Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution

I enjoyed it. I am about the same age of him, so the timescale of things matches myself. Although whilst he was growing up a public schoolboy, middle class in leafy Essex I was growing up in industrial Lanarkshire just as the terror of Thacherism was about to be unleashed.

Most middleclass kids rebel at sometime against what their parents brought them up to think, I saw many in my student days. Most eventually become their parents!
 
Wasn't that his point? That really he had no reason to rebel, but being a teenager he still felt the need to do so?
It was interesting to compare his youth to the ex skinhead who really would have had cause to complain back in the '80s, though would have been thoughly marginalised and ignored by the intelligenisa of the day.

I must be the same age as Alan so rather enjoyed this trip down memory lane.
 
I enjoyed it too, also being of a similar age

I thought that was the point too - that he didn't really have anything to rebel against but felt he ought to!

I didn't know his mother had died when he was so young - that was sad and must have been difficult for his father

Can't music be really evocative?
 
I enjoyed it too.
Mind you, i love anything to do with the 80's.
I 'almost' had to laugh at the two Racists he interviewed though (the Ex-Skinhead & his Dad :mad:).
The things they were saying seem utterly ridiculous now.
 
Loved it. Especially the fact that Barry Sheene was one of his heroes, as he was one of mine - DUtch TT 1975 and 1976!! And wow was his girlfriend fit.
 
p381 said:
I enjoyed it too.
Mind you, i love anything to do with the 80's.
I 'almost' had to laugh at the two Racists he interviewed though (the Ex-Skinhead & his Dad :mad:).
The things they were saying seem utterly ridiculous now.[/QUOTE]

I dont think anythng that was said would have looked out of place in the BNP's 2010 manifesto sadly.
I did think that the yonger one had some contrition (or at least a 'live and let live' attitude), sadly his dad was still running to his stereotype.
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Agreed. Alan seemed totally genuine and it made for a very interesting programme, which is a rarity for ITV1. Wish I'd recorded it now, as it's one of those progs I'd like to revisit. Looking forward to next week's.
 
It was fascinating for me as me and Alan D are more or less the same age and while he was growing up a public schoolboy in leafy Loughton in Essex, I was growing up a Grammar schoolboy in the 'working class, racist wastleland' that is and was Debden in Essex. Very odd to see his view of the estate now and compare it to my memories. The area was certainly widely racist although much of it I experienced was under the surface and expressed through 'humour' (Jim Davidson was a comedy god) rather than overt and aggressive. But I do remember the Debden Skins. That said, I'm not sure that the Sta-Prest, Tacchini and Lacoste-clad casuals that followed were any less scary - even if their hair was a bit longer. I just got out when I could.
 
Thought it was excellent and Alan came over really well imo. Didn't take himself seriously at all and all the politicised days of the 80s made me relaise how truly pathetic 'yoof' culture is these days.
 
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