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Same years as me , but it was more New Romantics and skinhead and a few goths .

78-83 lol 😂 😂 still love wearing me suits lol 😂 😂

Yes it was fantastic ,,,

You see kids today, wearing tracksuits. Mods had a great style, little pieces of detail that set you apart. Proper love of clothes & Music. We are the Mods❤️

I became so obsessed by it all. I had understanding older parents who'd already been through the youth thing with my brothers years before. They even bought me the Richard Barnes - Mods! book in 1980, bless 'em!

@@OldMod67 Hi bud I was the same , but to be true now I wish I never got involved in it all I have 2 vespa s and a lambretta ,, I never use them ,, just not in to it at all ,,,

I'm 53 and still living the lifestyle.

Lol, *LIES!* But good one! 👍🏻😂🤣💀

We wore Italian army fishtail parkas or German nato boxtail parkas army surplus lol Mr parka brand should zip fully up his snorkel parka and wander across traffic with his pinnocinose 6 feet Infront lol seen some whoppers then another walks right into it my dad invented and made spirit level bubbles also tartan paint but nowadays shoots wild haggis in Highlands of Scotland lmfaooo @@4th_Lensman_of_the_apocalypse

It was but we all wished we'd been around in the 60s.

.. and no social media

@@paulhanson5164 Nah never did and still don't

Shitey music

It's always an exciting time to be young. You just don't realize it at that time.

@ciao214Z I am fortunate enough to have been involved in the London scene since the time of this feature. IMHO, the first flush of revival mod in the South came with The Jam, 2-Tone and Quadrophenia. My personal route in was through a love of 2-Tone and Quadrophenia and I have no problem with admitting this. We only became aware of the established Northern scene later. However, this Southern scene had begun to peter out after Paul Weller broke up The Jam and many turned to other related subcultures like Northern Soul, psychedelia, scooterist and casual. The scene was rescued by individuals who did a little more research:, started their own clubs; introduced more Rhythm & Blues, Jazz and Ska sounds from the 50s and 60s; raised enough cash to start getting their outfits properly tailored as well as more individual touches. We stopped imitating groups like The Jam and made our own scene which became (and remains) for many, a way of life. You may be short-sighted enough to consider individuals who like to listen to certain types of music and wear smart clothes imitators, however, you are ignoring what is an enduring subculture with dedicated adherents all over the world. Unfortunately, there seems to have been a section of people who, after jumping ship in the 80s and 90s, seem to have rediscovered the 'scene and used their disposable income to become something of a parody of the '79 period and built up a distortion of the original mod ethic we choose to follow, as stated by Pete Meaden of "clean living under difficult circumstances".

I saw Squire at the moddy kid saturday lunchtime club called La beate route in Greek st in 1981.Same jackets.

I'm from merton and never heard of them. But then again I was never a mod

I'm just an American Anglophile enamored with accents, but good God, there's English, there's British English, and then there's Yorkshire English! Phrasebook anyone, please? :-)

Worked in the same office as him...felt like Jimmy coming across Sting as a bell boy in Quadrophenia!

@@mikelewis1436 You are joking, they were big in 79/80.

@@VincentRE79 yes, massive...

@@mikelewis1436 From TOTP to an office job in 18 months quite an achievement.

@@VincentRE79 no, I worked with Ian in the mid-90s when he'd been out of music for many years - badgered him to come back and like to think I sparked his long-awaited return in '99!

I thought The Who were.I `m no mod,never was,hate all that smart clothes thing and green jackets but some of the music was quite good including the Who

@@brianmorecombe2726 Daltrey was the only one of The Who even remotely into Mod.

@@brianmorecombe2726 Kinks.

@@Katy_Jones Someones understood that comment but i haven`t.Is it me that needs to go back to english classes?

Creation, The Yardbirds, Turquoise, The Pretty Things, all the Black blues artists, all the Black Soul and Motown artists.

They are still here in Preston now. A girl I know loves it and has a fishtail.

Quadrophenia was released at the end of 1979. Fantastic film, but l could never get the album.

