@@BradBrassman I knew one skinhead in the late 80s. I would've been 19 at the time, he was nearly 30 with a Spanish girlfriend. They were the actual "This Is England" skins from the 80s. They were at my old workplace. Really good people.
I was a skinhead later on in the mid 1980's. Had my left ear pierced as well, which a few of us lads ended up doing. I remember the lady at the jewelers, who did the ear piercing, freaking out because she had never pierced a boys ear before. I had to point out that it said on the shop window, "ear piercing done here, no appointment necessary." She still tried to put me off by telling me how much ear piercing hurt. Lol. I was a 15 year old skinhead after all. No amount of pain was going to put me off getting that ear piercing stud fired in my ear. She then rather reluctantly went ahead and pierced my ear. Couldn't believe how little it hurt, after all the fuss she had made. On a family holiday shortly afterwards at a seaside town in North Wales, a shopkeeper barred me from entering his shop because "l don't have your sort in my shop." l don't know if it was the crew cut or the ear stud or the Doc Martyn's or all 3 even. I didn't even have my donkey jacket on as it was so hot that day. The funniest part was my Dad ended up having an argument with the store keeper telling him l wasn't a thug, its the fashion these days and so on, despite up till that point berating me for looking like a thug with my pierced ear etc. After that he never mentioned anything about how l looked again. Lol. Those were the days.
I'm a motorcyclist. I'm not a skinhead, though I know the culture beyond the clichés, but I do get those kind of reactions sometimes when I have my gear on…
@@andrewcottington3742 you were doing your best to look like a neo nazi and wonder why people judged your appearance? You're obviously not too intelligent.
In 69 i was a 14 yr old chelsea boy....loved seeing the chelsea skins travel the country following chelsea....home ends they permiated.....remember Harkins and eventually was old enough for his coaches away.....he was always immaculate....
I like the fashions of the original 69 skins very smart you can see how it came from the mod movement years earlier and the suedhead fashions clean neat and sharp
I remember it well. My dad and mom were too straight. They wouldn't let me get Docs. I had cheap knock-offs. My dad was a short-back-and-sides man and when I came back from the barber`s with a skin-head he went ballistic. He told me to get back down the barbers. I asked him what he thought they could do, "stick it back on" maybe? Lol I suffered for that one for a while.
Remember my brother trying cut his hair, he fcked up so he shaved it all off. Headmaster sent him home and said don't come back till its grown a bit. He just said goodbye then. Lol My old man just laughed at him.
@@tub19 Lol. Looks dam smart but they don`t like to lose feeling of control when the kids all share something. They love you to wear a uniform though. Tossers
Blimey O’reilly !!! Just came across this. The bloke right at the beginning, with the long sideburns, is Danny Harkins. He was a face at Chelsea and his nickname was Eccles. I used to stand next to him in the Shed !!! 🤣🤣
I was a part of it from my first cut at 12 years old in that year. I got suspended from school and my Dad went mad but a week later he was cool and bought me my first cherry Docs. The look, the music and the sense of belonging. Great days, when we had something in common with the rude boys and before the racists took it over and ruined it
Oh, yes. I can't even begin to understand how the real skinheads must have felt when the boneheads came in and ruined the party… Without the "real" skinheads, we might have never discovered ska and reggae, so we owe them a huge thank you !
@@pateris The problem was that we all got older and the influx of boneheads, as you put it so well, was gradual. By the time we understood that what we love had been corrupted, it was too late. Some of us still live the life but it has been a continual struggle to educate people to see we are not all neo-Nazis and racists.
@@Outspoken.Humanist Though I have sinned in my days, when the bonehead had the upper hand. I've changed (though I'm still Antifa as heck to the core !) The last time I chatted with a skinhead, he was happy when I told him "so you're a real skin, not a bonehead."
I was a skinhead in the early 70s there is a lot written about it but only if you were there do you know how it really was , the later skinheads were nothing like us and should never be compared in any way but the haircut , we were not racist, the Jamaicans and whites got on great , we werent nazis either and we had a lot of really good times , yes there were punchups , drinking etc but old people , women were respected and knives were never carried
right up to the last sentence ,i was with you ! I was a diddy skin in the late 70s , a Moddish Casual in the 80s , Acid House changed everything ! But going back to to your last sentence .. Teds carried razors , Mods and Skins were tooled up , and Casuals , well lets be honest it wasnt noddy land , Stanley knives were definately used ....
