If your formative years were anything like mine then how you felt growing up in the early 70s can probably be best defined by one word. Awkward; standing on the precipice of teenhood was just that - a precipice. If you've forgotten what exactly hanging around looked like in 1972 then I suggest you take three minutes out of your timetable and watch this amazing Super 8 footage of kids with the world at their feet - if they did but know it. In this reel (more like a time capsule, really) these lads & lassies can be seen displaying absolutely none of the attitude, confidence, or, for want of a better word, brazenness, their 21st century counterparts possess when the cameras are turned on them. The music, btw, is Slady - the UK's only all female Slade tribute band.
Bridgend, South Wales, c.1972/3 - Film c/o Roland Morris
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