It's scary to think, I was only 13 in 1982. My time was yet to come, with the onset of house music in the late 80s. I may be 51, but I wouldn't be young in 2019 for all the money & riches in the world. As far as I'm concerned, those that grew up in the 80s & 90s had the best of it. What a crazy wonderful time we all had!
Same pal exciting times indeed ...we had Punk , Two Tone , Ska , New Romantics , Mods , Rockabilly , Jazz Funk , Northern Soul , Reggae and many others......i was a skinhead at 15 , a mod , a punk too ...my main interest was the emergence of Jazz Funk and soul and club music .....i had a mullet and a wedge haircut .....got a big LP vinyl collection spanning all those genres of music ... Music to me these days isnt very diverse like it was ....but i do like a lot of current bands and singers ....
51...same here, but still felling young. Due to new tech you can still find different people and music not being mainstream. But a lot of epic stuff was made that era. But my children don't think much of it. They have their own epic music now. Just the way it is. Thanks to youtube we can always relive the days of old(and gold)
Great film. I was in my late teens then. We had so much fun. Looking at this, it shocks me to be reminded how many people smoked! I never did and used to hate coming home from a night out with clothes reeking of other people’s cigarettes.
What a treat ! Great times. I had completely forgotten about this piece we shot IN ONE SINGLE DAY and about which I have not got a copy.Sorry to blow the trumpet. I directed, Tony Telson produced,Maggie Norden wrote the commentary,Brian Loftus photographed it.All the best to all of them!!
Carlos Pasini-Hansen I think I may have seen this documentary on MTV in 1983. Is that possible? If so, it inspired me to go to London in summer 1984, and one of the first places I went was the Kings Road.
Carlos Pasini-Hansen Hi Carlos - Long time.... if you'd like na CD of Posers drop me a line with your address & I'll post you one - or I can dropbox it for you... let me know David (Rose) R4949@R4949.com
R4949 Hi Rose how kind of you to offer a CD of posers.Perhaps you can send me an e mail to: c.pasini@uol.com.br so that we could arrange it. All the best Carlos
+Carlos Pasini-Hansen This doc has adjusted my opinion of the New Romantics. At the time I thought it was very lame, though I did dig the first Visage single. Now I see that before it went to shit, it was a valid impulse of not at all well off kids expressing themselves. Very cool indeed.
I had 3 pubs near me with subcultures frequenting them. The goth scene lasted in one pub from the early 80s until around 1998/99 and seemed to vanish overnight. Going their now you would have no clue that once these great people frequented it.
I saw Adam Ant in Las Vegas a couple years ago before all this shutdown, and he was amazing, and his band with the drummer girl and other guy too, and his guitarist did this stellar screeching guitar at the end while he spun around. I had one of his records back in the day (in the US) but didn't realize he was so significant at the time.
The great thing about it was the freedom of expression. People designed and invented the look inexpensively with imagination. Today its all about expensive Brand clothing lining the pockets of corporations.
Happy days. I was never a New Romantic. I was and am a Numan fan but most of my friends were New Romantics and it was such a cool time. I feel so sorry for young people today. Everything is dumbed down so they have NO individual identity. They all look the same. The late 70s and early 80s was so exciting. So many different groups. Punk and Post Punk, Futurist, Mod/Ska, Skinheads, New Wave, New Romantics, Heavy Metal, Electronic et al. What is there today? The Kings Road and Camden were so exciting and original to visit, but today they are so boring and touristy.
It was all about Numan then for me as well, black shirt, black jeans, playing the albums over and over and then that got me into other electronic stuff. Great time to be around
I disagree the worst era was probably the late 80's but nowadays you have loads of bands and mixing genres is the norm.I love the early 80's music as you do but there are many bands that make great music today .
Berserker Phil Phil it is our curse to have grown up in a brilliant exciting time that has now been replaced by tedious corporate brands that mean nothing. A real big shame if this is the stuff you care about. I'd go back and stay there if I could. We had everything in that era, it was amazing, and every bit as good as the sixties. Remember how out of date the sixties felt in 1979? The rush of the future was coming on it was amazing. And now we live there and it's bland boring and crap.
This was the very best time. The kings road was like nowhere else and there has been and never will be anywhere like it. The time, the fashion, style and just the way we were. I virtually lived on that street. , I skipped college and had no money. But you didn't need a penny. We were part a something existing and I will never forget the time of my life
it's quite surreal to think that most of those young people hanging around, just having good times and playing of acting here and there, enjoying those days at the streets, stores, bars, pubs and clubs are now in their 60-70ish years old. time flies..
