“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..

40 years on, the youngsters are still grappling with the same old problem: boredom. It's serious thing. I loved the roller rinks of the early part of the decade. They died out in the late '80s. I was lucky enough to learn and then get to skate. Even though my folks lived in a sleepy village, I had a gran who had a holiday home in Rhyl, North Wales, where there was a huge rink, and that's where I spent school hols. I think it closed in about '90. Sad.😎

Its refreshing to listen to how English is suppose to sound. NO VOCAL FRY

Would be great for people who were in this to find this. Would be interested where they are now.

Why don't you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?

Tickets for a concert costs 6 quid (1981). They're absolutely astronomical nowadays £££ 😂

Im feeling so bloody guilty for watching them for free on youtube while living so far out in the country.

"All the glamour is in London"

It's OK, I turned Rik's bedroom into a roller disco.

8:10 this chick currently helps to run the national all lesbian burn - your - bras - ladies feminist movement

"Everybody's just sitting back, hoping it's going to be handed to them."

We had Hard Rock music, Rainbow, Def Leppard, Kiss, Whitesnake, Rush etc Great times of youth, friday/saturday night at the rock disco☺💋🤸🌟

I was that age them. Love the figures. Tickets £3.

9:38 that girl owned him.

A 6 hour school day is knackering to be fair

She is knackered but she is a beauty.

What would those kids say if they could see teenagers in the 2010's and 20's who simply stick their faces into a smartphone 24/7 growing dumber each day.

£1.50, £2 wish they were that now. Yes aware was a lot of money back then. Update: £5.88 in todays money.

I think there has always been this issue and always will be for SOME. Anyone could watch this and take it at face value and imagine all kids and teens were the same when thats far from the truth lol. while i was born in 82, remember most things from 3 up there were youth clubs, kids and teens did things, played out together, we all had roller skates, made dens in fields, ice skating. we were never bored when i was little. we went to each others houses etc. we all who i know had commodores and Amstrads so yes we were on computers playing games, swapping games, watching tv but there was a good even balance back then.

They picked all the posh kids to be on this? Especially the one from Essex. Way too posh sounding for Essex.

Not one of them popped an E. All I can say dispute over

Shallow people in the 1980s

2:25 was he actually working for the record labels? Wasn't it well known and still is that artist make little from record sales and actually make all their money from touring? So was him claiming they didn't make money from gigs a lie?

Lol if concert tickets cost £6 today no one would be complaining

This has been an on going problem even in America.

The decade of sticky magazine pages and STDs

There are “real young people” in the audience. What other kind of young people do you get? This is hilarious, as someone actually had this idea as a tv programme.

5:07 jesus. Wonder if she became a wineo. From 14 going in pubs.

I'd love to know who that girl saw at Wembley and said they were shit

Long before the days of Candy Crush and Instagram.

Break the law just to enjoy myself? Not me your honour!!

Now the money's everywhere and people are the same..

But piggy ,I hold the conch, so I get to speak first, no RALPH I want the conch

The kids make good points but still not listened to (security/promoter)!

Haha these kids are so entitled even at this age. They don't like Pool, Table Tennis, Football, they want gigs and discos. These are all the old boomers now.

This video is so boring, I can’t watch lol 😂🤣

What a waste of footage