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CONCISE HISTORY  \nRay Ferris and Julian Lord  \nMilo Books Itd      \nH465955869  \nPublished in December 2012 by Milo BooksRay Ferris and Julian Lord 2012  \nThe moral right of the authors has been asserted.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced in any form or by any means without permission  in writing from the publisher,nor be otherwise circulated inany form of binding or cover other than that in which it ispublished and without a similar condition being imposed onthe subsequent purchaser.  \nISBN 978-1-908479-18-1  \nTypeset by Jayne Walsh  \nPrinted and bound byCPI Group(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY  \nMILO BOOKS LTDwww.milobooks.com  \nFor Shelagh Lord(R.I.P.),Leonard Ferris(R.I.P.)and the Teds.  \nFrom an idea by Paul 'Rambo'Ramsbottom.  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction5  \n7  \n1   Origins:1940s-1954  \n2Heyday:1955-6329  \nInterviews(1)41  \n3Slump:1964-71554Revival:1972-85595Survival:1986-Present83  \nInterviews (2)91  \nAppendix 1:Teddy Boys Worldwide119Appendix 2:A Note on the Scuttlers123Appendix 3:The Teddy Boys:Facts and Fiction125References127  \n# Introduction\n\nThis book is about a much-misunderstood,often-maligned,yet hugely significant cultural phenomenon:the BritishTeddy Boy.The 'Teds'were not Britain's first youth cult;thathonour goes to the scuttlers,vicious gangs of working-classteenagers who terrorised Manchester for thirty years from the1860s to the 1890s.However,they were Britain's first teenageyouth cult of the modern,mass-media-dominated era.As the1950s,the most important decade for the Teds,fades into thedistant twilight in the nation's memory,this book attemptsto shed new light and insight onto this most significant ofcultural developments,once described as an example of the'British genius':the new working-class aristocrats,the NewEdwardians,or Teddy Boys.  \nThe Teddy Boy style was unique and completely original.Unlike later fashion fads and crazes,it was not manufacturedand pushed by the fashion industry;it came from the youthswho embraced it,and was their own.Nor was the birth of theTeddy Boy prompted by the advent of rock and roll music,amistake often made by the media.Rock and roll did not existin popular form when Britain's first New Edwardian gangsappeared.Some may have decided to adopt the fashion lateron because of its association with this new music emergingfrom America,but a real Teddy Boy will tell you that thearrival of rock and roll was a delightful and not unimportantcoincidence,but that was all it was.Anybody can dress upand dance to rock and roll,but this does not automaticallymake you a Ted,for that is placing the cart before the horse.Being a Teddy Boy is not about music,hairstyles,clothes or  \n# Teddy Boys\n\ndancing;it is about 'being'.Such things,although not unim-portant,are merely the external facets reflecting an internalstate of mind.Many would argue the point,but such peopleare,quite simply,wrong.  \nThe Teddy Boys have now been in existence as a coher-ent subculture for sixty years.So why should they be worthyof inspection?Surely they have had enough publicity andconcerned interest in that time?This would be an incorrectconclusion.It is precisely because they have stood the testof time,resisted the changes in fashion and values withoutflinching,that they require re-examining.What is the innerquality of these men and women that gives them this strength?It is against this most fascinating socio-economic backgroundof massive change,that we should consider the history andimpact of the rise of Britain's New Edwardians.This is thestory of the Teds,with new research and interviews with someof those who were there,Teddy Boys right from the begin-ning,years before the advent of rock and roll music.  \n# 1\n\nOrigins 1940s-1954  \nThe late forties and early fifties was a time of great austerityin Britain,an austerity that only those who lived through itcan understand.London and most other major British citiesand 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