Me and my friend were there in 81 , his sister was married to Paul Thomson of Roxy music and stayed in Redcliffe sq . We walked down Kings road one day and saw all the mad punks . When we got home to Glasgow we were telling our pals about them , and my pal Al told us about his cousin Jonnie Mellor , who had started a punk band . he became quite famous 👍
great times, pre internet, computer, individual life force and expression... creative... hungry... internet age , everyone is a spectator... everyone looks the same
I sometimes work in Chelsea and on my lunch walk up to the World's End part of the King's Rd. Sadly, I'm not old enough to have been there for its heyday, but I know its cultural history and find it incredibly depressing that now, apart from Vivienne Westwood's shop (still World's End after 38 years!), there's literally not a trace left of the youth culture that made the street so famous. All the way up to Sloane Sq, the street's as dull, ordinary and gentrified as all get-out. I doubt anyone under 40 in Chelsea even knows that it was the hippest street in the Western world for 30-odd years. Nowt lasts forever, I guess. Watching this now, it feels a bit like the Liberated Lady owner is tempting fate when he says "I think the King's Road will last forever."
I was 10/11 in 1981 & went to both Adam & the Ants concerts on consecutive years. Fun times, then there was a Mod revival, Casuals, Acid house. The 80's were great times.
Kings of the wild frontier album 👌 still listen to it , Electro street dance was i also into the football casual seen big style all over the country , from 81-88 then House in 88 👌 what a decade you are spot on mate
Have been looking for this for ages. I had recorded this on tape and then went over it. I was about 14 or 15 and you were lucky to see it because it was on some weird time like 2pm on a sunday. Thanks a lot for putting this up!!
Your so right. Since the 80s there hasn't been a real creative cult music scene that influenced popular culture..most since have been heavily brand based and commercial.
We literally do. It's just now the medium has changed to social media, but it's the same idea. Kids create looks, cause a sensation online, and fashion designers draw inspiration from the looks. Only social media has in levelled the playing field. Now kids don't have to live in cities like London to show off their looks and if a designer like Rick Owens wants to base the makeup of his models on an Instagram makeup artist like Salvia, he actually has to hire them or risk being called out and getting negative publicity. So, it still exists. You just either don't know about it or you're bitter that it's not exactly as it was 40+ years ago.
@@lavoielactee7179 Previously fashion and different youth cults were related. There were genuine reasons for them to exist. They influenced each other and were reactions to each other. For example, New Romantics and Goths were both influenced by Punks, but Goths (who dressed in black ) were a bit of reaction to the very colourful New Romantics. Another distinct movement were Heavy Rockers who didn't like the New Romantics. While the 80's saw new and different movements developing, old movements (Mods, Skinheads and Teddy Boys) had all been revived just before the start of the decade, and so all these groups were around at the same time as the more recent ones. The result was that there were 6 or 7 very distinct youth cults that could be seen in any High Street at the time. So, it was just an unrepeatably interesting and colourful era. There was still a feeling that Youth Culture was a living thing, and it led the Music Industry, and not the other way round. The point you made about the medium changing is very important. This is an area where things have become more diverse. However, because social media and all media is so vast, it is easier to miss things. When there were 3 or 4 Channels people experienced the culture collectively. Now someone can be a "star" and unknown to 90% of the population.
My first big gig was numan & tubeway army 1979 at hammersmith Odeon. Saw lots of bands after that stranglers the cure Siouxie bauhaus. Now I’m 59 & live in 🇨🇦 always went to Kensington market kings rd great times indeed
I was part of this, such a great fun time with like minded colourful people..it does kind of make me laugh when I think we were trying so hard to look so different yet all shopped at Viviennes Worlds end shop..same hair, same clothes..such fun!
As a 19 year old weirdo tourist I went there in February of 1990 and almost all of the weirdo shops were already gone by then. I think creativity was so important when it came to appearance back then.
The best times indeed! Best music, outstanding fashion, lovely ppl around... And nowadays, in 2021 we can talk about real economic depression for sure😞
Boy I remember back in those days I used to hang around in the sidewalks and parks here chasing after crossdressing sissy drags, and never fail to hook up with one or even 2 for a 1 night stand each time, those were the days and time of my life!
I was a rockabilly in 1981 attending art school in London, hanging around the Kings Road and the old Kensington Indoor market at weekends. So much diversity during those years, punks, skins, rockers, romantics, goths, mods, casuals. Then acid hit and everyone just got E’d up and slowly all the cults vanished. And it’s never been the same since.
