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00:02the great British summertime as the nation shrugs off its winter blues we
00:09spill out into the sunshine and let our passions run free but in 1976 something
00:17strange happened something more than the usual British enthusiasm for fun in the
00:21Sun it was a hot glorious heady summer it was so unpredictable that's what made it so great
00:3076 someone something magical it was the hottest summer on record and under the glaring heat
00:39tension filled the air while the country baked and sweltered shriveled and dried out the crusty
00:49British establishment suddenly found itself under attack so here were we moving around very alert
00:57very sharp of tongue the energy was undeniable the anger and the rage was undeniable in the space
01:04of a few long hot months British society suffered an upheaval which would transform a generation it
01:13just had the right ingredients it's chemistry you put those different things together you get an
01:17expansion it was the beginning it was a new beginning
01:37the summer started with a bang on May the 1st cup final day second division underdog Southampton had
01:44fought their way to the final only to face one of the country's greatest teams Manchester United
01:50Southampton had never won an English trophy while Man United had won the league six times taken three
01:56FA cups and been champions of Europe Southampton's manager knew the odds were stacked against them
02:06on the morning of the game in my hotel room my phone rang and it was McChannon he said Gaffer
02:11are you
02:12seeing what price we are seven to one I said Christ I can't believe it two horse race and we're
02:17seven to
02:18one the minister for sport Dennis Howard Britain's high and mighty took their seats among the 100,000 crowd
02:25waiting for the season's biggest spectacle to begin as you get higher up the tunnel the noise gets bigger the
02:32lake gets brighter and then wallop
02:35blinded by the light
02:38tremendous roar
02:39Laurie McMenemy on the right leads out Southampton
02:41blinded by the light
02:43Mike Shannon
02:44the roar of the crowd he just makes your hair stand up on the back of your arms and on
02:49the back of your neck
02:53tremendous atmosphere of carnival
02:54the match started at a furious pace
02:57Shannon started to run
02:59under the hot sunshine Southampton were in danger of trying too hard
03:04the first 25 minutes I've ever sort of thinking come the chest can explode you know
03:10Shannon outside couldn't breathe it was that hot you know and blood's pumping in you and you're probably doing too
03:16much
03:16the game remained goalless as Southampton held on for 83 minutes suddenly the impossible happened
03:23the goalkeeper knocked it out and Jimmy McCullough put a terrific defence splitting pass for Bobby Stokes bless him
03:30McCullough to Stokes is onside
03:331-0
03:37it was at the right time it was late on in the game
03:39you just felt that the FA Cup was going our way
03:43it was seven minutes to go and I tell you that was the longest seven minutes of my life
03:50well you can almost see him rehearsing the smile
03:53and the whistle has gone
03:58Southampton
03:59take the cup
04:00for the first time in their history
04:03one of the great Wembley upsets
04:06some lucky punters won a packet
04:08at seven to one
04:09truly remarkable story
04:10the only time in my life I've ever read a bet and won it
04:13was on Southampton to beat Man United that year
04:15and I put a fiver on it which I think went towards a mohair jumper
04:20the next day the team went home and paraded the cup through the streets of Southampton
04:26I always remember coming back to Southampton
04:28I've never seen as many people in my life
04:34fantastic scenes men were crying
04:36there was there was one fellow I remember stark naked
04:39he was stood up on the car starkers
04:42dancing
04:43and he'd lost his bet hadn't he
04:44he was probably a Portman supporter
04:48the weather went on to be so hot
04:51we were invited to so many street parties
04:53you wouldn't believe it was like the end of the war
04:57that's the great memory of God of that summer
04:59happy people happy faces
05:01giant killing Southampton had set the tone for the coming months
05:05the underdogs were on the march
05:07and Britain's old order was about to be challenged
05:10even the weather was acting strangely
05:17after the longest driest spell on record
05:20a tropical heat wave swept the country
05:22and Britain was cooking under the blazing sun
05:27people of my age still talk about the summer of 1976
05:30we had day after day after day of bright blue skies
05:35temperatures in the 80s sweltering
05:38it's like being in Spain or something
05:40only you were here
05:41give me, give me all you can
05:45cause I need you now much more than I ever had
05:49it was like a very prolonged holiday
05:52it changed social habits
05:55for the first time it produced the shorts culture
05:59in South Wales
06:01men walked round in shorts
06:05and beer was taken outside of the pub
06:10it was just so nice to get some good weather
06:13I think we all complained like mad if I remember rightly
06:15oh it's so hot isn't it
06:17you know which the Brits always do
06:20we have to don't we
06:22the beautiful sunshine brought with it a sense of freedom
06:25sex was in the air
06:28I was a 16 year old boy
06:29you've got hormones coursing through your body
06:33and suddenly girls are shedding clothes at an alarming rate
06:36shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake your booty shake your booty
06:44I mean of course it was sexy
06:46you know almost nobody had anything on
06:48and this was England for God's sake
06:51I think it did affect the British people
06:53I mean I think everybody was happier
06:54I mean I think everybody was happier
06:54and everybody was eating outside
06:55and you know people were holding barbecues
06:58and not worrying about the fact it was going to pelt down with rain
07:02if you're of black skin white you get a turn
07:05but if you're black like me you're shy
07:07but all of us what is she
07:12so what started to happen was
07:14people's inhibitions started to kind of loosen a bit
07:17people wanted to go and play in the parks
07:20and swim in the pools
07:21and kind of flirt on the streets
07:22and you could just feel the ties
07:25that had held England so tightly for so long
07:27starting to snap and fray
07:29I honestly think that heat was a really big factor
07:33in the changes that were about to occur
07:38England was certainly in need of change
07:40despite the hot weather in the summer of 76
07:43the social climate was far from sunny
07:47Now is the time to set things right
07:52Unemployment and inflation were the highest since the war
07:55the unions were repeatedly striking
07:57and the economy was facing bankruptcy
07:59We don't need revolution
08:02We just need to open our eyes
08:06It seemed as if everyone was skint
08:09The creditors arrived to learn the news
08:11that Chelsea's total debts amount to nearly three and a half million pounds
08:15From now on Chelsea will not be able to have any more credit
08:21Prime Minister Jim Callaghan had just taken over from Harold Wilson
08:24who'd recently resigned
08:26Nicknamed Sonny Jim, he was part of the old guard
08:29and had neither the stomach to take on the unions
08:32nor the bright ideas on how to get the country back on track
08:35I'm like a blind man who's lost his way
08:39The Labour Party was so incredibly insipidly
08:44Harold Wilson dead
08:46You know, just zombied
08:48I'm not going to deal with it
08:51Sonny Jim was a very dour character
08:53I don't think people held up much hope
08:55If anything, you know, people would think
08:57he's just going to roll over and die
09:01For young people especially, the prospects were bleak
09:04In June, a new army of school leavers
09:07joined the record numbers in the dole queue
09:09With levels of poverty having trebled in two years
09:12Not even the sunniest weather
09:14could mask the pervading sense of despair
09:18Piss-poor options
09:19Bugger all, zero
09:21You'll go nowhere, you will
09:24That was hummed into you from day one at schools and institutions
09:29What have you got in mind to do? Anything at all?
