Nick Knight, Skinheads, 1982.

“The skinhead thing came about because i was living on the continent and came back to England. My brother was 3 years older than me and all his mates were skinheads. This was in the beginning of the 1970’s and you just admire your brother friends, I think. It was when skinheads started making a reappearance around 1977 that i decided it was what i wanted to do as well as how i wanted to look. I was working in an off-license in London at the time and there was another skinhead guy working there. We used to go and see the Specials together or whoever was playing.”

“Violence is a part of our everyday lives in any case, especially when growing up in Britain. You’re not exactly unaware of it. I guess it was a testing time for me. I was getting into my late teens and a lot of people impose some sort of cultural testing upon themselves. Although it did not seem to be at the time. Especially as for me it was just the coolest way to dress, the best music around and the sort of girls i wanted to go out with. But if you look back at it now I suppose it was some sort of social testing.”

Interview by David Wood, Body Probe 1999.

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