I saw the film and had the album. Groups of revivalist Mods suddenly sprang up at my school in the autumn of 1979. There were already a few diehard Rockers. 2 Tone was getting big at that time,as well.

October ‘79

@@shack7631 Still have the original double album (pre the film).

I say the moment Punk hit in 1976 but the charts didn't get good until 1977 right up till the end of 1982 with The Jam's last year but even after that loads of good youth scenes underground like the Scooter Boys, Reggae, Jazz and Psychobilly etc before the Acid House thing.

@@chrisr5499 I was describing the youth on the streets Saturday afternoon in the town centre in the City I dwell. I would have added football fans but they were driven by the team not music. I should also have mentioned rockers, there were a lot of them.

No Skins.

@@CARLIN4737 I always thought Skins were political. Not music driven. Old school Suede heads and Skinheads were music driven. Times were changing fast in the 1970's in to the 1980's.

Peter Hook from Joy Division and New Order was one.

Secret affair lasted until the early 80's then Ian page left the music industry until returning in '99 with his own group and then reforming secret affair later on in the 2000's touring mostly and producing a new album in 2012 and touring mainly since then before the pandemic

Listen to Time for Action a classic mod anthem by them

The date of this piece was 13th September 1979. At that time Secret Affair's debut hit Time For Action was just climbing up the charts. They had a second Top 20 hit the following spring,called My World which is well worth a listen too.

The jam was the biggest band in England ,, secret Affair was a good band , but not in the same class as the jam best wishes from Durham England

Weller was cynical about the Mod revival and slagged off Secret Affair and Quadprophenia. If he was asked to take part in this, I'm guessing he refused.

I was a Crass type punk back then mate but I have to say I miss all those diverse youth cultures we had back then and we all got on great in our part of SE London.

Mod was over ten years before Quadrophenia was made

@@Barefoot_Joe Yes I know that but the impact that film made is undeniable

It’s strange that quadrophenia made a mid revival as it’s a film about how stupid and superficial youth culture and mod culture is

@@Barefoot_Joe true, pal, but the film had a lot to do with kickstarting the mass revival.

@@paulbackhard6315 stupid? Superficial? You missed the actual point of the movie. It was about an angst ridden youth who longs to escape the drudgery of being a postal worker....a nobody. He acquires an identity through becoming a mod...although what he actually is searching for is a mystery to even himself? The personal journey of a teen through the youth culture scene of 60's London is just a backdrop to the real message...he searches for friendship, love and ofcourse wishes to be like his hero the Ace Face. All of this ends in disappointment...the movie starts at the end. With Jimmy committing suicide....rather than conform. Now some people will argue that he doesn't commit suicide? And that Jimmy survives and conforms to a mundane life... But I point out that this is speculation....because there has never been a Quadrephenia 2

Yes Scooter Boys, not Mod, which was all about sophisticated high fashion & began in London. The Northern scooter boys were not true Mods. Not the originals at all. Scruffy oiks who had no idea how to dress. Scooters were for cruising around Soho looking cool, not crossing the f'ing Pennines.

Nothing ever started before London Mods who had all the italian labels well before anyone else infact every label Ben Sherman etc. To suggest anything else from up north is frankly ridiculous. Ben Sherman by the way was founded in Brighton.

Looks like Ian succeeded at that. Secret Affair are up there with the best of the 1979 revivalists.

Time has proven Weller was a fake "substitute" sums him up by the who

Squire, Purple Hearts, Secret Affair, The Lambretta's etc..were all good revival bands not just the jam.

Jam were New Wave. They looked like Mods But The music was more punk. Real Mods listened to black American soul music.

@@original.dwornboy Well the original mods listened to rhythm and blues, the mod revival scene actually came from punk as you can hear in the revival tunes. Respect 🙌✌️

There was another group around at the time called The Merton Parkas. Paul Weller later broke up The Jam, to form The Style Council with one of the Merton Parkas, Called Mick Talbot.

@@DasTubemeister I'm going to find my old cassette's out and have a mod day 🤣😂.... Zoot Suit white jacket with side vents 5 inches long..... 🙌✌️

And then portrayed as Mods for publicity.