09:31Accountancy
09:32Accountancy?
09:33Yeah
09:33Surely you should have some qualifications for that
09:36You know
09:38As those worst off looked for scapegoats
09:41Immigrants were soon being blamed for all the country's problems
09:46Inflammatory programmes on TV
09:47fuelled an overtly racist climate
09:50Well, of course, there are far too many immigrants in this country
09:54We do not have sufficient houses, jobs and schools for our own people
09:58let alone immigrants
09:59And unless something's done about this quake
10:01that prejudice is going to be sheer bloody hatred
10:05Growing up black and British in the 70s was tough
10:10When we're walking around the streets there's graffiti everywhere
10:13KBW, keep Britain white
10:15Niggers go home
10:16National Front stuff all over the place
10:18So you definitely felt alienated
10:25The majority of Britain's black population
10:28were living in the poorest areas of the country
10:30Often segregated from the rest of society
10:34When we were kids
10:35We know we were being socialised in a lot of ways
10:39And we knew there was a lot wrong in the way we were treated
10:49As well as the things that affected my white mates
10:51like unemployment, etc, etc
10:53We had the double grief of the cops on our backs
10:55with the whole SUS laws and things like that
10:57The power to stop and search suspects
11:00originally came from an old anti-vagrancy law
11:03but was now being used overzealously by police
11:06to take young black men off the streets
11:09I can't count the number of times
11:11we'd be turfed down to the van
11:13and I'm talking about turfed
11:14I was told to go and sit in a police car
11:16at the back
11:17and this can be pretty scary
11:18because it's late at night
11:19there's nobody round
11:21no witnesses
11:21right
11:22and you're thinking
11:23what the hell is going on?
11:27the police were virtually at war with young black kids
11:31you know, the chief of the Metropolitan Police said
11:33any encounter between black kids and the police
11:37was a potential riot
11:39that view was still prevalent in 76
11:42that there was going to be civil war
11:44that black and white couldn't live together
11:49One area in West London
11:51where black and white were trying to get along
11:53was Notting Hill
11:54There, the West England community
11:56had held an annual carnival since 1964
12:01Originally a small local event
12:03it had rapidly grown in recent years
12:05and by 1975 attracted 150,000 revellers
12:11to all intents and purposes
12:12it was a pretty harmonious place
12:15people learned to get along
12:16I mean, we all had to live next door to each other
12:18we all had to work with each other
12:19black and working class
12:21and white working class people
12:23it was a fantastic atmosphere
12:25Although the 1975 carnival passed off fairly peacefully
12:28this summer the atmosphere was different
12:30with racial tension in the air
12:33some local residents were nervous
12:35about the West Indian community
12:36being allowed to take over the streets
12:40Carnival brings more enjoyment
12:43and social...
12:44I'm sure this is true
12:45and social values
12:46If we were to do this
12:47you could in a sense
12:48say that we ought to donate some money
12:50to a conservative faith
12:50or a church outing or something
12:53and we don't do that
12:54they are all...
12:54It was clear
12:55that they wanted the carnival off the streets
12:58the police
12:59the home office
13:01the newspapers
13:02There is a reservoir of racist feeling
13:05in the British population
13:06there is not one single one
13:08who does not know that
13:09I used to sleep eat and drink this stuff
13:11pen to paper
13:12and I was known
13:13as a public figure by then
13:15and people stopped me in the street
13:17are we having the carnival?
13:23Attempts to stop the carnival added to the sense of persecution felt by London's Caribbean community
13:28among the younger generation
13:30anger about their situation
13:32was fueling a more militant stance
13:38We were bubbling and backfiring
13:40and rising and raging
13:42there were songs of freedom
13:44Marley's hymns of freedom
13:47were all over the place
13:49we were saying
13:50we're not putting up with it anymore
13:54There was clearly a change in consciousness
13:57occurring among young black British kids
14:00because I think they were the first lot
14:02that knew they were black and British
14:04they hadn't been born
14:05on an island somewhere in the Caribbean
14:06or whatever
14:07they'd been born in Notting Hill
14:09or Brixton
14:09or Toxteth
14:10or wherever it was
14:12and
14:13whereas their parents
14:14had put up with all the crap
14:16they weren't going to
14:18Good morning ladies and gentlemen
14:19sit down please will you
14:20The authorities eventually decided
14:22to let the carnival go ahead
14:23but they were determined
14:24to exercise control
14:26You will see from here
14:28The local police chief decided
14:29to employ a force
14:3020 times greater than the previous year
14:33and was preparing for the event
14:35with military precision
14:38They wanted to move it to a park
14:39then you can police them
14:41by surrounding the park
14:42and we said no we're not going in a park
14:44this is not a game
14:49The heat wave showed no sign of subsiding
14:52On June the 26th the temperature in London
14:55hit an all-time record of 35 degrees
15:02But even in the heat
15:03young people still dressed to impress
15:06As ever fashion was the clearest way
15:08to make a statement about who you were
15:10and how you felt
15:12Most of the summer of 76
15:14I was probably lying at Finchley Lido
15:16in a pair of Speedos
15:17In fact I remember lying at Finchley Lido
15:19in a pair of Speedos and white socks
15:21so that people knew I was a soul boy
15:23I mean soul boys were carpenters jeans
15:25cap sleeve t-shirts
15:27Also very cut, very stylish
15:29Great for sort of posing on the dance floor
15:31My afro was that big
15:34My collars were this big
15:36Don't let me hear you say
15:38Lights taking you nowhere
15:40By 76
15:42young people were keen
15:43to escape the shadow of the hippies
15:45with their flares and long hair
15:47and create a style of their own
15:48What emerged was a vibrant
15:51and diverse youth culture
15:57Certainly if you were a teenager
15:58you had to have the look
16:00and the look was everything
16:02because everybody was in a tribe
16:03Everybody was in some kind of youth group
16:08By the summer of 76
16:10I was wearing exclusively black
16:12One week my hair would be blue
16:14The next week my hair would be yellow
16:16The next week it would be green
16:17I was constantly changing
16:23It's the first time I saw someone
16:25with their nose pierced
16:26The first time I saw someone
16:27with their hair dyed bright blue
16:28Just tribes of Mohican kids
16:31So it was kind of like
16:32there'd be kind of shock and awe
16:33as we walked down the street
16:35and all of these different tribes
16:37would stroll
16:38kind of up and down
16:39the King's Road
16:40on a Saturday afternoon
16:41sweating
16:42beneath all of this paraphernalia
16:44and looking at each other
16:45and flirting
16:46It was an amazing time
16:48I see a little silhouette
16:50of a man
16:51King's Road
16:52was home to some of
16:53London's most fashionable shops
16:55and became a focal point
16:56for the more alternative kids
17:00Galileo
17:01Galileo
17:04Galileo
17:05the shop
17:05Sex
17:06Run by Malcolm McLaren
17:08and Vivian Westwood
17:09it paraded
17:09a weird assortment
17:11of unique designs
17:14Sex was
17:15definitely
17:16a vanguard
17:18in style
17:20I was buying
17:21rubber
17:22stockings
17:23black stiletto heels
17:24sort of changing my look
17:30Some of the gear
17:32at Malcolm and Vivian
17:33shop was
17:34seriously
17:35dangerous stuff
17:36breaking rules
17:37mixing
17:38absolute
17:39perversion
17:40with great
17:41teddy boy shoes
17:42Rudolph
17:43bought some very nice things
17:44once
17:44he bought one of these
17:45anarchy shirts
17:46I just thought it was avant-garde clothing
17:49completely distressed clothing
17:50things you'd never think to do
17:52they'd get a
17:53cap sleeve shirt
17:53and they'd just
17:55distress it
17:55just rip it
17:56Who was doing that then?
