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Written by Alan Guest
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Written by Alan Guest
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The Last Resort was the world's first skinhead shop (I'm sure there were many shops catering for skinheads but this was the first run by skinheads for skinheads and staffed by skinheads).
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Written by Alan Guest
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 So boots are just boots then? Not necessarily. Nowadays the Doctor Martens AirWair is the most common skinhead boot but this has not always been the case.
Dr. Klaus Maertens had the idea for the Airwair Sole but it was the Griggs shoemakers in Northampton that made the boot. Other alternative boots were also made during the seventies, including Hawkins boots and Sergeant Peppers (which were pretty dire). When I started living in Leeds in the mid 80s, a shop still sold Hawkins boots. The stock they had were too small a size for a man but looked very good quality with AirWair soles like a DM boot.
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Written by Alan Guest
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I met some of the Spy Kids in 1986 at a Business gig and kept in touch ever since. On my first visit to Glasgow I was introduced to Eldorado - a sort of local winos drink a bit like sherry that lived up to its name of Electric Soup (A bottle can be seen in the shot above). The Spy Kids were sharply dressed, avid reggae lovers and proud of it. The cause was helped along by a mini ska revival that came along shortly after in 1988. They received a lot of publicity as they appeared to be the figureheads of what the media found to be a new twist to their usual skinhead coverage.
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Written by Alan Guest
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 First published in a music magazine in the mid 70s (I only have cuttings so I cannot remember what it is called - Story of Pop I think).
April 1969 was dominated by two records - ' Get Back' by the Beatles and 'The Israelites' by Desmond Dekker. The juxtaposition of these two consecutive chart-toppers marked the end of the '60s Teen Dream; for while both records were bought, in the main, by young people, they were nevertheless bought by two completely different sections of the youth market. The mid-'60s Utopia, which had allegedly knocked the stuffing out of class-divided teenagers, was rudely shattered, and fragmentation' had arrived on the pop scene.
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