So glad I was young in the era I was. We were so much happier and our minds had space to breathe and be creative and imaginative. The bloody smartphone era is the worst ever.
A fascinating snapshot of a long-vanished culture. I would go to the clubs of that period (Camden Palace, Studio 21, the Blitz Club) and they were great fun. The music was brilliant: Japan, early Simple Minds, Kraftwerk, Iggy, Human League, and Bowie of course. The Kings Road is now a bland expensive High Street stripped of its' glamour and originality, but forty years ago it was the place to be seen. Those were my Golden Years. (David Bowie 1947-2016 RIP)
A lot of times, books and TV about the '80s will give credit to Madonna and/or Cyndi Lauper for making the "thrift-store look" famous, but I think I understand now that it didn't necessarily start with them, they just helped bring it to the mainstream (as with many underground things, like the guy from "The Liberated Lady" explained, the commercial industry creates watered down versions of these things in response to what their target audience may be demanding -- it happened to hippie culture also).
Going on long before the 80s, loved my thrifties beginning in the early 70s (high school). Loved army surplus too, WAC and WAV uniforms were available. I wore garters and seamed hose and the little hats and the boys went crazy. I got sent home from school for wearing an Eastern Airlines stewardess uniform even though it more than satisfied the dress code. Teacher had a dirty mind. My mom got used to it and what a money saver! At first she said we have enough money to shop for new things, the thrift store was remembered as a staple of poverty to that generation. So no, Madonna and Cyndi made it mainstream and ruined it.
Of all my vine-like eyeliner applications back in the day, my BY-FAR easiest one was during the dawn arrival of our sleeper express being hurtled through the Bronx and Queens as I was thrown around by the lurching from the terrible state of train tracks during my overnight trespass of the women-only lounge, being the only train compartment that served as access to the ladies' WC just beyond .. funnily glorious times, those days were :)
Lotta Krap London is not a dump, I LOVE it there! It's a beautiful city! Los Angeles on the other hand...wait till you get a load of THAT. You would probably die of horror if you think LONDON is bad. lol
@@lisazoria2709 You think Los Angeles is bad then you should see Paris France lol but I do agree London is not even half as good as it was in the early 80s
Little by little London changed. Kings Rd became sanitised, high end boring shops. Venues closed down. Most of the things that gave it the edgy street style capital of the world disappeared. All gone.
When young people dressed up to go to a club, or simply to walk down the streets and beautified themselves. Glamour was still important. It seems like a lifetime ago.
My Godpeople were colourful & creative then!!! Iwas around in London from about 1985 as a Goth I suppose. It seems since the 80s there has never been such a colourful & creative generation & I thought the future then would continue being colourful (But I was so wrong!!) :( I wanna go back to the 80s!)
Well, not exactly. There was a sister club to the Blitz Club (London) in Los Angeles called "The Veil;" which was a New Romantic club on Monday nights. It was put on by the Henry & Joseph; owners of the record shop; Vinyl Fetish on Santa Monica Blvd and then Melrose Avenue. It started in 1981 and I used to go there, so I can vouch that it was as vibrant a scene as the one in London. It was mostly old Punks who evolved into New Romantics; many of whom evolved into early Goths/Death Rockers. Henry & Joseph also started one of the earliest Goth clubs in Hollywood; "Fetish." It wasn't the first one; that would be "Theatre des Vampires" at the Grandia Room on Melrose in 1982 or so..But Henry Peck and Joseph Brooks were friends with Steve Strange, who started The Blitz Club in London; which I think was one of or possibly the first New Romantic club. The Veil was a sister club and they had cross promotions like a party for the release of "Fade to Gray" a really excellent New Romantic song. We used to buy vintage clothes by the pound on Melrose and make our own stuff to wear by reworking and layering thrift store finds and vintage clothes from the shops on Melrose. Everyone was unique and most people did something more than just dress up. They were artists or musicians or performers of some kind. There were so many inspiring people around then. It was a terrific scene to be involved in. The Veil was also membership only, so you had to go to a little effort to be a part of the scene.
The funny thing is that he didn't even have a song out until 1982, yet this documentary was made in 1981, which means that we might even be looking at 1980 Boy George. Kind of interesting to think that he was noticed just hanging out with the fashion victims before he got noticed for his music.
That was why he was constantly saying his look didn't have anything to do with his music. He was dressing up before he established his career in singing.
Yes!!! That was the evolution!! Most people don't realize this.Nor do they know that we had a sister club to The Blitz Club in Hollywood called "The Veil."