17:58That was absolutely revolutionary
18:01The shop's devotees
18:03and their contemporaries
18:04on the King's Road
18:05were evolving
18:06into yet another
18:07new tribe
18:07and soon
18:08became known
18:09as punks
18:10I used the shop
18:12as a focal point
18:13you know
18:14a bloke who had
18:15something to say
18:16never had a chance
18:17to say it
18:17up until that point
18:18I tell people
18:19punk was a trouser revolution
18:21the music came second
18:22people wearing the clothes
18:24before they had the music
18:25with their bondage trousers
18:28and ripped t-shirts
18:29the punk's clothes
18:30set them apart
18:31like all young rebels
18:33they needed a voice
18:34but in 76
18:35the pop scene
18:36had nothing to offer them
18:37at the time
18:39the mainstream music scene
18:40in the UK
18:40made me want to go
18:41though it hurts
18:43to go away
18:44it's impossible
18:46to stay
18:47to me that was just
18:48mathness personified
18:49before I go
18:51it was nonsense
18:52that was music for
18:53I don't know
18:54people under 10
18:55or over 40
18:56that was not
18:57what mattered
18:57I'll be thinking
18:58of you
19:00right load of rancid
19:01old dross
19:02to be quite honest
19:02kisses for me
19:04save all your kisses
19:06for me
19:07and records like that
19:08would be at number one
19:09for what seemed like
19:10weeks
19:11and it was torture
19:12to someone like me
19:13who was kind of 14
19:14at that time
19:14who did want something
19:15more out of life
19:17I'm gonna change
19:19Madonna
19:20I'm gonna change
19:22on the cooler side
19:23of pop
19:24the camp glam rockers
19:25were fading fast
19:26and anyway
19:27they could never claim
19:29to have been a radical
19:30force
19:31there was moments
19:32in glam rock
19:33but it didn't seem
19:34to have much substance
19:35it was like you know
19:36you know
19:37a jelly and ice cream party
19:38really I thought
19:39they were kind of like
19:40just not quite good enough
19:42do you know what I mean
19:43it was just
19:45gay to flog a record
19:47Bowie was in America
19:49Roxy music had split up
19:50Bowlin was burnt out
19:52and they just left us
19:53with EOP
19:54and you know
19:56all that sort of
19:57flatulent nonsense
19:59at the other end
20:00of the musical spectrum
20:01were the prog rock
20:02super bands
20:03of the early 70s
20:04but they'd become remote
20:06and lost touch
20:07with ordinary kids
20:08the prog rock dinosaurs
20:10there they were
20:11like sort of playing
20:12this turgid
20:12kind of drossy music
20:14with like half an hour
20:15long songs
20:16and all this stuff
20:17meandering
20:17beautifully played
20:18and everything
20:19and they were all
20:20spliffed out of their brains
20:22Inside out
20:25Outside out
20:27Quadruple albums
20:28about topographic oceans
20:29means absolutely nothing
20:30to me
20:31and it didn't mean anything
20:32to any of my friends
20:33I was looking for
20:34something a bit deeper
20:35something to
20:36vent our spleen
20:37against society
20:38in a way
20:41Some of the punks
20:42who'd been hanging
20:42around the shop
20:43sex
20:44had given up waiting
20:45and formed their own band
20:46managed by McLaren
20:48and decked out
20:49in Westwood's clothes
20:50they were performing
20:51their unique style
20:52of music
20:53in small venues
20:54across London
20:55they were called
20:56the Sex Pistols
21:03It was just such an onslaught
21:07of noise
21:10I can remember standing there
21:11thinking
21:11what the hell is this?
21:17They just came out
21:18and spat all this stuff out
21:22You know it was a full frontal assault
21:24on all your senses
21:25the attitude just blew you away
21:29You couldn't understand a word
21:31it was literally like
21:34it was just syllables
21:39I didn't think they could play that well
21:40you know
21:41and of course they couldn't
21:42you know
21:42but that wasn't the point really
21:47what they were doing
21:48was very very powerful
21:50and the audience was
21:51confused
21:52angry
21:54booing
21:55but there was a section
21:57that was thrilled
22:02Often playing in clubs
22:03where there were several other bands
22:05on the bill
22:05the Sex Pistols
22:07were not always welcomed
22:08with open arms
22:12The early Sex Pistols gigs
22:14were ferociously like
22:16nasty affairs
22:17mostly up north
22:19see
22:20where like
22:20oh we hate you cockney bastards anyway
22:24you add like
22:25a rubber t-shirt
22:26to all this
22:27and you're
22:28spouting anarchy
22:29that's a red flag
22:30to a bull
22:31and it went off
22:32all the time
22:34but it was better
22:35than sitting in a pub
22:36trying to scrounge a drink
22:37in London
22:37weren't it?
22:41I think the Sex Pistols
22:43for me
22:44were all about Johnny Rotten
22:45he was like
22:46Dickens
22:47a Dickens character
22:48on Amphetamine
22:49and he wanted to know more
22:51I mean who do you think
22:52is a good singer?
22:54I don't
22:56I don't have any heroes
22:58they're all useless
23:00don't accept the old order
23:02get rid of it
23:04In his quieter moments
23:05Johnny Rotten
23:06lucidly expressed
23:07the ethos of the band
23:08the Sex Pistols
23:10wanted to blow away
23:11the cobwebs
23:11of a stale
23:12irrelevant music scene
23:14what do you think about
23:15bands like the stones?
