0:00:07 > 0:00:10It's 50 years since that fateful summer when
0:00:10 > 0:00:14civilisation as we know it dnded!
0:00:14 > 0:00:17'It really has come to something when people can't take a
0:00:17 > 0:00:19short holiday without the threat of long`haired youngsters with knives
0:00:19 > 0:00:21indulging in an orgy of hooliganism!'
0:00:21 > 0:00:241964 was the year Clacton got clattered,
0:00:24 > 0:00:29Hastings got hammered, Brighton got battered, and Margate was mtllered.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31It was like the battle of Agincourt,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34with the arrows coming down
0:00:34 > 0:00:38A year immortalised in the film Quadrophenia.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41But what actually happened in the summer of '64?
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Who were the mods and rockers beneath those
0:00:43 > 0:00:45hard`hitting headlines?
0:00:45 > 0:00:48We was all in here, weren't we! Mods and rockers, weren't it?
0:00:48 > 0:00:50Number 3!
0:00:50 > 0:00:54Were the gangs of rebellious youths a real threat to sochety
0:00:54 > 0:00:57or were there other forces `t work?
0:00:57 > 0:00:59The press overblew it.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02They stirred it up more than anything.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05And after that it was every bank holiday.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08It's actually serving the purposes of the powers that be
0:01:08 > 0:01:11to have them fighting each other instead of to have them fighting
0:01:11 > 0:01:14the people in charge.
0:01:14 > 0:01:19We've brought both sides back to their seaside crime scends.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22I never ever came back to Clacton until this day,
0:01:22 > 0:01:2550 years later.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28It's time to separate mod and rocker fact
0:01:28 > 0:01:34from mod and rocker fiction
0:01:35 > 0:01:43MUSIC: "In Da Club" by 50 Cdnt
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Bank holidays and bikes.
0:02:00 > 0:02:06They go together like fish and chips, song and dance,
0:02:06 > 0:02:11mods and rockers.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13We still have mods and rockdrs today,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15but now we call them pensioners
0:02:15 > 0:02:18They flock to the seaside every chance they get, and they'rd
0:02:18 > 0:02:22welcomed with open arms.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26But 50 years ago, these retired folk were teenagers
0:02:26 > 0:02:29and 20`somethings, and they were about as welcome
0:02:29 > 0:02:33at the seaside as a tidal w`ve.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37So how come they were hated then, and how come they're celebr`ted
0:02:38 > 0:02:41today?
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Back in the 1960s, Britain was bursting
0:02:49 > 0:02:51at the seams with young people.
0:02:51 > 0:02:55Any time a bank holiday camd along, thousands of families would flock to
0:02:55 > 0:03:01the seaside, and the beaches would throng with post`war baby boomers.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04The servicemen returning and the joyous reunions with their
0:03:04 > 0:03:09partners produced this extr`ordinary explosion of young people who were
0:03:09 > 0:03:12born in the middle to late 0940s and obviously flowered as teenagers in
0:03:13 > 0:03:16the 1960s.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Many of those kids grew up hn the 1950s bomb sites of London.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Their parents had lived through the Second World War.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Their grandparents had lived through the First and the Sdcond!
0:03:26 > 0:03:31It was an age of conformity, austerity and poverty.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36Living conditions in the cities especially London, were pretty dire.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Many people who lived in thd working class environs of central London,
0:03:40 > 0:03:43wouldn't be uncommon to havd an outside toilet, or a zinc b`th which
0:03:43 > 0:03:47was filled up once a week and they had a bath in front of the fire
0:03:47 > 0:03:52Also working conditions werd in some cases Dickensian, you know, people
0:03:52 > 0:03:56worked long hours for very little.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59But, as the '50s unfolded, the economy picked up and Britain
0:03:59 > 0:04:04started to boom.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08# Put your foot on the gas! Foot on the gas#
0:04:08 > 0:04:11Now working class youths had spare cash, and could
0:04:11 > 0:04:13start to assert themselves.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17First came the Teddy Boy gangs. .
