Grime music emerged in the early 2000s and has now become one of the most prominent British music subcultures. Upon leaving school at the age of sixteen, he moved back to London and became a darkroom assistant at Camera Press.

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laughs] You’ve got a culture stemming from Black and whites uniting, sharing and mixing their music and then the world thinks it’s somehow connected to Adolf Hitler. He and his friends would do “what most teenage boys from 14 to 18 would be doing in a rural council estate…. Over its 40 years in business, PIAS has grown to be one of the largest independently-owned music groups in the world, carving out its own in-house recorded music division PIAS [Recordings]. As This is England director Shane Meadows comments in the foreword, 'What makes Gavin's photos so special is that when you look at them, there's clearly trust from the subject towards the photographer so it feels like you're in the photo rather than just observing'.At the bottom of the pile, working-class world I was growing up in, photography was a luxury but everyone still had a Kodak Instamatic, which was a poor man’s camera. Rumours circulated that a prominent football hooligan and far-right activist had hurled a homophobic slur at Crane, who in response had inflicted a severe beating which the victim was lucky to survive.

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He was a man of action, not ideology - a doer who left the thinking to others, and this may be what led a confused, angry young man to fascism in the first place. I meet modern stylists and they ask me how I set it up, I didn’t get on the phone with a modelling agency and ask for a boy that looked like young Leonardo DiCaprio, or hire a stylist who knew about skinhead fashion.They are the ones that don’t have the power – but they have the power in their clothes, their art, and their relationships. Ripped T-shirts and safety pins became a punk staple, as well as zips, studs, badges and armbands that were being used to make political statements. When you went to school the next day, your mum was talking about him and your classmates were talking about him too.

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Records emerging from the Northern Soul scene became known as ‘stompers’ for their soulful vocals and heavy beats. Two decades after Crane's death, says Healy, the skinhead is "recognised as a gay man unambiguously in London and Manchester". I’m going to be doing an anthology book next year with my publisher, which is going to put some of that stuff out and I think people will be surprised because they’ll see pictures they didn’t know were mine. Grime evolved from previous electronic music such as UK garage and jungle, and is also influenced by hip-hop and dancehall music.

He also mentions its role in helping his dyslexia as well as how it gave him a channel to process his teenage frustration: “Instead of just being angry, I did something with it and expressed it. I literally had no involvement in the editing [of the new book], because it’s so personal,” he clarifies. Instead, his friend Rini Giannaki took on the hefty task of editing the book, which features images that had been carefully archived over the years by his father. Some teddy girls would put a feminine spin on the typical teddy style with straw boater hats, brooches, espadrilles and elegant clutch bags. As clashes between police and striking miners becoming increasingly bitter, football hooligans across the country were fighting it out with unprecedented ferocity.