23:16I don't
23:17I don't even consider them a band
23:21they're more like a business
23:24On stage
23:25Rotten shunned the traditional role
23:27of the rock star
23:28alternating between anger and boredom
23:31he incited the audience's wrath
23:33and seemed to relish it
23:34his whole demeanour on stage
23:37was the opposite of
23:39you know
23:39I'm a star
23:40you know
23:41adore me
23:43it's a creature of instinct on stage
23:46if a crowd's bland
23:48I'm bland
23:49and I'll out bland
23:50they're bland
23:51and vice versa
23:53aggression will get aggression
23:57But Leiden
23:58now reveals
23:59a further reason
23:59behind his stage persona
24:01it wasn't just
24:02anger about society
24:04I had the piles
24:06like you wouldn't believe
24:07so I was in
24:09screaming
24:10agony
24:10and I mean
24:12you know
24:12the rotten stance
24:13I am an anti-Christ
24:16yeah
24:16Christ
24:17you can't
24:19perform
24:20that kind of stuff
24:21that was a real life
24:22experience
24:22and it impressed the whole nation
24:24and I changed the country
24:26Don't go breaking my heart
24:28Most of the nation
24:29were still blissfully unaware
24:31of Rotten's woes
24:32and instead were enchanted
24:33by Elton John
24:34and Kiki Dee's
24:35brand new number one
24:37Baby you're not that kind
24:39I think I had the dungarees
24:41like that didn't I
24:41Don't go breaking my heart
24:43Don't go breaking my heart
24:44Oh my god
24:45In the summer of 76
24:47Elton wasn't yet out of the closet
24:49but the video didn't fall everywhere
24:52In that song
24:54the
24:55didn't sound sexual did it
24:57it didn't sound like
24:58you know
24:58they'd had a jolly good
24:59rogering
25:02Ooooo
25:03Ooooo
25:06Ooooo
25:06Ooooo
25:07When I was down
25:08I was your crown
25:10There was one reviewer
25:12who said
25:13I looked like I was gurning
25:14on the video
25:18Thank you
25:20The perfect weather
25:21suited the quintessential
25:22English sport
25:23of cricket
25:24but this summer
25:25the game would experience
25:26a different kind of heat
25:30The West Indies team
25:31were visiting England
25:32for the season
25:35The two sides would battle it out
25:37over five test matches
25:38each lasting up to five days
25:41With a proud
25:42but alienated
25:43Caribbean community
25:44living in England
25:45the rivalry was always
25:47going to be intense
25:48But even before the series
25:50began
25:50England's South African born
25:52captain Tony Gregg
25:53added fuel to the fire
25:56I like to think that
25:57people are building
25:58these West Indians up
25:59because I'm not really
26:00quite sure
26:00that they're as good as
26:01everyone thinks they are
26:02I tell you what
26:03that's grovel Greg grovel
26:05isn't it?
26:06and I intend
26:07with the help of Klossi
26:08and a few others
26:08to make them grovel
26:09Grovel Greg grovel
26:12Greg's comments
26:13antagonised the local
26:14West Indian supporters
26:15who were in no mood
26:16for insults
26:17Grovel Greg grovel
26:19The general population
26:20here
26:21in this country
26:22of racism
26:23wanted us to grovel
26:26So we felt at one
26:28with the West Indian
26:30team that was rising
26:31Get up, stand up
26:34Stand up
26:35for your right
26:36I think it was
26:37provocative
26:38it was newsworthy
26:39and it's put an edge
26:41to the series
26:43There was a feeling
26:45of menace in the air
26:47that we wanted to take
26:48on somebody
26:49to prove
26:50that we weren't
26:51blacks that you could
26:52push around
26:55Nevertheless
26:55the English team
26:56were confident
26:57Greg had chosen
26:58some older
26:59more experienced players
27:00to face the young
27:01West Indian team
27:02Stand up
27:03for your right
27:04of the season
27:05yes we were
27:06relatively optimistic
27:07Derrick Underwood
27:09There's another four
27:10and it's a great shot
27:11The optimism
27:12quickly faded
27:13as the West Indies
27:14soon showed
27:15they were no pushover
27:17We've moved on now
27:18to 224
27:20If the West Indies team
27:21were daunting on the pitch
27:23their supporters antics
27:24also made life difficult
27:26for the English players
27:27they were this wonderful
27:28exuberant site
27:30who had these fans
27:31at that point
27:32made the
27:33you know
27:33the bacon and egg
27:35kind of Tory stalwarts
27:36of Lords
27:36go bonkers
27:37by rattling cans
27:39together
27:39and blowing horns
27:40and dancing
27:41England had never seen
27:43the like
27:45Great shot
27:47And the game of cricket
27:48which is supposed
27:49to be so sober
27:52totally good boy
27:53uh uh
27:54drums
27:56The noise
27:57the noise
27:58gets to you
27:59all day
28:00all day
28:01hour after hour
28:03Although the first two test matches
28:05were drawn
28:05the West Indies
28:06had given England a scare
28:08on the 8th of July
28:09in the third test
28:10at Old Trafford
28:11England began to struggle
28:13How are you doing now?
28:17Follow him
28:19and that's out
28:20First ball
28:21The West Indies
28:22had a fantastic barrage
28:24of fast bowlers
28:25and uh
28:26they kept coming at us
28:28On this bowling
28:29Underwood goes
28:31for naught
28:31Holden takes
28:32another wicket
28:33Decimal Maker
28:34Holden
28:35earned a sovereign key
28:37Whispering Death
28:38It hit me
28:39Somebody
28:40Oh
28:40And there's gone
28:44And another failure
28:46for the England captain
28:47We were always
28:49it seemed
28:49fighting with our backs
28:51to the wall
28:51So devastating
28:53was the impact
28:54of the West Indies
28:54bowling attack
28:55that the press complained
28:57it was somehow
28:57uncivilised
28:58I remember
29:03that was one of the
29:05major criticisms
29:07that the cricket
29:08inside was
29:09brutish
29:10When England batted
29:11they faced
29:12a torrid attack
29:13They looked at it
29:14as violence
29:15that you had
29:16these four fast
29:17blutes
29:18Dangerous bouncers
29:19by holding
29:20and from umpire
29:20Bill Alley are warning
29:21to cut it out
29:22This was pre-helmets
29:24remember
29:24you know there really
29:25was a feeling going
29:27around the first
29:27fast game that people
29:28are going to get hurt
29:34The West Indies
29:36easily won the third test
29:37and with two matches
29:38left
29:39were looking stronger
29:40than ever
29:43It was the English
29:44who now had an uphill struggle
29:50There were some very long sweaty days
29:53I can assure you
29:57The wonderful heat wave
29:58soon caused problems
30:00as drought set in
30:01For the first time in British history
30:04water had to be rationed
30:07Water has been turned off tonight
30:09to tens of thousands of homes
30:11and supplies will not be turned on again
30:13until eight o'clock tomorrow morning
30:15Some planned to survive the night
30:17by filling up buckets
30:18And now you never miss your water
30:21till you're well and dry
30:22Come on up baby
30:25Give our love a try
30:26and stick together
30:28The whole country rallied round
30:29in the effort to save water
30:31with plenty of handy tips
30:32handed out by government
30:33and the media
30:34We can't actually get more water
30:37so we must conserve what we have
30:39Children often bath together
30:42So could parents
30:43Yeah I do remember that
30:45It said you know
30:45save water
30:46and have a bath with your
30:47best friend
30:48or your girlfriend
30:49and you don't have a bath on your own
30:54As ever
30:55Blue Peter's audience
30:56played their part
30:57Maxine Barden here
30:59from Rainham in Essex
31:00She says
31:00why not cook potatoes
31:01in their jackets
31:02instead of boiling them
31:03We've got a good one
31:04from Guy Nobbs here
31:05He's got two lovely slogans
31:06Think before you drink
31:08and don't rush to flush
31:13By driving round the town
31:14in a somewhat ostentatious van
31:16the patrolman hoped to discourage
31:18the use of sprinklers
31:19and hose pipes
31:20without having to bring a prosecution
31:22I remember the water shortage
31:24because a neighbour of mine
31:25I spotted him
31:26doing a leopard crawl
31:27down his garden
31:28I was in an upstairs window
31:29and of course
31:30he was dragging his horse pipe
31:31behind him
31:32which was illegal
31:33and I let him do this
31:34for ages and ages
31:35and I opened the window
31:36and I shouted
31:37how are you doing?