@@croydonable that may be the case i your experience but not in mine , in tha area i lived anyone carrying a knife would have and indeed was given a good hiding , i remember in the 80s and 90s stanley knives were used by scumbags , things and people had changed , the next generation of skinheads really did not have any resemblance to our time , but then neither did anything else in life
I wonder if anyone else remembers this episode of the BBC crime series 'Softly Softly Task Force' from September 1970 - the first 4 minutes shows how skinheads dealt with illegal immigrants back in the day (the ringleader's girlfriend is the actress Vicki Michelle from '80s sitcom ''Allo 'Allo'): th-cam.com/video/xIFdHfH_uJ4/w-d-xo.html
Most skinheads had a big brother that used to be a mod a couple of years back - it weren't like the 80's when they were kicking the shit out of each other.
Danny [ Eccles] Harkins well known skinhead of the late 60s Early 70s. Great times. I have lots of great memories of those days The clothes the music. Skinheads and Skinhead Girls. When Skinheads were worthy of the name Skinhead. Skinheads Life Would Never Be The Same.
They also hated Pakistanis. You can't sugar-coat the fact that even some of the original skinheads committed what we today would call hate crimes against Asians.
That's true but my uncle was a skinhead at the time and they could be a bit racist. I think it was just an ordinary working class view of other races in the 60s and early 70s .
Yeah that's a bit of revisionist history I think. You can see from the captions that the 4 being interviewed are going on about Pakistanis and the crowd shots are of Chelsea skins who've always been connected with the far right.
Personally I think the 80's skineads were rough tough kid's following an ideal they really didn't understand but that's what it was like growing up in Thatcher's eighty's.....
@@arfermo853 My point's also, more, if they go bald and then cannot - or else find it extremely difficult to - get any girls, then they'll know all about it.
66 years old……..lived it!!!!!!!!
Same Jonny not far of 65 now..great days eh:)
Yeah I'm 66 year's and loved it to great times and still a skin
64 years old and still the same as I was back then,
Spirit of 69 North London Skinheads
68 and still got the attitude
Cheers to the old school but I came up second wave Oi! It's better to be pissed off than pissed on!
Great to sea the original 1969 skinheads ,the old 50s cars on the road ,that atmosphere of the kate 60s ,and of course early Rocksteady reggae ❤
Historical document. These were the real deal.
Aye, hard to fathom, but most will be in their 60's by now!
@@BradBrassman I knew one skinhead in the late 80s. I would've been 19 at the time, he was nearly 30 with a Spanish girlfriend. They were the actual "This Is England" skins from the 80s. They were at my old workplace. Really good people.
@@BradBrassman - or their 70s.
Eccles!!! Danny is still going, myself too. I'm 68 nowadays and still a skin.
Long live Symarip.
Wish I was still part of the group...68...need to piss every right mins...equals no beer...retire
@michaelMix-fl9ic You'll always be part of it mate. Once a Chelsea skinhead forever a Chelsea skinhead 🤜🏼🤛🏼
I remember reading "Skinhead" published by the New English Library, great book. Along with "Chopper" and "Suedehead".
yeah collectors items now
I was obsessed with those books as a twelve year old.
Some great haircuts so cool
I was a skinhead later on in the mid 1980's. Had my left ear pierced as well, which a few of us lads ended up doing. I remember the lady at the jewelers, who did the ear piercing, freaking out because she had never pierced a boys ear before.
I had to point out that it said on the shop window, "ear piercing done here, no appointment necessary."
She still tried to put me off by telling me how much ear piercing hurt. Lol. I was a 15 year old skinhead after all. No amount of pain was going to put me off getting that ear piercing stud fired in my ear. She then rather reluctantly went ahead and pierced my ear. Couldn't believe how little it hurt, after all the fuss she had made.
On a family holiday shortly afterwards at a seaside town in North Wales, a shopkeeper barred me from entering his shop because "l don't have your sort in my shop." l don't know if it was the crew cut or the ear stud or the Doc Martyn's or all 3 even. I didn't even have my donkey jacket on as it was so hot that day. The funniest part was my Dad ended up having an argument with the store keeper telling him l wasn't a thug, its the fashion these days and so on, despite up till that point berating me for looking like a thug with my pierced ear etc. After that he never mentioned anything about how l looked again. Lol. Those were the days.
I'm a motorcyclist. I'm not a skinhead, though I know the culture beyond the clichés, but I do get those kind of reactions sometimes when I have my gear on…
@@pateris Yeah its sad when people judge you by how you look, (although it can to be fair be funny as well) rather than the person you are.
@@andrewcottington3742 Most indeedy !
@@andrewcottington3742 you were doing your best to look like a neo nazi and wonder why people judged your appearance? You're obviously not too intelligent.
Nothing smarter then a skinhead with ear pierced and wearing 14/20 hole Dr martens boots I still wear Dr martens boots they are the best
Still wearing me Harrington with pride 😎
It's funny how the Harrington has now become the attire for old men. 😊
@@ohcrikey9560 I is a girl 😜
@@lornawillockify 🤣
Nice one I still wear Dr martens boots
The Harrington jacket is still a great classic jacket to wear especially with 14/20 hole Dr martens boots the best boots ever made
I'd love to see these guys nowadays.