Is that you in the video. Mr fabian quest I was with Clive when u were in primary we came to ur flat back in those days when everyone looked different to each other happy days x
The new romantic era was wonderful and quite widespread. As an 18 year old I embraced a sort of new romanticism in the mid to late 80s in Perth, Australia. When I say a 'sort of' it was a mix of Goth, Punk and New Romanticism, which was great. A sort of category for everybody. I was never going to have a green Mohawk or wear stove pipes so a sort of New Romanticism was cool.
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It's scary to think, I was only 13 in 1982. My time was yet to come, with the onset of house music in the late 80s. I may be 51, but I wouldn't be young in 2019 for all the money & riches in the world. As far as I'm concerned, those that grew up in the 80s & 90s had the best of it. What a crazy wonderful time we all had!
Well put.
Same pal exciting times indeed ...we had Punk , Two Tone , Ska , New Romantics , Mods , Rockabilly , Jazz Funk , Northern Soul , Reggae and many others......i was a skinhead at 15 , a mod , a punk too ...my main interest was the emergence of Jazz Funk and soul and club music .....i had a mullet and a wedge haircut .....got a big LP vinyl collection spanning all those genres of music ...
Music to me these days isnt very diverse like it was ....but i do like a lot of current bands and singers ....
I agree
51...same here, but still felling young. Due to new tech you can still find different people and music not being mainstream. But a lot of epic stuff was made that era. But my children don't think much of it. They have their own epic music now. Just the way it is. Thanks to youtube we can always relive the days of old(and gold)
That's bollocks. You ae just saying that with hindsite and longing to be 15 again...
Great film. I was in my late teens then. We had so much fun.
Looking at this, it shocks me to be reminded how many people smoked! I never did and used to hate coming home from a night out with clothes reeking of other people’s cigarettes.
What a treat ! Great times. I had completely forgotten about this piece we shot IN ONE SINGLE DAY and about which I have not got a copy.Sorry to blow the trumpet.
I directed, Tony Telson produced,Maggie Norden wrote the commentary,Brian Loftus photographed it.All the best to all of them!!
Carlos Pasini-Hansen I think I may have seen this documentary on MTV in 1983. Is that possible? If so, it inspired me to go to London in summer 1984, and one of the first places I went was the Kings Road.
ladyinblack1964 Thankyou for the comment. Maybe you didI really lost track of the film having fgone to work in Italy at the time.
Best
Carlos
Carlos Pasini-Hansen Hi Carlos - Long time.... if you'd like na CD of Posers drop me a line with your address & I'll post you one - or I can dropbox it for you... let me know David (Rose) R4949@R4949.com
R4949 Hi Rose how kind of you to offer a CD of posers.Perhaps you can send me an e mail to: c.pasini@uol.com.br so that we could arrange it.
All the best
Carlos
+Carlos Pasini-Hansen This doc has adjusted my opinion of the New Romantics. At the time I thought it was very lame, though I did dig the first Visage single. Now I see that before it went to shit, it was a valid impulse of not at all well off kids expressing themselves. Very cool indeed.
This is so good to see. I live next to Kings Road and the area is so drab now, amazing to think it once had this kind of creative energy.
I had 3 pubs near me with subcultures frequenting them. The goth scene lasted in one pub from the early 80s until around 1998/99 and seemed to vanish overnight. Going their now you would have no clue that once these great people frequented it.
I saw Adam Ant in Las Vegas a couple years ago before all this shutdown, and he was amazing, and his band with the drummer girl and other guy too, and his guitarist did this stellar screeching guitar at the end while he spun around. I had one of his records back in the day (in the US) but didn't realize he was so significant at the time.
The great thing about it was the freedom of expression. People designed and invented the look inexpensively with imagination. Today its all about expensive Brand clothing lining the pockets of corporations.
You are so right. Most young people now are obsessed with brands. How many people here are wearing big brands expensive trainers…
Still the same on the alt scene.
I don't think that's true at all - you need only look at the popularity of Vintage shops with the young
Never again, will pop be this fantastic.
This artistic movement influenced the entire decade, but did it start in the late 70s?
There would be none of this without Bowie
Pine Rocks Roxy music and kraftwerk had a huge influence on the scene too
@@Pinerocks Chelsea was a hub for artists long before Bowie.
I know, and how depressing that is 😕
Happy days.
I was never a New Romantic. I was and am a Numan fan but most of my friends were New Romantics and it was such a cool time.