31:38and he jumped out of his skin
31:40The situation at the moment
31:41is only critical
31:42in South Wales
31:43where industry
31:44and domestic users
31:45have been told
31:45to reduce their water supplies
31:47by 50%
31:48Aside from the genuine problems
31:51caused by water shortages
31:53the real panic
31:55that swept the community
31:57at one stage
31:58was whether the shortage of water
32:01would cause a shortage of beer
32:03eventually
32:09while the nation's self-esteem
32:11was being battered
32:12on the cricket pitch
32:13in the world of Grand Prix racing
32:15one man had the chance
32:17to help Britain regain some pride
32:20Happy Birthday James!
32:21Great!
32:22Blonde tornado James Hunt
32:24was beginning to make his mark
32:25on the Formula One circuit
32:27At that time
32:28James was the darling of the country
32:30and he was a Grand Prix driver
32:32he was a free spirit
32:33Now just a minute
32:34I haven't done my hair yet
32:35I'm not ready to go on the telly
32:36One thing you could just say
32:37about James
32:37was he was never boring
32:38if James was around
32:40you were having an exciting time
32:42Hello girls
32:43He was good looking
32:45got a lot of money
32:46and he loved women
32:48Can I sign your tip?
32:50James Hunt was gorgeous
32:57James' addiction to sex
32:59was extreme
33:00Oh very keen
33:01yes
33:02very keen on the opposite sex
33:03and very successful with them
33:04In 1976
33:06with just a single
33:07Formula One race victory
33:08to his name
33:09Hunt got his big break
33:10becoming a driver for McLaren
33:12but he wasn't the best fit
33:14for such an established
33:15and serious racing team
33:17Had you any idea
33:18that the car might be thrown out?
33:20No, I don't know
33:21I just drive the damn thing
33:24James was gigantically emotional
33:26he threw up
33:27before nearly every race
33:29just before he got in the car
33:30because he was in such a state of nerves
33:32On the grid
33:34sitting in the car
33:35you would think
33:36the engine was running
33:36because he would be shaking
33:37so much
33:38with so much adrenaline
33:39the car accessor
33:40would be vibrating
33:41you could feel it shaking
33:44In the 76 season
33:45Hunt's passion
33:46was thrown head to head
33:47against the ice-cool temperament
33:49of Ferrari's frontman
33:51Nicky Lauder
33:51The Austrian driver
33:53was the world's number one
33:54and James Hunt's McLaren team
33:56was dead set
33:58on taking his crown
34:01The summer of 76
34:02for Grand Prix racing
34:03was an incredible summer
34:04if somebody had written it
34:05as a film script
34:06nobody would have believed it
34:07we had so many incidents
34:08we had this death struggle
34:10between Ferrari's
34:10and McLaren's
34:13By the summer
34:14Lauder was well ahead
34:16in the championship race
34:17the British Grand Prix
34:18in July
34:19in front of a home crowd
34:21was James Hunt's chance
34:22to reverse the decline
34:23It was very clear
34:25by the time
34:26we got to Brands Hatch
34:27that this was a crucial race
34:28for James
34:30Nicky Lauder
34:30had won four races
34:32and been second
34:33in two races
34:33and James really had to
34:35pull his socks up
34:36and start scoring some points
34:37It's been going very well
34:38in practice so far
34:39went well on full tanks
34:40so it's a matter of
34:41getting stuck in
34:42and getting into the race
34:43It's always difficult
34:43to say before the race
34:44but the Ferrari isn't going
34:45too bad here in Brands Hatch
34:46and I hope to win the race
34:48The British Grand Prix
34:50was probably the most
34:51dramatic race I've ever been to
34:53in my life
34:54because when the race started
34:56Nicky Lauder
34:57and his team mate
34:58collided at the first bend
35:02Reggatoni's hands
35:03Hunt flying
35:04Hunt was innocently caught up
35:06in the collision
35:07and his car was badly damaged
35:09The race is being stopped
35:12I got out of trouble completely
35:14I never hit anybody
35:14I stopped on the left
35:16and they just fucking
35:17came and piled into it
35:18The officials ordered a restart
35:20but if Hunt's car
35:22wasn't back on the grid
35:23immediately
35:23he'd be left out of the race
35:25Cordwell had to act quickly
35:27My intention was to delay
35:29the start as much as possible
35:30We needed time
35:32to repair the race car
35:34Alastair Cordwell
35:35was wearing his shoes out
35:37trotting backwards and forwards
35:38to the stewards
35:40desperately trying to buy time
35:42for the mechanics
35:43to finish the job
35:43by raising all sorts of things
35:45and spinning it out
35:48While Cordwell
35:49harangued the stewards
35:50with spurious arguments
35:52the British crowd
35:53quickly caught on
35:54Realising that James Hunt
35:56was going to be excluded
35:57they voiced their disapproval
35:59in a very un-British way
36:01I was in the pit lane
36:03and it was actually
36:05quite a scary place to be
36:06because the British crowd
36:08was very, very angry
36:09and there were beer cans
36:11arriving on the circuit
36:12there were fans
36:14standing up shouting
36:15and screaming
36:15I've never seen a British crowd
36:16act like it
36:17in the whole of my life
36:18We want us!
36:20We want us!
36:21They were chanting
36:22We want James
36:23We want James
36:24They were throwing debris
36:24on the track
36:25We want us!