First met
Eccles 69 when about 200 of us
Liverpool skinheads went into the shed we got hammered great agro great times
Godder
Liverpool skinhead
In 69 i was a 14 yr old chelsea boy....loved seeing the chelsea skins travel the country following chelsea....home ends they permiated.....remember Harkins and eventually was old enough for his coaches away.....he was always immaculate....
Rent Boys 🤣
i was a fulham skinhead in the 80s had some great times down fulham palace road
@@keithseddon8150 what a stupid comment ...... Chelsea in London were at the forefront of Skinhead culture ( and i`m QPR ! )
I like the fashions of the original 69 skins very smart you can see how it came from the mod movement years earlier and the suedhead fashions clean neat and sharp
I remember it well. My dad and mom were too straight. They wouldn't let me get Docs. I had cheap knock-offs. My dad was a short-back-and-sides man and when I came back from the barber`s with a skin-head he went ballistic. He told me to get back down the barbers. I asked him what he thought they could do, "stick it back on" maybe? Lol I suffered for that one for a while.
Remember my brother trying cut his hair, he fcked up so he shaved it all off. Headmaster sent him home and said don't come back till its grown a bit. He just said goodbye then. Lol
My old man just laughed at him.
@@tub19 Lol. Looks dam smart but they don`t like to lose feeling of control when the kids all share something. They love you to wear a uniform though. Tossers
your mom ?
@@croydonable My mom?
Brilliant ,the original late 60s skins ,notice the old cars too ,a delve rite into the past.
What ever happened to British sub culture? It used to be very prevalent amongst the youth, nothing like it anymore
Blimey O’reilly !!! Just came across this. The bloke right at the beginning, with the long sideburns, is Danny Harkins. He was a face at Chelsea and his nickname was Eccles. I used to stand next to him in the Shed !!! 🤣🤣
Many thanks Bovver Koenig, ace tune.
Never heard that. Can you help me with the name of the tune?
@@cuauticool Sorry mate, subtitles on your vid were Hungarian, not German. So you're the Bovver Király. See Nipple Erectors on Venus.
@@cuauticool Junior Byles……Auntie Lu Lu
Big brown boots and yellow laces we are the skinhead aces.
Where me Martins tight I wear me slack
If I see a sunderland fan I'd give him a smack 😊
Happy days thanks for the memories
Great tune as well auntie lulu.b side to big 8 load tyrell..
Loyd not load lol
I've been tradskin in for 2 years. I still don't undertstand when young people calling me a nazi. I aint no nazi, I am a passifist.
Ska Rocksteady and Roots Reggae are my favorite music. Never have I heard this Junior Byles chune - bless up Idren.
Long live Eccles!
Millwall skinhead and proud
Remember at forest 1971 eccles leading chelsea mob got a bit lively forest were up for it......
"Bloody hell" my giddy aunt, that took me back a bit, Eh! Crikey.
Back in the good old days when u needed a tin-opener to open a tin of beans.Miss it.
Great song..
In 1969, in Bristol there, was a barbers called “Mimos”, if you couldn’t afford to pay for a Number 1 he would cut an “M” in your hair
I was a part of it from my first cut at 12 years old in that year. I got suspended from school and my Dad went mad but a week later he was cool and bought me my first cherry Docs. The look, the music and the sense of belonging. Great days, when we had something in common with the rude boys and before the racists took it over and ruined it
Oh, yes. I can't even begin to understand how the real skinheads must have felt when the boneheads came in and ruined the party… Without the "real" skinheads, we might have never discovered ska and reggae, so we owe them a huge thank you !
@@pateris The problem was that we all got older and the influx of boneheads, as you put it so well, was gradual. By the time we understood that what we love had been corrupted, it was too late. Some of us still live the life but it has been a continual struggle to educate people to see we are not all neo-Nazis and racists.
@@Outspoken.Humanist Yes, I know, that's what I meant, it must have been dreadfully painful to see your values corrupted that way…
@@pateris It was and still is but thank you for understanding. So many people today know nothing of the original skinhead culture. Have a great day
@@Outspoken.Humanist Though I have sinned in my days, when the bonehead had the upper hand. I've changed (though I'm still Antifa as heck to the core !) The last time I chatted with a skinhead, he was happy when I told him "so you're a real skin, not a bonehead."
I was a skinhead in the early 70s there is a lot written about it but only if you were there do you know how it really was , the later skinheads were nothing like us and should never be compared in any way but the haircut , we were not racist, the Jamaicans and whites got on great , we werent nazis either and we had a lot of really good times , yes there were punchups , drinking etc but old people , women were respected and knives were never carried
right up to the last sentence ,i was with you !