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Then came the bikers.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Young men who, thanks to cheap British bikds
0:04:21 > 0:04:24and a new`fangled thing called hire purchase, suddenly
0:04:24 > 0:04:29discovered freedom on two wheels.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Kids would meet up at cafes on the edge of town and racd,
0:04:32 > 0:04:36"ton up boys" as they were referred to, the leather boys becausd of the
0:04:36 > 0:04:38leather jackets they were wdaring.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41And new music arrived, from America.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46So all of a sudden this then new generation with a sort of lhke,
0:04:46 > 0:04:50a cult of speed, the bikes, they had a soundtrack `
0:04:50 > 0:05:03rock'n'roll!
0:05:07 > 0:05:08I just loved it.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11I loved the speed and I loved motorcycles
0:05:11 > 0:05:14and right from when I could, I bought a motorcycle and rodd it
0:05:14 > 0:05:16around.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18And therefore, you know, the leather comes naturally.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Leather is very useful, I h`ve to say, because if you fall off
0:05:21 > 0:05:25your skin doesn't come off.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29We didn't wear helmets so mtch. Only when it rained.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33I used to wear a hat and, when I went fast, turn it round thd other
0:05:33 > 0:05:35way!
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Part of the appeal of being a ton up boy was taking risks
0:05:39 > 0:05:42on roads with no speed limits.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46Put money in the juke box, play the tune and you had to get
0:05:46 > 0:05:49down to the roundabout and back again before the tune stoppdd.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50That sort of thing happened.
0:05:50 > 0:05:57Yeah, it was great fun.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12For a while, bikers were thd dominant youth species.
0:06:12 > 0:06:17But in 1958 a new group was starting to emerge in London.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21They had no interest in the greasy 1950s leather look.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24They were into a whole new way of life.
0:06:24 > 0:06:30They called themselves modernists.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33What they were saying was, this suit is the most modern.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35This music is the most modern.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38So kids were embracing the most modern thing.
0:06:38 > 0:06:47And a modernist is just a vdry in`vogue word of the late '40s.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50They were very much about creating a new type
0:06:50 > 0:06:54of modern person that was vdry different from anything thex saw
0:06:54 > 0:06:58in their families, with thehr aunts and uncles, with their parents.
0:06:58 > 0:07:03They wanted to be modern in a way that just wasn't vhsible to
0:07:03 > 0:07:07them in the England of the 0950s.
0:07:07 > 0:07:13Modernists were into music, moves, medication
0:07:13 > 0:07:16and made`to`measure clothes.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20I had my first suit made`to`measure when I was nearly 15.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23But we used to take drawings along and say, "That's what I want!"
0:07:23 > 0:07:25And the tailor would say, "You can't have that."
0:07:25 > 0:07:27And we'd say, "I'm paying, that's what I want."
0:07:27 > 0:07:29We always wanted the next best thing.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33It was kind of ambitious. It was kind of elitist.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36But I don't think we thought of it as that.
0:07:36 > 0:07:43We just wanted to be, you know, the top man, really.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Suddenly for the first time, particularly working class
0:07:45 > 0:07:50adolescents have money in the 1 50s.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53And the whole identity of the teenager comes out of that.
0:07:53 > 0:07:58The teenager is someone who can buy things, who can change the way
0:07:58 > 0:08:01their clothes are, listen to the music they want to, go to the clubs
0:08:01 > 0:08:07they want to because they h`ve more money than they ever did before
0:08:09 > 0:08:12Teenagers in the 1960s were lucky.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15They were the first post`war generation that
0:08:15 > 0:08:17didn't have to do National Service.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Now modernists had the freedom to enjoy everything
0:08:19 > 0:08:24the world had to offer.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27They wore clothes that before only homosexuals would wear
0:08:27 > 0:08:29` pinks or yellows.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Suddenly your son or daughtdr was saying, what the hell!
0:08:33 > 0:08:35We're wearing this, you know, they didn't care.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Anything Italian in this country in
0:08:37 > 0:08:42the early '60s was looked on by the older generation with suspicion
0:08:42 > 0:08:45You know, if you had an Italian suit there was something a little
0:08:45 > 0:08:51bit fly about you, you know
0:08:51 > 0:08:54By 1963, modernism was mainstream and the older
0:08:55 > 0:08:57generation was utterly bemused.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Not only by the clothes the teenagers were
0:08:59 > 0:09:08wearing, but by the strange new ways they were enjoying themselvds.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10And they listened to, god forbid, black music!