36:26The stewards
36:27were sitting in their area
36:29and they could all
36:29hear all this going on
36:31and they were undoubtedly
36:33getting very worried indeed
36:35Helped by the angry crowd
36:37Cordwell got what he wanted
36:38The crowd goes wild
36:40Under intense pressure
36:41the officials delayed the restart
36:43long enough for the McLaren team
36:45to fix the car
36:49And off they go again
36:51Hunt was back in the race
36:55What they didn't want to happen
36:56of course
36:56was for Nicky Lowder
36:57to take the lead
36:58which is what he did
36:59In his hastily repaired McLaren
37:02Hunt tracks the champion
37:03In the rush to get his car
37:04back on the track
37:05the mechanics hadn't had time
37:07to properly adjust the suspension
37:09Funnily enough
37:10the car was literally
37:11a bit lopsided
37:12and this actually helped James
37:14because he was able
37:15to go quicker
37:15on some of the corners
37:16than he'd been able
37:17to go before
37:18The battle's really on now
37:20between Nicky Lowder
37:21and James Hunt
37:22Hunt had been in second place
37:25since the restart
37:25finally
37:26after 55 laps
37:28he made his move
37:29They went up the hill
37:30to Druids
37:31The BBC cameras lost it
37:33because there were trees there
37:34but you can imagine
37:36what the crowd
37:36in the grandstand felt like
37:38when the chap who emerged
37:39from behind the trees
37:40first
37:40was James
37:41and he went on
37:42to win the race
37:44and the whole place
37:44went absolutely berserk
37:50It was a national celebration
37:52every paper had headlines
37:54on Monday morning
37:54James Hunt wins
37:55the British Grand Prix
37:57Later in the year
37:58James Hunt became
38:00a British legend
38:00when he won
38:01the World Championship
38:03Looking back
38:04it was fantastic
38:0576 would have to be
38:06the tops for me
38:08probably the best year
38:09of my life
38:141976 was also proving
38:16to be a great year
38:17for home grown
38:18black British band
38:19The Real Thing
38:20They came from Toxteth
38:21one of the UK's
38:23poorest areas
38:24Their song
38:25You To Me Are Everything
38:26was rising rapidly
38:28up the charts
38:29Words could not express
38:30how much you mean to me
38:33I just walked past
38:33the record shop in Liverpool
38:34and You To Me was blaring out
38:36and I wanted to run over
38:37and say look it's me
38:38it's me
38:38that's us
38:44Suddenly there was this group
38:46it turned out were from Liverpool
38:47that made a record
38:48that stood up against
38:50all the great black music
38:51that was being made
38:52in the mid-1970s
38:54I loved it
38:55I bought all the band's
38:56records
38:56I have all their albums
39:01Just four weeks
39:02after appearing on Top of the Pops
39:03the song reached number one
39:05That summer
39:06something happened for me
39:08which I'd given up all hope
39:09of ever happening
39:11It changed our lives
39:13It was so exciting
39:15Wow
39:17We're having a heat wave
39:18A tropical heat wave
39:21As the heat continued
39:22TV programs made merry
39:24Can-can
39:28But out in the countryside
39:30there wasn't much
39:31to laugh about
39:31All over the southwest
39:33hundreds of trees
39:35of all shapes and sizes
39:36are reported to be dying
39:38every day
39:38according to the forestry commission
39:40they're dying
39:41quite simply
39:42of thirst
39:43Earlier efforts
39:45to get the public
39:45to save water
39:46hadn't delivered
39:47the necessary results
39:48It was time
39:49to apply more pressure
39:50Save or suffer
39:52it's up to you
39:53Water authority officials
39:55are using
39:55every opportunity
39:56to hammer home
39:57the message
39:58that if water
39:58isn't saved in the home
40:00jobs will be affected
40:01The situation got so bad
40:04that the government
40:05decided to appoint
40:06a minister for drought
40:07to deal with
40:08the lack of rain
40:10Drought inquiry office
40:11Dennis Howell
40:12previously minister for sport
40:14took a while
40:14to get used to
40:15his new title
40:16But you're talking
40:17to the minister
40:18of sport himself
40:19and I just want to thank you
40:20for ringing up
40:20Ah
40:22The minister for drought
40:23actually a little water
40:24yes
40:24Well I do remember him
40:25becoming minister for drought
40:26I don't know what he had to do
40:27what could he do about it?
40:29A rain dance or what?
40:31There's a sprinkler system
40:32operating where?
40:33Yeah
40:36While the government
40:37worked out how to deal
40:38with sprinkler abuse
40:40the last thing
40:41they expected
40:41was an insect invasion
40:43but that's exactly
40:44what happened
40:51Yes, I remember
40:52we had this infestation
40:54of ladybirds
40:55which multiplied
40:56throughout the country
40:58which we did actually
40:59discussing number 10
41:01It came up
41:02because there were
41:04ladybirds everywhere
41:05there was always this sense
41:06that things were getting
41:07out of control
41:09Because there was no water
41:10around
41:10they were biting people
41:11so these benign ladybirds
41:14that everybody used to love
41:15suddenly became a bit
41:16of a nuisance
41:16and we did have thousands
41:17of them in our garden
41:18and they did nip you
41:21She's just a devil woman
41:23with evil on her mind
41:25Beware the devil woman
41:27She's gonna get you
41:29It was so bad
41:30that people on the beach
41:31had to run in the sea
41:32with their food
41:33because the ladybirds
41:35were eating their food
41:36Can you imagine?