I was a diddy skin in the late 70s , a Moddish Casual in the 80s , Acid House changed everything !
But going back to to your last sentence .. Teds carried razors , Mods and Skins were tooled up , and Casuals , well lets be honest it wasnt noddy land , Stanley knives were definately used ....
@@croydonable that may be the case i your experience but not in mine , in tha area i lived anyone carrying a knife would have and indeed was given a good hiding , i remember in the 80s and 90s stanley knives were used by scumbags , things and people had changed , the next generation of skinheads really did not have any resemblance to our time , but then neither did anything else in life
Nostalgia. Ain't what it used to be?@@winsonchurchill9879
I wonder if anyone else remembers this episode of the BBC crime series 'Softly Softly Task Force' from September 1970 - the first 4 minutes shows how skinheads dealt with illegal immigrants back in the day (the ringleader's girlfriend is the actress Vicki Michelle from '80s sitcom ''Allo 'Allo'): th-cam.com/video/xIFdHfH_uJ4/w-d-xo.html
Ahhh, the good old days. Look at the country now.
@@mongo4511- invaded without a shot fired or a boot put in.
Danny in his element.👊
hi i'd like to use some parts of this video for my next video clip,do you think it's possible ?
Thanks😉
i was a fulham skinhead in the 80s had some great times
I still wear Dr martens boots 😊
Danny Eccles Chelsea
arzeole
Danny Harkins* Eccles was just a nickname we gave him cos of his acne! His face looked like an Eccles cake! Hahahaha!
My brother was a skinhead and I was a hippie
we hated each other.
Mods forever . Ska music forever.
Were skins mods? I know little about this
@@jimmycoleman5853 Came out of the same scene 👍🏼 ✨
"Mods forever" is a contradiction in terms. Dressing like that now aint Mod or Skinhead....its throwback fancy dress.
@@benmacdui9328 Being part of a scene like that is something special its much more than just aesthetics. Whatever it is it stays with you forever.
Most skinheads had a big brother that used to be a mod a couple of years back - it weren't like the 80's when they were kicking the shit out of each other.
Style great image, saw some in skegness 2022 reunion event decent guys, girls and nice clobber also the music is really good as well.
Emulated working class blokes
What tune is that playing? Good tune, not heard it before.
Danny Harkins...Chelsea leader....legend
🔥🎶
My Dad was A Chelsea Skin! - OUFC
Stay Rude, Stay Roots and Keep Your Boots Stomping..
THE WAY OF LIFE
Obviously they have censored what they were saying by adding music.
Proper Skins
I still wear Dr martens boots 😊
Song's ?
Mano você é tudo de bom
Danny [ Eccles] Harkins well known skinhead of the late 60s Early 70s.
Great times.
I have lots of great memories of those days The clothes the music. Skinheads and Skinhead Girls.
When Skinheads were worthy of the name Skinhead.
Skinheads Life Would Never Be The Same.
What is this documentary called?
"What's the Truth About Hells Angels and Skinheads" it's an episode of "Man Alive"
They also hated Pakistanis. You can't sugar-coat the fact that even some of the original skinheads committed what we today would call hate crimes against Asians.
Bet it was pretty cool back before the national front came in and ruined the party
That's true but my uncle was a skinhead at the time and they could be a bit racist. I think it was just an ordinary working class view of other races in the 60s and early 70s .
Yeah that's a bit of revisionist history I think. You can see from the captions that the 4 being interviewed are going on about Pakistanis and the crowd shots are of Chelsea skins who've always been connected with the far right.
More like moron people (leftwingers), and their corrupt politicians working for "globalism"/The New World Order!
That’s Eccles ,
Stay rude stay sharp
The Anti Hippies.
Personally I think the 80's skineads were rough tough kid's following an ideal they really didn't understand but that's what it was like growing up in Thatcher's eighty's.....
Big boom ina room
Kind of ironic that you cant be a skinhead if you are bald
Style
Top ,boss
we're kids all spotty and gormless looking back then or just the skinheads
a lot less ways of getting rid of spots back then...
Eu vou curtir
Can some translate the text on screen please?
It's horrible to see guys with good heads of hair, shaving it off.
That’s what all bald fkrs say😂😂😂
Lol better short than long like a girl
@@arfermo853 Better to actually do something with it, so as to get girls!
@@arfermo853 My point's also, more, if they go bald and then cannot - or else find it extremely difficult to - get any girls, then they'll know all about it.
The got the face to go with it handsome indeed.
Oi!
About time it came back. Time to become someone and not be the homogenised, spoonfed, brainwashed kids of today.
Good music tainted by fred perry clones.
I'd rather hear what these guys have to say than listen to this (very poor) reggae.
Dommage que le mouvement est été salie par des extrémistes