Londons.Burning

[@KillAllHippies70]

Brilliant ... really reminds me of how it all was back then

[@GriefTourist]

the past is indeed a foreign country! i'd sooner be in that crummy London than the ruthless heartless antiseptic one we have now.

[@rickycaruana8925]

Brilliant bring it back PUNK

[@pattycifra2602]

Really great footage, thank you for posting this, photorikki.

[@johnnymoped]

I was there also, in the graveyard when it all kicked off, it was the first time i had seen a rover 3500 police car, and then it got bricked and turned over i was 14 at the time the clash were ment to play on the roof of the car park across from the beaufort market at the start of the film it shows Fabien Kwest of Raped @ 25 seconds, they were also going to play

[@MrPhotorikki]

thanks for the details! I shot this but don't know Fabien Kwest. Thanks again!

[@photorikki]

yea! I was an American student doing a study abroad program in Bromley at the time. I moved to a squat in London after school.

[@sandramcintyre3895]

I was there! Great memories, my first riot! Shame the bands didn't get to play tho...cant remember who we went to see that nite...long time ago

[@photorikki]

Excellent punks! Lets hear from all who were there that day. Punks coming out of the woodwork!

[@richardwheeler9137]

photorikki I was in your film I'm the punk with the glasses on. Good days banging night. Good times

[@dorothymorrison9203]

I was there. I still have the flyer. What an exciting day that was.

[@artoiscinquantedeux1892]

I was there too. The only reason it all kicked off was the cops manhandling people. Great times!.

[@londonparticulars2968]

I was there. Where does time go when it flies?

[@photorikki]

excellent! thanks for writing.

[@bromleygloss]

Fantastic

[@josephjardim2688]

excellent authentic footage was a punk at the time always up the kings road...brill

[@thomasandersen6719]

Strummer was already an old man in 77..He was 25:-)

[@LordMattyA87]

Who the bird he with at 1:30

[@MsBludgett]

I was there that day. Always hung out on the Kings road as a punk. x

[@petermorris3333]

The identikit cliched Daily Mail “punks” were out in force all looking the same, not realising they were the antithesis of what the had been about - it was two years dead when this was filmed.

[@photorikki]

I filmed it silly lad!

[@phatphrequency]

I was there, at the market and then when the SPG attacked at the graveyard, I remember the penned in group at Sloane Square breaking through the police lines and running round the back of John Barnes...those were the days!

[@punkisinthedetails1470]

Here we go rocking down the West London motorway And on your left you'll see the tower blocks Built in 1963 With hard cash payments from the GLC And over there you'll see Westbourne Park You don't wanna go there When it gets dark London's burning!

[@davidharrison441]

Joe and Johnny cash , rip heroes both .

[@nickhall2845]

Does anyone know who filmed this?

[@dn5803]

Uncle Joe in the thick of it!!!

[@pastcaring]

I was there that day. Camden Punks. SPG out in force, dragging us into side streets and giving us a kicking. [Foxy]

[@richardwheeler9137]

pastcaring I was a Camden punk I'm in the video.

[@rumpraisin]

1979 = year zero in the UK. Thatcher wiped the slate clean.

[@岡本幸治-n6f]

ザクラッシュ、グレイト🎉

[@leeneale8776]

Blimey.....I was 10

[@alastairwest5200]

Joe Strummer as US Cop...

[@ascottishview694]

no it is a Nazi SS officers hat he is wearing, NOT AN AMERICAN COPS HAT!!!!!!

[@francescomusco9998]

W.il.punk.❤❤❤.

[@plejady]

never liked the clash they where there for the cash