I feel so sorry for young people today. Everything is dumbed down so they have NO individual identity. They all look the same. The late 70s and early 80s was so exciting. So many different groups. Punk and Post Punk, Futurist, Mod/Ska, Skinheads, New Wave, New Romantics, Heavy Metal, Electronic et al. What is there today?
The Kings Road and Camden were so exciting and original to visit, but today they are so boring and touristy.
It was all about Numan then for me as well, black shirt, black jeans, playing the albums over and over and then that got me into other electronic stuff. Great time to be around
I disagree the worst era was probably the late 80's but nowadays you have loads of bands and mixing genres is the norm.I love the early 80's music as you do but there are many bands that make great music today .
Nope sorry. Now is contrived, forced and unatural
***** Depends on what your life was like at the time and mine was very good. What's wrong with nostalgia. pfft
Berserker Phil Phil it is our curse to have grown up in a brilliant exciting time that has now been replaced by tedious corporate brands that mean nothing. A real big shame if this is the stuff you care about. I'd go back and stay there if I could. We had everything in that era, it was amazing, and every bit as good as the sixties. Remember how out of date the sixties felt in 1979? The rush of the future was coming on it was amazing. And now we live there and it's bland boring and crap.
This was the very best time. The kings road was like nowhere else and there has been and never will be anywhere like it. The time, the fashion, style and just the way we were. I virtually lived on that street. , I skipped college and had no money. But you didn't need a penny. We were part a something existing and I will never forget the time of my life
So happy to hear of your experience on the Kings Road. John McQuilkin - Hollywood Happens
You should have opened your eyes to Belfast you moron.
it's quite surreal to think that most of those young people hanging around, just having good times and playing of acting here and there, enjoying those days at the streets, stores, bars, pubs and clubs are now in their 60-70ish years old. time flies..
I was a New Romantic and it honestly seems like yesterday to me. In 42 years you go from 20 to 62 years old... whizz...
Me and my friend were there in 81 , his sister was married to Paul Thomson of Roxy music and stayed in Redcliffe sq . We walked down Kings road one day and saw all the mad punks . When we got home to Glasgow we were telling our pals about them , and my pal Al told us about his cousin Jonnie Mellor , who had started a punk band . he became quite famous 👍
Hmmm. Whatever became of that band and Mr Mellor. Sadly missed.
great times, pre internet, computer, individual life force and expression... creative... hungry... internet age , everyone is a spectator... everyone looks the same
Yeah, Belfast was in a great shape...
I sometimes work in Chelsea and on my lunch walk up to the World's End part of the King's Rd. Sadly, I'm not old enough to have been there for its heyday, but I know its cultural history and find it incredibly depressing that now, apart from Vivienne Westwood's shop (still World's End after 38 years!), there's literally not a trace left of the youth culture that made the street so famous. All the way up to Sloane Sq, the street's as dull, ordinary and gentrified as all get-out. I doubt anyone under 40 in Chelsea even knows that it was the hippest street in the Western world for 30-odd years. Nowt lasts forever, I guess. Watching this now, it feels a bit like the Liberated Lady owner is tempting fate when he says "I think the King's Road will last forever."
And all but one of the pubs are gone. Music and pubs relied on each other. It's well and truly over.
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I was a new romantic thanks to Steve strange he was a genius his music & fashion wish i was back there love you Steve miss you & thank you rip xxx
I love new romantics. It was beautiful
I was 10/11 in 1981 & went to both Adam & the Ants concerts on consecutive years. Fun times, then there was a Mod revival, Casuals, Acid house. The 80's were great times.
Kings of the wild frontier album 👌 still listen to it , Electro street dance was i also into the football casual seen big style all over the country , from 81-88 then House in 88 👌 what a decade you are spot on mate
in 1981 as a 16 yr old we also dressed like this to go out to clubs, Freaked so many people out... was great fun great music great people and no aggro
Yep same - we were lucky to be the right age at the right time - so much fun!
Have been looking for this for ages. I had recorded this on tape and then went over it. I was about 14 or 15 and you were lucky to see it because it was on some weird time like 2pm on a sunday. Thanks a lot for putting this up!!
If only we had such creativity in popular culture today.
Sadly it can never be again, ever since 1988 youth culture has been completly controlled by the mainstream media
Your so right. Since the 80s there hasn't been a real creative cult music scene that influenced popular culture..most since have been heavily brand based and commercial.
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We literally do. It's just now the medium has changed to social media, but it's the same idea. Kids create looks, cause a sensation online, and fashion designers draw inspiration from the looks.