41:38You're sitting there
41:39on the beach
41:39with your sandwich
41:40and these ladybirds
41:41are coming at you
41:42like the killer ladybirds
41:46in the sea
41:47Stay away
41:49Look out
41:50Look out
41:53Throughout the summer
41:54punk rock was rapidly
41:56gaining momentum
41:59The Sex Pistols had been
42:01performing up and down
42:02the country
42:02making waves
42:03and getting noticed
42:04by the music press
42:09They were blazing the trail
42:11for a brand new
42:12underground movement
42:141976
42:15My Musical Taste
42:16is about to do a somersault
42:18June of 1976
42:19I'm a soul boy
42:20Three months later
42:22all of those records
42:23have been hidden
42:24quite literally
42:25hidden away
42:25because now I'm a punk
42:28in June and July
42:29three new punk bands
42:31emerged
42:34The Damned
42:35Buzzcocks
42:36and The Clash
42:37all had been attracted
42:39by the DIY elements of punk
42:41as well as the balmy names
42:43I wanted to be called Dwayne Zenith
42:45I pleaded with the band
42:46Dwayne Zenith
42:47the pinnacle of achievement
42:49you know
42:49but no
42:50Captain Sensible it was
42:51I got a feeling inside of me
42:54It's kind of strange
42:55I can still be seen
42:56All we wanted to do
42:57was play loud
42:58fast music
42:59you know
42:59and kick ass generally
43:01This could happen to me
43:03As long as you
43:04knew three chords
43:05you could play three chords
43:07on the guitar
43:07you could make an album
43:09that was the ethic
43:10That was the difference
43:11you didn't have to be
43:13able to play your instrument
43:14you didn't have to be able
43:14to read music
43:16They rewrote the roles
43:17and even at the time
43:19I thought
43:20that's fantastic
43:24Manchester's Buzzcocks
43:25played their debut gig
43:27after travelling to London
43:28to see the Sex Pistols
43:30The Sex Pistols
43:31gave you the idea
43:32that you didn't have to care
43:33that you could say
43:34what the hell you want
43:35you could swear
43:36you could do anything you want
43:37It gave you a strength
43:38and a fearlessness
43:40you know
43:40I gotta fight now
43:42It was about
43:43just doing it
43:44and realising that
43:45there was lots of things
43:45you could do
43:47which people
43:48wouldn't stop you
43:48from doing
43:49Kids could get away
43:50with this
43:52Little, mobile, warring units
43:55that's how each
43:56of our bands were
43:57and we were attacking
43:58things of substance
44:00from different angles
44:01each of us
44:02and it was better
44:03that we approached it
44:04SAS style
44:08Punk now had a style
44:10and a music scene
44:11it was the audience
44:13that gave it
44:13another unique element
44:14the pogo
44:16You had the twist
44:17in the 60s
44:18and all that
44:18the pogo was very important
44:20you know
44:20because that freaked people out
44:22if you look at some of that
44:23early footage of people
44:24jumping about
44:25doing the pogo
44:26they looked demented
44:27you know
44:30The pogo
44:31is an extraordinary dance
44:33that's basic
44:34and animal
44:35and sexual
44:35it comes from
44:37the Maasai warrior
44:38and the Maasai males
44:40do it
44:41to establish
44:42their manhood
44:43their coming of age
44:45People jumping
44:46up and down
44:47you know
44:48elbowing each other
44:48out of the way
44:49and vomiting
44:50on the floor
44:52Fantastic
44:54One of the most reviewed
44:56and most reviled
44:57rock phenomenon
44:57of recent weeks
44:58we got a few votes
45:00Sex Pistols
45:00Get off your arms
45:04For such an underground movement
45:06punk was making
45:07a huge impact
45:08The Pistols recorded
45:10their first
45:10television appearance
45:11in the late summer
45:13I am an Antichrist
45:16I am an Antichrist
45:17With their new song
45:18Anarchy in the UK
45:19they soon provoked
45:21a reaction
45:21from a generation
45:23who just didn't get it
45:25I hated punk
45:26I know a lot of people love it
45:28I can't see anything in it
45:29I've always hated it
45:30and I hated the Sex Pistols
45:32The music seemed raucous
45:38Their behaviour seemed appalling
45:41It was a pretty sort of negative
45:43rebellious time
45:44among the very young
45:46Disapproval was exactly
45:48what they wanted
45:48The punks were breaking
45:50through the blandness
45:51all around them
45:51and causing a disturbance
45:53Their followers weren't
45:55just into the sound
45:56but were buying the values
45:57wholesale
45:58A revolution in music
46:00fashion and youth culture
46:01had begun
46:03We broke down classes mate
46:05That's what we done
46:06We broke down classes
46:08and structures
46:08and women and men
46:10and the whole lot
46:11and we were together
46:11It was a great, great thing
46:14Punk made everything acceptable
46:16It made everything normal
46:19It said stop disabling people
46:22by judging them
46:23Bugs wearing pink
46:25Oh, you can't do that
46:28Oh yes you can
46:29Oh yes you can
46:31As soon as anybody tells you
46:32you can't do something
46:33Yes you can
46:36In mid-August
46:38Carnival preparations were well underway
46:40With two weeks to go
46:42London's West Indian community
46:43were already full of pride
46:45Their cricket team
46:46had won the Test Series 2-0
46:48But one last match
46:49still had to be played
46:51at the Oval
46:51and the West Indies
46:53now had the chance
46:53to make England grovel
46:55in front of a highly charged
46:57local crowd
46:59Vivian Richards said
47:00when he played at the Oval
47:01he said we're going to play
47:03we're playing at home
47:04because Brixton is a wrong call
47:07Just a spit away
47:09So we all went there
47:11Carnival was in the air
47:13There's a musicality of it all
47:16England's captain
47:17was hoping to regain some pride
47:19but he was leading his team
47:21into the lion's den
47:23The drought had also taken its toll
47:25on the pitch
47:25and was making life
47:26even more difficult
47:28for the English players
47:29The ball racing away there
47:30for fourth ball
47:31I don't think I've ever seen
47:33a ground so parched and burnt up
47:37absolutely brown
47:38couldn't be browner
47:39and the ball would roll
47:41across the outfield
47:42like a rocket
47:43there's no point running for it
47:44Really another great shot
47:46Brum's absolutely blowing
47:48from his bat now
47:53Batsman Viv Richards
47:54was in imperious form
47:55and his heroic performance
47:57came to embody the pride
47:59of the West Indian community
48:00How could you think about drought
48:02at the same time
48:03Vivian Richards
48:05at the Oval
48:06head still
48:07Rassan abandoned his wrist
48:09shoulder square
48:11self-contained
48:13and chewing gum
48:15and concentration
48:16almost militarily so
48:19How could you think about drought?
48:22291
48:24His 200 came up with a single
48:27It brought the now customary pitch invasion
48:30As the West Indies smelled victory
48:31their supporters could hardly contain themselves
48:34running on the pitch several times
48:36to congratulate their heroes
48:37The authorities took a dim view
48:39and stopped the match
48:41It was one of the lousiest crowd performances
48:43I've ever seen in all my life
48:46Once the match restarted
48:48it didn't take long
48:49for England's humiliation to be complete
48:52And what a great delivery
48:54As Michael Holden
48:55took a record 14 wickets
49:00It's a beautiful thing to watch
49:04England was destroyed yet again
49:07and Captain Tony Gregg
49:09was the man who had to grovel
49:16England have taken a hammering
49:18The West Indies have won the series 3-0
49:21What would you like to say
49:22in particular to your rival captain?
49:24Well I'd just like to congratulate
49:25both he and his side
49:27They thoroughly deserve to win
49:28They've given us a good hiding
49:29and good luck to them
49:32Staffordshire declared its own
49:34state of emergency today
49:35as more fires broke out
49:36in woodland throughout the county
49:38Norfolk fire service admit
49:39they're stretched to full capacity
49:41Fire services are at full stretch
49:43in almost every part of Wales
49:45And so the fight goes on
49:47After months of drought
49:49the parched landscape started to burn
49:51and forest fires raged
49:53up and down the country
49:55It was just like living in Australia
49:57wasn't it?
49:58In that things like this
49:59were unheard of
50:00in England of all places
50:01There's also incendiary
50:03the whole summer
50:04you know
50:04it just seems sort of apocalyptic
50:06The force is still fighting
50:08one mountain fire
50:09six weeks after it started
50:10In Dorset
50:12Phil Greaves had just joined
50:13the fire service
50:14still wet behind the ears
50:16Looking back
50:17I can't ever remember
50:18a year that eventful
50:19I just couldn't believe
50:20what I'd joined
50:21you know
50:22the amount of fires
50:22we were having
50:23and for me as a 19-year-old
50:25youngster
50:25it was quite exciting
50:26Can you hear the drums?
