Yankees – Halbstarke (1965)
Lyrics: They race (biduah, biduah) / through the streets / and the alleys / they are deserted / blonde beehives / with bands in the hair / and on the black leather that they wear.
Posts Tagged: 1960s
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Joyriding in Dublin
Ballymun Towers, Dublin. One of the most renowned council estates in Ireland.
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Seventeen Art Stars
In the 1950s and 60s, Seventeen magazine was staffed by some (not yet) superstar graphic talent including Ad Reinhart, Andy Warhol, Roger Weaver, and Sol Lewitt — who drew the illustration pictured above for the magazine in 1957.
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Approximately Panther
Approximately Panther was an Australian ABC investigation into youth culture and fashion, produced in 1967.
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Everybody’s Gone Surfin’
Surfin’ Aust-ral-ia. Right? Australia is outlined in beaches.
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Chicago Gousters
Chicago’s South Side, 1960– If you were a young, fashionable African American man, you were either a Gouster or an Ivy Leaguer.
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The Cornett Kids
In the summer of 1964, photographer William Gedney travelled to Leatherwood, Kentucky to visit to the Blue Diamond Mining camp.
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Teenage Gang Debs
“Kick-happy, thrill-hungry, always reckless, and willing….”
Teenage Gang Debs is a 1966 film about a Manhattan girl who moves to the mean streets of Brooklyn and joins The Rebels, “from back room binges to back alley rumbles, anything goes as long as it’s violent.”
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Japanese Rebel Boys & Girls
In 1964, photographer Michael Rogier traveled to Tokyo to photograph Japanese teenagers.
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Teenage Tragedy Songs
httpv://youtu.be/KG_VIcoiCFA
The “Teenage Tragedy Song” is a style of ballad focusing on premature death, usually by automobile or motorcycle accident.