Cult clip: Teddy Boys in a London Club (1977)

Whatever happened to the Teddy Boy? Granted, there's still a thriving rock 'n' roll scene, but if someone witha  a drape jacket, crepe soled shoes and a duck's arse hairdo walked down your local high street, it would probably make the 6 o'clock news.

Not so in the mid-70s. The Teddy Boy scene was as big as punk in some areas - and battles between Teds and Punks were commonplace. Check out this superb film from '77, where Teddy Boys of the day talk candidly about their scene and about the 'upstart' Punks muscling in on their bad boy image. Marvellous stuff...

Comments

[Marcus]

That was a great clip, but what a bunch of greasy toads. I'd like to know where they got the idea that when there's no war the kids turn on eachother?

I can picture them driving their cabs around London today, having replaced their hate for punks with a hate for mosques.

[rockmother]

Teds down the Kings Road were my enemy growing up.