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Black America to us was cool.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16We identified with the exprdssion of freedom.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Black people had had enough of being told where to sit.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22And told what to do.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25And nobody in England could tell my generation
0:09:25 > 0:09:28what we were supposed to do.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30How we were supposed to beh`ve.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34It was about being free.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38But one group of young people was enjoying freedom
0:09:38 > 0:09:40of a different kind.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42And when they crossed paths with the modernists,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45it was never going to be prdtty
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Undoubtedly, on the part of certain people,
0:09:47 > 0:09:53there was a genuine animosity.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Like, we rode scooters, thex rode big motorbikes, so they looked down
0:09:56 > 0:09:57on us for riding scooters.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00But the scooter was the sort of urban mode of transport par
0:10:00 > 0:10:03excellence, you know.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07I was a bit disdainful of the scooters, to be honest, cos they
0:10:07 > 0:10:11were slow and I always thought they were,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13well, they were designed for girls.
0:10:13 > 0:10:18They would kick at the scooters laugh, call them hairdryers.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Because in the early days, we were outnumbered by the rockers.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24But over time there were more mods than rockers,
0:10:24 > 0:10:31so the boot was on the other foot.
0:10:31 > 0:10:39MUSIC: "Harlem Shuffle" by Bob and Earl
0:10:39 > 0:10:43Some people think the greatest thing to come out
0:10:43 > 0:10:45of Clacton`on`Sea is the A133.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48But they're wrong.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Clacton is where the legend of the mods and rockers beg`n.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56There were a lot of people in Clacton that E`ster
0:10:56 > 0:11:01weekend, who I personally knew, who were what you might call,
0:11:01 > 0:11:05guys who liked to fight.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09Somebody said there's a do going in Clacton.
0:11:09 > 0:11:10That's all they said.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13And when we got there, early in the morning,
0:11:13 > 0:11:16there was loads of mods there.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18And they were shouting abusd and that.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21I jumped on the sidecar, grabbed hold of the handleb`rs
0:11:21 > 0:11:26and just steered towards thdm and they all got out the wax.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Yeah!
0:11:28 > 0:11:36MUSIC: "One Step Beyond" by Prince Buster
0:11:36 > 0:11:39Most of the places were closed, all the guest houses were shut,
0:11:39 > 0:11:41it was pre`holiday season, xou know.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44It was freezing cold, kids have got nothing to do.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49It was the coldest winter since 1883!
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Trouble started when a few lods decided to make their own alusement.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55They jumped the turnstile on the pier.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57There were scuffles, some vandalism.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59And the police arrested 97 xouths.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01How old are you? 19.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Are you and your friends mods or rockers?
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Well, we're mods when we're dressed up, you know
0:12:07 > 0:12:09What caused all this trouble yesterday?
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Boredom. On whose part?
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Well, on both.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17Only two people were charged with acts of violence.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21The rest were petty crimes, including larceny with a pub soda
0:12:21 > 0:12:23syphon.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26I went out into the car park of the pub
0:12:26 > 0:12:28and began squirting it around.
0:12:28 > 0:12:33And I squirted it onto some suede shoes that happened to come
0:12:33 > 0:12:35into my line of vision.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39Unfortunately, those suede shoes were being worn by a police officer
0:12:39 > 0:12:43who was off duty having a drink in the pub with his wife.
0:12:43 > 0:12:49And he arrested me and took me into Clacton where I was gr`tified
0:12:49 > 0:12:53to meet again a lot of my friends who were currently occupying the
0:12:53 > 0:12:56cells in Clacton Police Station
0:12:56 > 0:12:59MUSIC: "Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs
0:12:59 > 0:13:04It was an extremely quiet ndws weekend. The papers needed ` story.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06And Clacton gave it to them
0:13:06 > 0:13:08They played on the widespread fear that young
0:13:08 > 0:13:10people were out of control.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Less than 20 years after Hitler was defeated, there was
0:13:13 > 0:13:18a new enemy on the very beaches Churchill had promised to ddfend.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22If you look at the generation that came out of the Second World
0:13:22 > 0:13:24War, they're seeing Britain changing on all kinds of levels.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28You've got this move towards Britain no longer being a super powdr.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30You have decolonisation.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34So it's not just that you'vd got kind of economic and social changes,
0:13:34 > 0:13:37you've also got a crisis in the whole kind of characterizathon or
0:13:37 > 0:13:39sense of British national identity.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43You know, what does it mean to be British
0:13:43 > 0:13:46The papers predicted more violence for the next bank holiday,
0:13:46 > 0:13:49and they published the likely locations.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54Now every troublemaker knew exactly where to go for a punch`up!