50:29Climbed over the hill
50:30on a fire engine
50:30it was like an atom bomb
50:31you know
50:32the vast amounts of smoke
50:34from a firestorm
50:35and just ripped through the area
50:37just unbelievable sight
50:38I was so afraid
50:40Fernando
50:41When the fire got into the treetops
50:43that's when it was scary
50:45you'd be covered in a ball of flame
50:46the fire service
50:48has also been hard-pressed
50:49in other areas
50:50thousands of gallons of sewage
50:52have been used
50:53to help conserve
50:54dwindling water supplies
50:55There was something in the air
50:58at night
50:59The stars were bright
51:01Fernando
51:03We have milk tankers
51:04A lot with milk in
51:05but obviously
51:05milk tankers
51:06sewage tankers
51:07sewage tankers
51:08swim pools
51:09you name it
51:10you know
51:10we dammed small streams
51:12to form ponds
51:13Yeah
51:14I'll go out
51:16where your music takes me
51:19With local fire stations
51:21stretched to the limit
51:22offers of help
51:23were pouring in
51:24One fire
51:25Tony Blackburn
51:26put out a call
51:27on Radio One
51:27St. Leonard's
51:29they evacuated a big hospital
51:30and Jimmy Saddle
51:31came down
51:31and helped with the evacuation
51:33The South Asian army
51:35were superb
51:35he used to come along
51:36with his Battenberg cakes
51:38I mean
51:39I must have had about
51:40300 Battenberg cakes
51:42By July, August
51:43we'd had enough
51:49On August the 29th
51:50the Notting Hill Carnival began
51:57The local police chief
51:59decided to place
51:59more than 1,400 officers
52:01on the streets
52:02for the two-day event
52:10When I drove in
52:12from Brixton
52:13I couldn't believe it
52:15This is not a Notting Hill Carnival
52:17This is a police carnival
52:19because it seemed like
52:20more police than anybody else
52:22Police and things
52:24in the streets
52:26In anticipation of trouble
52:27they'd come down
52:28and, you know,
52:28kind of heavy-handedly
52:29there was a massive
52:30police presence
52:31which kind of
52:32put this mood over
52:33the carnival that year
52:411976 was the first year
52:43I remember kind of thinking
52:44that this is kind of getting bigger
52:45and we should go and investigate
52:47So I went with some mates
52:48to go to carnival that year
52:50and there was this cordon
52:52of riot police
52:53so I said
52:54excuse me officer
52:55can we get through
52:57to get into the carnival
52:58and he just turned around to me
52:59and he said
52:59why do you want to join
53:00all the niggers?
53:04They were everywhere
53:06move
53:07kicking over stalls
53:11you'll have this conflict
53:12at the street corner
53:13between
53:14police who arrested some guy
53:17so there'd be a scaffold
53:20and then
53:21you'd hear comments afterwards
53:23them police for dead
53:29further up this street
53:30another conflict
53:31a band with a flag
53:32wants to turn left
53:33now
53:33VJ knows the road
53:35and if VJ told her
53:36what route she has to
53:37then that's the route she has to take
53:38you're not organizing
53:39the carnival
53:41we were being provoked
53:42and I knew by Sunday
53:45that it was going to be
53:48a battle royal
53:53you could just feel
53:54that there was about to be
53:56war in Babylon
53:59that was the weird thing
54:01people knew we were heading
54:03for major trouble
54:04and no one knew
54:06how to pull out
54:06no one knew
54:07how to stop that from happening
54:21on the evening of the second day
54:23the smouldering resentment
54:24turned into violence
54:27it's funny you know
54:28you're at a carnival
54:29you're digging a sound system
54:31you're grooving on the base
54:32you're smoking your spliff
54:33and the next thing you know
54:34you're hearing
54:35ahhhh
54:37there's 500 cops
54:38charging down the road
54:39with bin lids and truncheons
54:42I was at a mangrove restaurant
54:44and my children were there
54:46and the police stormed the restaurant
54:49and we locked the door
54:51barricaded the walls
54:52and they broke all the glass
54:54shouting
54:55come out here
54:55come outside
54:56you black cunts
54:57come out
54:58come out
54:58and my children were screaming
55:00you
55:02it started off
55:03I understand
55:04with some young
55:05kind of black guys
55:06going around
55:06doing a bit of you know
55:07thievery
55:08but a very small group of them
55:10and then there was a massive
55:11overreaction by the police
55:13stormed in
55:14start hitting anyone
55:15with batons who gets in the way
55:16and those kids decided
55:17they weren't going to put up
55:18with it this time
55:19and they fought back
55:21I was having a group of friends
55:23coming down
55:23Badbrook Grove itself
55:24we were just gobsmacked
55:26amazed at the sight
55:28what looked like a war zone
55:29complete
55:31anarchy
55:51I was underneath the bridge
55:53at Clam Road
55:56I'm not going to apologise
55:57but it was really exciting
56:00to then see the police
56:01running away
56:02down Portobello Road
56:04and for protection
56:05having to pick up dustbin bits
56:10we'd pick up a brick in the bottle
56:11and be like
56:11yeah have some of this
56:12you bastards
56:13you know what I mean
56:13so we were giving probably more
56:15than we got
56:18young as I was
56:19I knew why this was happening
56:23it was payback time
56:27the streets of Notting Hill
56:29were sealed off
56:29and rioting lasted for 48 hours
56:32hundreds were wounded
56:34mostly police officers
56:41the West Indian community
56:42emerged from the riots
56:44with a sense of pride
56:45they had given the authorities
56:46a bloody nose
56:47and a strong message
56:49that they would no longer be treated
56:51without respect
56:52I'm back
56:53there was a feeling of
56:54at the end of carnival
56:56of victory
56:58get up off of that thing
57:00and dance with you
57:01you better
57:02to be honest
57:02it was like a great weight
57:04being lifted off your shoulders
57:06you know
57:06and I'm sorry for the people
57:08that got hurt
57:09and you know
57:09got caught up in the crossfire
57:11there
57:12but for us
57:12it was extremely liberating
57:13it's undeniable
57:14get up on that thing
57:16it put an end
57:17to that idea
57:18that you can just keep people
57:20in their place
57:20that you can treat them
57:22very badly
57:22you can be overtly racist
57:24towards them
57:24and expect them to put up here
57:26get up on that thing
57:28get up on that thing
57:28we had become
57:29not only black
57:31but part of the soil
57:33because when you fight for a place
57:35there's something secret about it
57:36at the end of August
57:38the rain finally came
57:40extinguishing the fires
57:42and at long last
57:43providing respite from the heat
57:47but even 30 years on
57:49the impact of those long
57:51hot unforgettable days
57:53is still with us
57:59the summer of 76
58:00was such an awakening
58:02the big light bulb went on
58:03in my head
58:04that said actually
58:05there's a great world out there
58:07it was
58:07the pivotal moment
58:09in which
58:09the old
58:11grey
58:12monocultural England
58:12was about to change
58:14into something else
58:16it was the summer of all summers
58:18cultural diversity
58:19frill deposit 1976
58:23summer of 76
58:25summer of 76
58:27and peace off
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