The Death of Britain's Most FEARED Subculture..

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As a non-british (normal) person, I appreciate Britain's ability to create endless subcultures every couple of years.

I was Skinhead growing up in London and I’m still Skinhead at heart today. Long live the spirit of 69. I’m half Scottish and half Jamaican and raised in London.

I'm an old man in New Mexico. Thank you for telling me what half the songs on my Specials and Madness albums were about.

I have a shaved head, Dr Martin boots, a Harrington jacket, and a love of 60s Jamaican music. This video is mostly right, but the non-racist Skinhead movement was and still is a bigger deal than portrayed here.

I remember in the early 80's hearing about skinheads and they would hang out at the video arcade in my city that had the best variety of games but I was too intimidated to go in because of what I heard about skinheads. Eventually, one of my non-skinhead friends decided to "take one for the team" and go down to the arcade and face them but to his surprise, they just looked him up and down and then went back to their business. Eventually we all went down to the arcade and the same thing happened. They just looked at us and went about their business. Eventually, after 2 months of going down there they became friendly with us & we ended up sharing the same taste in music (some of it being dub reggae & they introduced us to the Clash) so the media hype surrounding skinheads was just a hoax.

back in the 90s I went to see a Two-tone band called Bad Manners. I was a preteen when Bad Manners were popular so I didn't realise that Bad Manners was a skinhead band. There I was, one black man surrounded by 500 skins. They were fine. No one threatened me with a stanley knife so that was a result.

I grew up in 90s Bulgaria and I think that's when the skinhead culture was at its strongest here. They were full blown neo-nazis, and their favourite passtime was beating up gypsies, metalheads, hippies, and LGBTQ people, and adorning the cities with nazi swasticas and white power bs. I don't think music was ever as important to them as the their nazi nonsence, even though there were a few local ska-punk bands that were popular with them. A lot of this culture morphed into the football hooligans culture of today, but a lot of the more promintent skinhead neonazis grew up and started working in politics. So when I think of a skinhead, I always think of the violence and racism that surrounded them. Funnily, I've lived in the UK for some time and when I think about a British skinhead, I'm actually thinking about the skinhead part of the British LGBTQ culture. Dudes in Doc Martens, suspenders and shaved heads that you expect to be into some sort of kink but are generally super sweet and nice, and the complete oposite of the skinheads from back home.

" England looked like the back oif a co-op after ww2" .. mate it still does

There's a lot of nuance missing in this analysis. I feel the entire skinhead era would make for a fascinating historical explanation, but no one wants to go beyond the sanitized story that has been repeated a million times before.

As a skinhead from 79 to 84 ,it was a turbulent time. Im definitely not racist but loved “uniform” and the energy of Oi music and still do. My exceptionally shiny boots and cropped hair actually got me my first job and career. Though I can’t remember his name now, the area manager of Windshields Ltd , (now Autoglass) was in the shop when I turned up for a YOP placement,a work experience program. He told the manager to take me on as my appearance was immaculate. This was 1982 high unemployment, recession etc. I ended up staying for 11 years before moving to America and Safelite an international part of Autoglass. I guess what I’m saying is never judge a book by its cover.(you’re not). Great video. Thank you.

I remember when London was London and not a stab hole.

I'm from Spain, here the peak was late 80's early 90's, I was a SHARP at this time.

Now I'm 54 and balding, I have to embrace the skinhead haircut I hated as a child. 😂

Got the post war immigration completely wrong. The Citizenship act that allowed commonwealth immigration happened in 1948, when the worst of the war damage was already sorted and the rest well underway. But the government never invited people to come from the commonwealth to rebuild. This is total nonsense, never happened. Even the Empire Windrush ship carrying those first Caribbean immigrants, that happened because the ship owner wanted to make more money on his return voyage from taking cargo to the caribbean. When it arrived the government and local government scrambled trying to calm people down and work out what to do with the people who had arrived. They actually paid for a bunch of them to go straight back! As I said they weren't invited to rebuild, this is nonsense.

The national front had a point. They didn't necessarily blame immigrants they blamed the ruling party for bringing them in to take labor and jobs from the citizens. Essentially making it so that those who profited during the war could rebuild with cheap labor and the citizens would see less of it. There isn't anything wrong with not wanting the leaders of your country to replace you in the country your ancestors built.

i was a Goth/Hippy in late 80s, walking with another Goth/Hippy dude we see 4 or 5 skinheads coming down the street, about 9pm, the smallest skinhead says to the leader "what about them?" hoping to get his violence fix for the evening.... the leader said "No, leave them, they look mellow"🤣i guess they wanted a fight that lasted longer than 20 seconds...

People always think of skin heads be racists but not all skin head gangs are neo Nazis

Youve gone from little parkour videos to these in depth, long videos. They're great, amazing work mate

During those times, i remember my military father, defended my 7 year old brother from a group of skin heads who were trying to whip him with a towel in a swimming pool. My father did not care how many of them they were, like any military personnel would assess the situation and take down the ringleader. I was around 5 years old i remember that my father held the ringleader by the throat and hoist him up into the air against a wall. Explaining that he had to apologise immediately or face the consequences. Needless to say, he apologised. The weakness of the skin head was an instant memory, one military father protecting his children with 10 young skinhead men experiencing the fear of the outcome. My father had no fear of them whatsoever. indeed I learned a valuable lesson that day.