walk the Kokoda Track like our ANZACS???
Have you walked that track Scott Roberts, or do you just like to give backhanded "compliments"? "With respect"?.. where, and how, do you show your "respect".?.
I'M OLD NOW OH MEMORIES WHEN YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING LOL DRINKING AT THE PUB AT 15 YRS DOING WHAT YA WANTED MY LIFE SO LONG AGO I WISH L COULD GO BACK AND BE EVEN NAUGHTY ER LOL
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