No, they adopted the Mod style, but by that time it was all over. Mods listened to modern jazz & soul, not the Who, & certainly not the sodding Jam.

They were as mod as they come, especially Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend. The Small Faces, the Move and the Creation were also original mod bands.

You just about summed it all up for me.

Time of Your Life 1984, wasn't it? One of the guys had a broken down scoot that belonged to Bob Manton.... And a sixties mod (George) talking about the life (and the speed) Yeah you're right, someone needs to dig that out!

There was a 1983 version of time of your life too where Vidal Sassoon picked 1964 as his favourite year too . The 1984 version was Terence conran as the main guest

Good for you my friend for sure l still play my dar's old records, I love the Merton parkas and the small hours, as my dar says best days of his life. COUNTY TIPPERARY IRELAND 🇮🇪 ☘

@@aklouslibby563 Scooby doo

@@fishermansid8861 😂

@kyfaydfsoab 😂

The original mods were mid-sixties. 1979-80 was mod revival.

@kyfaydfsoab Yup. Funny but at ten tears old (1977), I got as a gift "My Aim is True" by Costello, then Blondie in '78. Until late 1980, I heard ska and The Jam etc on mainstream Canadian radio. After that, what became known as "alternative" was rarely heard anywhere except stations like CFNY. Long answer but, funny enough, I was just talking to someone about this today.

The narrator was a condescending old guard critic of (I imagine) anything that's passed him by.

Yeah Mod scene was strong in the mid 80s.

Shame on Yorkshire lads for speaking with Yorkshire accents. I was expecting a nice home counties vernacular or maybe even a thick Jamaican parlance.

Yeah I was too young for the 79-84 years but knew I lad called Stu who was in that scene and now or did works in M&S in the town.

I just commented on that. I couldn’t understand a word! And they say people from donegal are hard to understand. Could you make that out?

@@williamgeorgelopezjunior8533 haha ye I was able to understand it but it made me really focus! The Yorkshire accent is a strange one it has a lot of Scandinavian influence from my understanding, there’s a great video il link you that shows a interview with a much older man who I couldn’t understand at all and was a older version of this accent

@@williamgeorgelopezjunior8533 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icl1f8SJsqm6mac.htmlsi=vJOf1A07P2qNrA-T

The murals on that scooter are from the Quadrophenia album by The Who, not from Southend.

@@TheCardiganR very sorry but I was there and took the photo, the scooter was at Southend in 1979 not interested in where the murals are from, nice picture though.

@@markfrancis9119 sorry, I thought you meant you had photos of an upside down car in Southend...

No problem all clear now, thanks

Northern Soul too

Rhythm & Blues

That was the mod revival. Original mod music was Who, Small Faces, Move, Creation.

Chorlton and the Wheelies was made in Chorlton. One off the animators was a yoing scooterist called John Squire, who played guitar in some local combo...

They only lasted for 3 years but made 3 very good albums.

I bet the lead singer cringes at the crap he use to come out with back then.

@Paul Hall One man's treasure.. 😉

Were they meant to last forever ? I doubt it .

@@paulhall5548 Glory Boys I used to often play in the mornings before going to school and still sounds great, but even better was Business As Usual; although their last original album, I think it's their best. Like The Lambrettas first LP, it's just a really good pop record.

Guitar bands are on the way out

Ringo Starr

GTS scooter with fox tail, and those bloody scomadi's! Comedy mods..

😂

I was a punk .. but for me, it was about style... and music... but loved Mod music and style...

Enzo left the following year, but great to see this early clip! I wonder if the BBC have outtakes from the night in storage...

I'm sure French style/design played a part but, wasn't it about Italian tailoring and the US college look.

Italian style!

@kyfaydfsoab Because culture is meant to be shared. And yes they're artists, they are perfomers

That's what I was thinking. 🤣

Ha 😃 best wishes from Durham

Aye up 👍

Moustaches!!!? What a two'n'eight, I tell ya.😅