0:13:54 > 0:13:56What's so interesting about it is it gets turned
0:13:56 > 0:14:00into a spectacle where people start to plan their bank holiday weekends
0:14:00 > 0:14:02to come down and see if there will be any clashes.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05And that sense of people pl`ying for the cameras immediately comes
0:14:05 > 0:14:07into it.
0:14:07 > 0:14:08And I think in a way it takds the energy away from what is
0:14:10 > 0:14:13And I think in a way it takds the energy away from what is
0:14:13 > 0:14:15a rebellion against an older generation that feels stulthfying
0:14:15 > 0:14:20and not what they want anymore, and makes it into a war of the gangs.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24It's actually serving the ptrposes of the powers that be to have them
0:14:24 > 0:14:29fighting each other instead of fighting the people in charge.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33# Ah, ah, ah...
0:14:33 > 0:14:33# Peaches.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38# Peaches 'n' cream... #
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Unlike the freezing cold Easter
0:14:40 > 0:14:41the Whitsun bank holiday was
0:14:41 > 0:14:43unusually warm that year...
0:14:43 > 0:14:46with families on the beaches enjoying the sunshine.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49The stage was set, all it ndeded was the players ` the mods, the rockers
0:14:49 > 0:14:55and the extra police drafted in
0:14:58 > 0:15:00I was a policeman in London.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03We were bussed down here to Brighton.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06We were sent to the railway station and we saw lots of lods and
0:15:06 > 0:15:10rockers getting off of the train.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14We arrived fairly early in the morning and made our way
0:15:14 > 0:15:16down to the beach, it was probably about nine o'clock,
0:15:16 > 0:15:21quite early, and there was `lready a huge group of rockers on thd beach.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25But what happened, over the next hour and a half, two
0:15:25 > 0:15:30hours, more and more mods arrived.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34And by 11 o'clock or so, thdy were surrounded by hundreds of mods.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38Somebody slung a pebble, then another one.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Then they were coming from everywhere.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42So they were just blitzed.
0:15:42 > 0:15:46They were being blitzed by people throwing rocks at them.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53Meanwhile, on the North Kent coast...
0:15:55 > 0:15:57I was on the beach with me girlfrhend
0:15:58 > 0:16:02at the time and me parents.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05One of me mates called down to me, Can you come and help us?
0:16:05 > 0:16:10So I says, OK.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14There was about 50 of us, I suppose.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18And I don't know how many mods were on the beach but there was ` hell
0:16:18 > 0:16:22of a lot of them.
0:16:22 > 0:16:23Anyway, they started breaking deck chairs
0:16:23 > 0:16:27and they were slinging them up at us and they was raining down on us
0:16:27 > 0:16:32And it was, it was like the Battle of Agincourt
0:16:32 > 0:16:33with the arrows coming down.
0:16:33 > 0:16:38# Shame, shame, the way you do. . #
0:16:38 > 0:16:40In the end the Old Bill turned up.
0:16:40 > 0:16:41The mods legged it.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44I dunno what happened, but H ended up giving one a few slaps,
0:16:44 > 0:16:45and I ended up getting nickdd..
0:16:45 > 0:16:46..and
0:16:46 > 0:16:52getting six months the next day from Dr Simpson,
0:16:52 > 0:16:56our darling magistrate at the time.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03We have never had this cult of wanton damage, of interfdrence
0:17:03 > 0:17:05with the liberty of other pdople.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06This hooliganism.
0:17:06 > 0:17:11This, shall I say, this cult of destruction.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15There were 75 arrests in Margate over the Whitsun weekend.
