'Enormously enjoyable' Dominic Sandbrook Sunday TimesExcellent ... illuminates a fascinating
and still under-explored period in British youth culture and social history' Jon Savage New
StatesmanWith their draped suits suede creepers and immaculately greased hair the Teddy Boys
defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes Blitz
playgrounds and tinned dinners. From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid
fears of delinquency drunkenness and disorder the story of the Teds throws a fascinating
light on a British society that was still reeling from the Second World War. In the 1950s
working-class teenagers found a way of asserting themselves in how they dressed spoke and
socialised on the street. When people saw Teds they stepped aside. Musician and author Max
Décharné traces the rise of the Teds and the shockwave they sent through post-war Britain from
the rise of rock 'n' roll to the Notting Hill race riots. Full of fascinating insight deftly
sketching the milieu of Elvis Presley and Derek Bentley Billy Fury and Oswald Mosley Teddy
Boys is the story of Britain's first youth counterculture.
