U.K.: PUNK ROCK CULT INVOLVED IN LONDON STREET FIGHTING.

Record ID: 131947

  • Title: U.K.: PUNK ROCK CULT INVOLVED IN LONDON STREET FIGHTING.
  • Date: 5th August 1977
  • Summary: London , England (6 August 1977) ( Reuters) SV ZOOM INTO CU Kings Road theatre SV Punks being searched by police SV PAN Teds walking down road SV Punk rock posters SV Interviewer talking with punk girl (6 shots) SV interior of Punks boutique with Vivienne Westwood (Fashion designer , in red jacket) behind counter of punk clothes boutique Let It Rock (aka Sex, Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, Seditionaries) SV Punks throwing flowers down road and into bus (3 shots) SV Punks being searched by police (2 shots) SV Punks roaming streets and being questioned by police (2 shots) SV Punk being interviewed (3 shots) PUNK GIRL: "Yeah, well it's not that much fun, it's every Saturday the Teds come down here and the Punks come down here, you know the groups gather and there's clashes and things like that but I think it's a bit blown up really." REPORTER: "What about your appearance, I mean it is a little bit strange isn't it?" PUNK GIRL: "Yeah well I don't like to look like everybody else I suppose I'm an extrovert. I like to walk down the road and everybody look at me and things like that. But, I suppose I just want to be different, I don't want to be like everybody else." REPORTER: "What about the allegations of using amphetamines and things like that....drugs and that." PUNK GIRL: "Yeah, well people use them every now and then I suppose if they want to, but they don't use it that much." PUNK YOUTH: "No they just wanted to know if I had any knives on me or anything like that." REPORTER: "Did you? Did you have any knives?" PUNK YOUTH: "No they'd have nicked me wouldn't they if I had a knife on me, I ain't. Or any chains or anything like that." REPORTER: "When did they pick you up? Walking along the street, was it?" PUNK YOUTH: "Yeah, just because you're walking in the middle of the road like." REPORTER: "What do you come here for? A bit of a stir?" PUNK BOY: "No, buy some clothes." REPORTER: "And you don't come here to stir anything up?" PUNK YOUTH: "No just the Teddy boys always start on me, and I seem to steam into them." REPORTER: "What's the cause of the fight?" PUNK YOUTH: "Why, because I don't like them." REPORTER: "You don't like them, but you're both English?" PUNK YOUTH: "Yeah." REPORTER: "Bit stupid isn't it?" PUNK YOUTH: "No, it's good. No they start no me and I have to start on them, don't I?" REPORTER: "so you give it back, eh?" PUNK YOUTH: "Yeah." REPORTER: "Ill probably see you here." PUNK YOUTH: "Yeah, dead or alive. All right see you." REPORTER: "Right mate." BB/0200
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