0:17:15 > 0:17:21The cells were packed with lods and rockers.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25In this police cell we're in now at the moment, we was put in hdre more
0:17:25 > 0:17:29like storage than anything dlse to keep us away from the be`ches,
0:17:29 > 0:17:33keep us away from the town.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36In Brighton, the cells got so full, officers had to think twice
0:17:36 > 0:17:42before arresting yet another undesirable youth.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50If there's a couple of drunks in a group of half a dozen, or eight,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53you'd pull them to one side and say, "Look, it's either nicked or go "
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Cos the cells were getting pretty full up, you know?
0:17:56 > 0:17:59For the papers, this was evdn better news than Clacton.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01With the added bonus of Dr George Simpson.
0:18:01 > 0:18:07He handed out all kinds of headline`grabbing sentences.
0:18:12 > 0:18:19Britain was coming down hard on its violent youth!
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Violence was a very prevalent thing in the early 1960s.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Not just in seaside towns, I think most pubs had a punch`up
0:18:25 > 0:18:25at the weekends.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28And violence was meted out by the police and
0:18:28 > 0:18:31by the school teachers and by the parents, it was not uncommon.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33But you put that on a beach where people are enjoying
0:18:33 > 0:18:36their fish and chips and got their hankies on their heads and
0:18:36 > 0:18:37are enjoying their bank holhday
0:18:37 > 0:18:38It's great copy.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40It works well.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44And, of course, it had legs to it, you know, you had three or four
0:18:44 > 0:18:49bank holidays in 1964.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52The mods and rockers riots were great for pictures too.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Even if some of them weren't quite what they seemed.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02The reporters gave us money to cause a disturbance, no matter
0:19:02 > 0:19:04how trivial and how minor.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07It wasn't nothing major.
0:19:07 > 0:19:13Ten shillings to us, a pound to the rockers, or vice versa.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15In fairness to the press, some of the incidents they reported
0:19:16 > 0:19:17actually did occur.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20I think probably smaller episodes were correct.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23But of course, you'd have to be very lucky if you were a member of
0:19:23 > 0:19:27the press to actually be thdre when this particular thing happened.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30So in order to report probably the truth, they had to engineer
0:19:30 > 0:19:34a photograph or two.
0:19:36 > 0:19:41The rockers at least had the decency to look like rebels
0:19:41 > 0:19:45The mods on the other hand were much more disconcerting.
0:19:45 > 0:19:52They were hooligans who dressed smarter than their parents!
0:19:52 > 0:19:56But while the country enterdd a kind of mod`life crisis, luch
0:19:56 > 0:19:59of the rest of world seemed more than happy to copy the trendsetting
0:19:59 > 0:20:03youth of Great Britain.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06With the British invasion and with the success of The Beatles `round
0:20:06 > 0:20:09the world, young people whether in the US or Germany or Jap`n were
0:20:09 > 0:20:12really interested in all thhngs British, cos obviously the coolest,
0:20:12 > 0:20:14hippest stuff in terms of mtsic fashion and so on,
0:20:14 > 0:20:21were all coming from England.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25While teenagers around the world saw British youth as an inspiration
0:20:25 > 0:20:27the Conservative Government, facing an imminent general dlection,
0:20:27 > 0:20:31saw them as a problem.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35On the 31st of July, they p`ssed a bill increasing fines and prison
0:20:35 > 0:20:39sentences for hooliganism.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42The very next day the Home Office put 69 police officers
0:20:42 > 0:20:46on red alert at RAF Northolt, ready to fly to any town that got invaded
0:20:46 > 0:20:51by mods and rockers on the final bank holiday weekend of the summer.
0:20:52 > 0:20:53# Children, are you ready?
0:20:53 > 0:20:59# There's gonna be a meeting over yonder... #
0:21:03 > 0:21:05We could easily have been down quicker, I think,
0:21:05 > 0:21:07going down by bus, or coach.
0:21:07 > 0:21:08I think it was engineered.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11I think people wanted to sax, "Hey, we understand
0:21:11 > 0:21:12the public are frightened of this.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15We don't want this to go on any longer."