Only social media has in levelled the playing field. Now kids don't have to live in cities like London to show off their looks and if a designer like Rick Owens wants to base the makeup of his models on an Instagram makeup artist like Salvia, he actually has to hire them or risk being called out and getting negative publicity.
So, it still exists. You just either don't know about it or you're bitter that it's not exactly as it was 40+ years ago.
@@lavoielactee7179 Previously fashion and different youth cults were related. There were genuine reasons for them to exist. They influenced each other and were reactions to each other. For example, New Romantics and Goths were both influenced by Punks, but Goths (who dressed in black ) were a bit of reaction to the very colourful New Romantics. Another distinct movement were Heavy Rockers who didn't like the New Romantics.
While the 80's saw new and different movements developing, old movements (Mods, Skinheads and Teddy Boys) had all been revived just before the start of the decade, and so all these groups were around at the same time as the more recent ones. The result was that there were 6 or 7 very distinct youth cults that could be seen in any High Street at the time. So, it was just an unrepeatably interesting and colourful era. There was still a feeling that Youth Culture was a living thing, and it led the Music Industry, and not the other way round.
The point you made about the medium changing is very important. This is an area where things have become more diverse. However, because social media and all media is so vast, it is easier to miss things. When there were 3 or 4 Channels people experienced the culture collectively. Now someone can be a "star" and unknown to 90% of the population.
This was everything...I wish I could have been alive during this time to experience this!...What do we have today besides technology?
Tyranny and horrible music!
+Tweezy786 Watching this video it's hard to imagine it was so recent, London and culture is so different these days
Tattoos. People get them to be individuals then look like everyone else.
A unique rarity that will never be repeated again
My first big gig was numan & tubeway army 1979 at hammersmith Odeon. Saw lots of bands after that stranglers the cure Siouxie bauhaus. Now I’m 59 & live in 🇨🇦 always went to Kensington market kings rd great times indeed
Thx 4 posting great times great people luved the late 70s & 80s just memories now but their mine and no one can take them away love on ya
I was part of this, such a great fun time with like minded colourful people..it does kind of make me laugh when I think we were trying so hard to look so different yet all shopped at Viviennes Worlds end shop..same hair, same clothes..such fun!
I still think everyone put there own spin on it and there was a lot more originality than there is now in most subcultures.
Variations within a theme.
So good to be reminded of how we had "community", not everyone with their snouts in their smart phones
As a 19 year old weirdo tourist I went there in February of 1990 and almost all of the weirdo shops were already gone by then. I think creativity was so important when it came to appearance back then.
Priceless film. See Tim Dry as Tik in The Liberated Lady? Modern life may suck compared to the past but TH-cam is incredibly good.
The best times indeed! Best music, outstanding fashion, lovely ppl around...
And nowadays, in 2021 we can talk about real economic depression for sure😞
A young George O'Dowd (Boy George) 21 minutes and 15 seconds or so into the documentary. Met him, he's lovely.
21.08 Boy George and Philip Salon.... Great days. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for the upload , i really enjoyed watching it x
Boy I remember back in those days I used to hang around in the sidewalks and parks here chasing after crossdressing sissy drags, and never fail to hook up with one or even 2 for a 1 night stand each time, those were the days and time of my life!
I gasped at the sight of boy george, he looked so beautiful, there was something very magical about him which explains his subsequent super stardom ❤
No selfies but mutual photography. No monotone prefab music on a usb stick, but inventive live synth. music.
Loved it i'm still only 18 in 1981
*the reason this was so popular in the early 80s was the fashion, the music and it was a move away from the grungey rock in the UK and Australia*
Even by the late 80s Kings Road was nothing like this... boy do things change quickly.
It slowly started to die from around 1982
Minorites
Thanks so much for posting this. Love it.
Every wardrobe should have a puffy pirate shirt.
It was an interesting time!
I was a rockabilly in 1981 attending art school in London, hanging around the Kings Road and the old Kensington Indoor market at weekends. So much diversity during those years, punks, skins, rockers, romantics, goths, mods, casuals. Then acid hit and everyone just got E’d up and slowly all the cults vanished. And it’s never been the same since.
Me too! Saw Demented Are Go, someone let off CS gas. Mental times! @@NC-dw3tk
Ahhh The New Romantics - was there ever a greater bunch of posers? Lasted about 5 minutes but still got Visage etc on my playlists 40 years later!!!
So glad I was young in the era I was. We were so much happier and our minds had space to breathe and be creative and imaginative. The bloody smartphone era is the worst ever.
