Hoolies: True Stories of Britain's Biggest Street Battles
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Hoolies for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
These warring youth factions inspired copycat cultures around the globe. This in-depth book cuts through the myths that Fleet Street built up around the cults; it tells the truth about the young, angry Britain of the 1970s that inspired a kaleidoscope of chaos which continues to this day with copycat scenes everywhere from Argentina to China and Japan.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Gary Bushell has written this excellent book about youth cultures from the teddy boys to Rockers v Mods, Skinheads and Punks, first hand experience from youths rioting at gigs seaside towns etc, some excellent pictures also.
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This was a really good book, full of interesting, informative facts, written by a man who was there at the time of the youth cult phenomenon.
Yep, dear old Garry Bushell, the man the middle-classes love to hate, has seen it all; bikers, mods, glory boys, skinheads, punks and, or course, those Oi! Oi! boys.
Shooting from the hip, like a man on a mission, Garry takes us on a journey, a journey via the blood spattered boots and braces of British youth culture throughout the decades. Culturally accurate, the book is littered with references to loafers, sta prest trousers, crombies and the bands of the time, as our host illuminates the dark trail of devastation and fashion left in the wake of British sub-culture.
In actual fact, the books sub-title is somewhat of a misnomer, as the tales of aggro are not the dominant theme. Nah, in my opinion it should be called Workers Revenge, or some other class orientated title, as Bushell shows how the anger of the working classes should be directed at its most obvious enemy - the ruling classes - rather than the in-fighting he goes on to describe.
The targets for Bushell's ire are wide and varied: un-hygienic anarcho punkers, such as Crass, Robert Elms, Janet Street-Porter, working-class wannabes, the list is endless. Still, rather than reading like the rantings of a grumpy old man, one finds oneself agreeing with the `Bush' as he tells it like it is.
Being a fan of Oi! I knew I would enjoy the chapters on the likes of the 4-Skins/Cockney Rejects/Menace, etc, but other chapters proved gems of delight - especially the New Romantic character assassination. Indeed, so funny was it that I laughed out loud on the train on numerous occasions, fronting down the strange looks from the suited commuters with the line "it's Garry Bushell, he's so funny".
Another thing that struck me about this book was how important Hoxton Tom was to many of the youth cults, especially Oi! and Mod.
The only complaint I have is that the book fails to go into sufficient detail of the legacy of Oi! on the German punk scene, apart from mentions of Oxymoron and the brilliant Stomper 98. I would also have listed Und Ab by 4 Promille or other bands such as Loikaemie, Die Lokalmatadore, Suspekt, Oi-Melz, The Shocks and hundreds more. One other band should also have been mentioned: Swedish superstars of Oi!: Perkele and their class CD Confront
Still, this is a minor grumble and I won't take off a star from what is a superb book, a book guaranteed to stir the old memory banks, whatever youth cult the reader may have belonged to, or, in my case, still belongs to!
I guess old punks never die, they just grow old disgracefully - and end up writing books!
Yep, dear old Garry Bushell, the man the middle-classes love to hate, has seen it all; bikers, mods, glory boys, skinheads, punks and, or course, those Oi! Oi! boys.
Shooting from the hip, like a man on a mission, Garry takes us on a journey, a journey via the blood spattered boots and braces of British youth culture throughout the decades. Culturally accurate, the book is littered with references to loafers, sta prest trousers, crombies and the bands of the time, as our host illuminates the dark trail of devastation and fashion left in the wake of British sub-culture.
In actual fact, the books sub-title is somewhat of a misnomer, as the tales of aggro are not the dominant theme. Nah, in my opinion it should be called Workers Revenge, or some other class orientated title, as Bushell shows how the anger of the working classes should be directed at its most obvious enemy - the ruling classes - rather than the in-fighting he goes on to describe.
The targets for Bushell's ire are wide and varied: un-hygienic anarcho punkers, such as Crass, Robert Elms, Janet Street-Porter, working-class wannabes, the list is endless. Still, rather than reading like the rantings of a grumpy old man, one finds oneself agreeing with the `Bush' as he tells it like it is.
Being a fan of Oi! I knew I would enjoy the chapters on the likes of the 4-Skins/Cockney Rejects/Menace, etc, but other chapters proved gems of delight - especially the New Romantic character assassination. Indeed, so funny was it that I laughed out loud on the train on numerous occasions, fronting down the strange looks from the suited commuters with the line "it's Garry Bushell, he's so funny".
Another thing that struck me about this book was how important Hoxton Tom was to many of the youth cults, especially Oi! and Mod.
The only complaint I have is that the book fails to go into sufficient detail of the legacy of Oi! on the German punk scene, apart from mentions of Oxymoron and the brilliant Stomper 98. I would also have listed Und Ab by 4 Promille or other bands such as Loikaemie, Die Lokalmatadore, Suspekt, Oi-Melz, The Shocks and hundreds more. One other band should also have been mentioned: Swedish superstars of Oi!: Perkele and their class CD Confront
Still, this is a minor grumble and I won't take off a star from what is a superb book, a book guaranteed to stir the old memory banks, whatever youth cult the reader may have belonged to, or, in my case, still belongs to!
I guess old punks never die, they just grow old disgracefully - and end up writing books!
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This isn't a bad history of youth culture,but is spoilt by bushells class obsessed rants. Apparently only working class youth can have an opinion,surely bushell must have acheived middle-class status by now. His description of the battle of Waterloo(train station) is very different to that of Dave Hann. The difference is Dave Hann was there,Bushell wasn't,Bushell gives a victory to the fascists and his numbers vary greatly from Hanns,makes you wonder where his sympathies lie. More facts, less opinions would have been better.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Brilliant
What a great read, brought back good memories.
I think Gary is the perfect person to write about this era as he has been there and done it !!
I think Gary is the perfect person to write about this era as he has been there and done it !!
Published 8 months ago by Mr. W. D. Bagnall
GREAT READ
THIS BOOK IS A GREAT READ AND VERY ENJOYABLE I WAS A SKINHEAD INTO OI AND WAS AT THE SOUTHALL ATTACK ON THE 4 SKINS SO I FOUND IT A FANTASTIC BOOK ABOUT THE DIFFERENT GANGS AND... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mpodonoghue
The Gospell according to Bushell
This is really Gary Bushell's view on how events unfolded over the past 40 years in Music.
The title Hollies is a bit misleading as it is really how Gary Bushell... Read more
The title Hollies is a bit misleading as it is really how Gary Bushell... Read more
Published 15 months ago by pbrennan
I ENJOYED THIS BOOK
I would say this was different than the usual lads/fighting book etc as it gave a good insight in the youth culture. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. A. Abraham
hoolies
a very good read, very informative,a great deal of research has went into this book, or gary has a great memory, i'd recommend it to anyone who was a bit of a lad from the 50's... Read more
Published 21 months ago by jdfc
The Best Book On Youth Culture
It has got to be said that Garry Bushell is the best writer of youth culture in the UK.
His latest work of art captures the spirit of teenage rebellion and street fashion more... Read more
His latest work of art captures the spirit of teenage rebellion and street fashion more... Read more
Published on 21 April 2010 by Arthur Daley
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Biography > True Crime
- Books > History > Britain & Ireland
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Law & Disorder > Issues > Gangs
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Social Issues > Football
- Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Football > Football Fans
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