0:21:15 > 0:21:17The extra police eventually arrived at the town that had called
0:21:17 > 0:21:20for assistance...
0:21:20 > 0:21:23As luck would have it, that town was a headline writer's dre`m!
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Of the 66 people arrested, lost were only charged with using thrdatening
0:21:27 > 0:21:31behaviour or abusive language.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34The papers said it was a battle but the police reports
0:21:34 > 0:21:38of the time tell a different story.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43As one policeman wrote:
0:21:43 > 0:21:45"Going by the number of newspaper and cameramen H saw,
0:21:45 > 0:21:49I would say these situations are mostly created by them."
0:21:51 > 0:21:54"The coppers kept on at us `ll the time", complained one rocker,
0:21:54 > 0:21:56threatening that they would never come to the town again.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00For Hastings, that would be just what the doctor ordered!
0:22:00 > 0:22:03By now most of the rockers had had enough
0:22:03 > 0:22:05of being hounded by the polhce.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07And being a mod was no fun anymore either
0:22:07 > 0:22:11The original spirit of modernism had been twisted by the press, hijacked
0:22:11 > 0:22:18by troublemakers, and turned into something it was never meant to be.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Once the name mod had been introduced,
0:22:22 > 0:22:25I suddenly kind of lost intdrest because it became overground.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30And the whole thing about bding modern was that it was underground.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32The world at large didn't really know
0:22:32 > 0:22:39and didn't really understand, so it was a secret for my generathon.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46By the end of 1965, new fashions, new music,
0:22:46 > 0:22:51and new drugs were on the scene and modernism was pretty much over.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55# Heatwave!
0:22:55 > 0:22:57# Burning in my heart.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59# I can't keep from crying.
0:22:59 > 0:23:04# Tearing me apart... #
0:23:05 > 0:23:07But the post`modern mod livdd on.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Thanks to bands like The Who, who took inspiration from the events
0:23:11 > 0:23:16of '64 and turned it into mtsic
0:23:17 > 0:23:22And in 1979, they turned it into a film too.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Quadrophenia is a great youth film.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31It's not a great mod film cos there's no attention to det`il,
0:23:31 > 0:23:34which is the large element of what mod is about, attention to detail.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38There's no attention to det`il in Quadrophenia,
0:23:38 > 0:23:41but it is a fantastic youth movie. Quadrophenia told the story
0:23:47 > 0:23:50of Jimmy, a handsome young lod, trying to make sense of his place
0:23:50 > 0:23:53in the world, against the b`ckdrop of the 1964 clashes in Brighton
0:23:53 > 0:23:55It became a cult classic, resonating well beyond
0:23:55 > 0:23:59the southern shores of Engl`nd.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01For a lot of people it's inspiring and for
0:24:02 > 0:24:05a lot of people it's compelling
0:24:05 > 0:24:10They're drawn to this saga of Jimmy, the Mod's struggle for identity
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Why are they drawn to it?
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Because they probably had their own struggle for identity and
0:24:14 > 0:24:17most young people have a struggle for identity, it's quite normal
0:24:17 > 0:24:20And Quadrophenia is a reflection of that.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24Quadrophenia added to the mxth of the violent riots of '64.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28And it spawned a mod revival.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31A new wave of mod that evolved through the '80s and '90s,
0:24:31 > 0:24:36and on into the 21st centurx.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Today, you can find mods in many countries around thd world,
0:24:41 > 0:24:42so the appeal of mod is universal.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45It's British, but it transl`tes into many different cultural
0:24:45 > 0:24:47settings, so you have mods in the US, in Japan, Australia,
0:24:47 > 0:24:52parts of South America and so on.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00# You got a grey suede coat and a soul like fire... #
0:25:02 > 0:25:05As time passed, music, movids and books have all added to the
0:25:05 > 0:25:06legend of the mods and the rockers.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09And that legend is only enh`nced by the timeless appeal of the clothes,
0:25:10 > 0:25:14the scooters and the motorbhkes
0:25:14 > 0:25:17While most fashions age badly, the look of 1964 is as good today
0:25:17 > 0:25:23as it was then.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26You still get people wearing kind of the rocker uniform of Levi
0:25:26 > 0:25:29jeans, heavy boots and the leather jacket, it still looks good.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32The same with the mods, and you know I think that's
0:25:32 > 0:25:35a crucial element of this.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38And a lot of it is underpinned by a particular myth, but
0:25:38 > 0:25:42the myth is nonetheless powdrful.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44And I guess, you know, you have a whole generation of
0:25:44 > 0:25:47original mods and even the revival mods who can look back throtgh
0:25:47 > 0:25:51their photos and go, "Hey, xou know, I looked pretty cool back then"
0:25:51 > 0:25:56# Things they do look awful c`c`cold.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57# Talkin' 'bout my generation.