A fascinating snapshot of a long-vanished culture. I would go to the clubs of that period (Camden Palace, Studio 21, the Blitz Club) and they were great fun.
The music was brilliant: Japan, early Simple Minds, Kraftwerk, Iggy, Human League, and Bowie of course.
The Kings Road is now a bland expensive High Street stripped of its' glamour and originality, but forty years ago it was the place to be seen.
Those were my Golden Years. (David Bowie 1947-2016 RIP)
There is a clothing shop called George in London - how cool and appropriate it would have been if it was next to this shop Boy ;)
George branded garms being sold in Asda these days
this is one of the best most varied in content image capturing doc about what constitutes that new then term new romantic .. exemplary audio also~
Be interesting to see what they look like now :)
many thanks for this great doc it captures the moment better than any ive ever seen
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A lot of times, books and TV about the '80s will give credit to Madonna and/or Cyndi Lauper for making the "thrift-store look" famous, but I think I understand now that it didn't necessarily start with them, they just helped bring it to the mainstream (as with many underground things, like the guy from "The Liberated Lady" explained, the commercial industry creates watered down versions of these things in response to what their target audience may be demanding -- it happened to hippie culture also).
Going on long before the 80s, loved my thrifties beginning in the early 70s (high school). Loved army surplus too, WAC and WAV uniforms were available. I wore garters and seamed hose and the little hats and the boys went crazy. I got sent home from school for wearing an Eastern Airlines stewardess uniform even though it more than satisfied the dress code. Teacher had a dirty mind. My mom got used to it and what a money saver! At first she said we have enough money to shop for new things, the thrift store was remembered as a staple of poverty to that generation. So no, Madonna and Cyndi made it mainstream and ruined it.
Back when Alan Partridge used to be a semi-serious presenter. This is his best work.
Ha excellent
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Wow, so this district was like the Harajuku of England.
Interesting to learn how the New Romantic movement came about.
Youth always enjoys itself, and it is always impressed by its’ own creations.Barring war, this is what youth has always done.
Not since the 18th century had we seen fashions this flamboyant.
Such originality. Now everyone looks the same.
There is a sense of empowerment when you don't care how you look and what others think. That was the early 80's.
Amazing documentary. Just been to Kings Road a fee days ago,.. Oh dear, it's so different now
Wise words from boy George
There was a ska scene emerging at the same time all this was going on, damn this country was such a fascinating place back then.
uh that was already around before this
I visited Great Gear Market once, winter 1985. Got a Pistols tank top.
1983 I was 13 and New Wave/ New Romantic music exploded across California. In High School it’s was the new wavers vs rockers.
QUE TIEMPOS, CUANTOS RECUERDOS...
Acá estaba galería jardín
I wanted to experience this time.
It's boring lately !
I have no friends that share the same tastes with me.... I'm so sad !!
MOCHI
Wait, you're saying you're the sad one?! And lots of tastes are at a buffet. Sample it all but cherish what reaches you the most. :)
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At 17:55, I think that's a young Mark Moore (who later formed S-Xpress) in the record shop
Of all my vine-like eyeliner applications back in the day, my BY-FAR easiest one was during the dawn arrival of our sleeper express being hurtled through the Bronx and Queens as I was thrown around by the lurching from the terrible state of train tracks during my overnight trespass of the women-only lounge, being the only train compartment that served as access to the ladies' WC just beyond .. funnily glorious times, those days were :)
21 min. Philip Sallon & Boy George talk great sense, credit to them for there direct and honest overview.
That's my aunt Vera at 10 minutes looking into the shop window :D
What has happened after the 90s? I really don't know
Gayness
I absolutely adore this stuff
Jordan looking fab!
Worked near the World's end shop in 1983! Poptastic!
When London was not the dump it is nowadays ....
Lotta Krap
London is not a dump, I LOVE it there! It's a beautiful city! Los Angeles on the other hand...wait till you get a load of THAT. You would probably die of horror if you think LONDON is bad. lol
@@lisazoria2709 You think Los Angeles is bad then you should see Paris France lol but I do agree London is not even half as good as it was in the early 80s
@@lisazoria2709 It's corporate, homogenous crapola now. There is no scene anymore, just bland, corporate consumer zombies & poverty.
@@admiralackbar9307 Ahh.... I lived in Paris in the 80's. Please don't tell me what I think i already know.... has happened.
Little by little London changed. Kings Rd became sanitised, high end boring shops. Venues closed down. Most of the things that gave it the edgy street style capital of the world disappeared. All gone.
Mark Moore from S-Express, DJ and club promoter and introduced house/ techno to UK can be seen at 17:54
In a matter of a few days 2 ppl have now uploaded this SPECTACULAR documentary. It's THE best thing on You Tube, EVVVVVVER!
fantastic music from that era
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When young people dressed up to go to a club, or simply to walk down the streets and beautified themselves. Glamour was still important. It seems like a lifetime ago.
My Godpeople were colourful & creative then!!! Iwas around in London from about 1985 as a Goth I suppose. It seems since the 80s there has never been such a colourful & creative generation & I thought the future then would continue being colourful (But I was so wrong!!) :( I wanna go back to the 80s!)
OMG I'm in love with Tim Dry. (He's seen sporadically throughout this film.)
Feeling sick with nostalgia 😕
My goodness Boy George looked freakin’ beautiful!!!
I was there!
I really loveeee this program!! 😂
Tik, Barbie, Tok and Carole from Shock seen in several places!
Here they were enjoying this in 1981 and in the US we had to wait a few years before it caught on there.
Well, not exactly. There was a sister club to the Blitz Club (London) in Los Angeles called "The Veil;" which was a New Romantic club on Monday nights. It was put on by the Henry & Joseph; owners of the record shop; Vinyl Fetish on Santa Monica Blvd and then Melrose Avenue. It started in 1981 and I used to go there, so I can vouch that it was as vibrant a scene as the one in London. It was mostly old Punks who evolved into New Romantics; many of whom evolved into early Goths/Death Rockers. Henry & Joseph also started one of the earliest Goth clubs in Hollywood; "Fetish." It wasn't the first one; that would be "Theatre des Vampires" at the Grandia Room on Melrose in 1982 or so..But Henry Peck and Joseph Brooks were friends with Steve Strange, who started The Blitz Club in London; which I think was one of or possibly the first New Romantic club. The Veil was a sister club and they had cross promotions like a party for the release of "Fade to Gray" a really excellent New Romantic song. We used to buy vintage clothes by the pound on Melrose and make our own stuff to wear by reworking and layering thrift store finds and vintage clothes from the shops on Melrose. Everyone was unique and most people did something more than just dress up. They were artists or musicians or performers of some kind. There were so many inspiring people around then. It was a terrific scene to be involved in. The Veil was also membership only, so you had to go to a little effort to be a part of the scene.
Wonder if the Chelsea Kitchen Restaurant was there then. Bella Lugosi used to dine there with team Bauhaus
Dear god, please let me go back in time......Real tribes back then. Punk, Skinheads, Glam, Teds, New Romantics, Goth and just brilliant weirdos.
Agreed - constant youth reinvention - not just the drabness of tracky bottoms & hoodies.
this is sooo good!
"Regulate the ripples than ruling the waves". Genius.
Boy George looked amazing at end of film
The funny thing is that he didn't even have a song out until 1982, yet this documentary was made in 1981, which means that we might even be looking at 1980 Boy George. Kind of interesting to think that he was noticed just hanging out with the fashion victims before he got noticed for his music.
I thought so too he looked phenomenal really
That was why he was constantly saying his look didn't have anything to do with his music. He was dressing up before he established his career in singing.
Symbols for the simple symbol minded
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I love how the on lookers realise how daggy they are.
SONG AT 13:10? some people asked before but any of the songs they said werent! im looking for the one that says dont want romanceeeee
When the Kings Road was cool - now it's just a corporate high street 😄
Great to see pre-fame Boy George 21:08
This is an early Alan Partridge's voice over for TV !
It does sound like him doesn't it! ha ha
It's "John Sachs" he commentated on Gladiators
1st generation Goth at 12:02
Yes!!! That was the evolution!! Most people don't realize this.Nor do they know that we had a sister club to The Blitz Club in Hollywood called "The Veil."
The Gothmother...
Mark Moore from S'Xpress @ 18:24
Not surprisingly New Romanticism didn't catch on in Liverpool.......
Is that you in the video. Mr fabian quest I was with Clive when u were in primary we came to ur flat back in those days when everyone looked different to each other happy days x
The new romantic era was wonderful and quite widespread. As an 18 year old I embraced a sort of new romanticism in the mid to late 80s in Perth, Australia. When I say a 'sort of' it was a mix of Goth, Punk and New Romanticism, which was great. A sort of category for everybody. I was never going to have a green Mohawk or wear stove pipes so a sort of New Romanticism was cool.
That was Mark Moore from S-Express standing next to the OMD "Organisation" record!
Also dancing at 2100
Really great times...