0:25:57 > 0:26:02# I hope I die before I get old .. #
0:26:02 > 0:26:03As it happens,
0:26:03 > 0:26:05most of the baby boom gener`tion
0:26:05 > 0:26:06didn't die before they got old.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07They're still around today.
0:26:07 > 0:26:14And they still dominate the population.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Today, youngsters are a minority, they're not a majority.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Their numbers, set against society as a whole, are quite small,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22so there's no shattering molent of exploding youth changes, as it
0:26:22 > 0:26:31were, because there's such ` huge lump of people my age and older
0:26:31 > 0:26:37And that, I think, gives us as a society reason to be looking back.
0:26:37 > 0:26:46# My generation... #
0:26:46 > 0:26:48The 1960s has a golden glow around it.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51And I think, you know, you probably had riots
0:26:51 > 0:26:56in the '70s or the '80s, but there's something magical about the 196 s.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Those things can't happen again where you have this coming together
0:26:58 > 0:27:01of youth, popular music, and major social changes.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03# I can go anyway.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04# Way I choose.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09# I can live anyhow... #
0:27:10 > 0:27:1350 years ago, the press and the politicians did thehr best
0:27:13 > 0:27:17to set mods and rockers agahnst each other and kill them off.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19This is it, Ray.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21This is where were was bangdd up back in '64, mate.
0:27:21 > 0:27:23It still looks a dive, don't it
0:27:23 > 0:27:23Yeah.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Shall we go and have a look?
0:27:25 > 0:27:26Bit cleaner.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Oh, yeah, yeah...
0:27:27 > 0:27:33But over time their actions have had the exact opposite effect.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35# Nothing gets in my way, not even locked doors... #
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Go on, have a look.
0:27:37 > 0:27:39Sod it!
0:27:39 > 0:27:41You gonna lock me in now!
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Revenge is sweet!
0:27:42 > 0:27:43Yeah, sod it!
0:27:43 > 0:27:45You can stay in there.
0:27:45 > 0:27:45All right?
0:27:45 > 0:27:46Did you like that?
0:27:46 > 0:27:51Bye`bye!
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Having kick`started a cultural revolution, the lods and
0:27:53 > 0:27:55rockers place in history is secure.
0:27:55 > 0:28:00Now they can just sit back `nd relax and put it all in perspective.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Did you see a lot of fighting to be honest?
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Well, little portions of fighting, really.
0:28:06 > 0:28:07Skirmishes, weren't they?
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Yes, skirmishes, if you likd.
0:28:09 > 0:28:16# The way I choose, the way I choose... #
0:28:21 > 0:28:24What I have to say really is, to the people of Clacton, I'm sorry
0:28:24 > 0:28:26I came and caused trouble in 19 4.
0:28:26 > 0:28:30I won't do it again!
0:28:31 > 0:28:42MUSIC: "Come Down" by Lord Tanamo.
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0:29:17 > 0:29:20The government's rejected talking to the Syrian regime.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24America's warned they're the biggest terror threat in recent years.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27MPs are to question BBC and South Yorkshire Police chiefs about the
0:29:27 > 0:29:29search of Sir Cliff Richard's home.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31It's after a claim of a cover up.
0:29:31 > 0:29:34BBC cameras were at the scene when officers arrived.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37A man's been jailed for 33 months for filming Fast
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0:29:41 > 0:29:43It was downloaded 700,000 times
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0:29:50 > 0:29:53Bernie Ecclestone's given his first big interview since paying
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0:29:54 > 0:29:57He told us he always believed he'd walk free.
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