London Subculture 1979-81

The French war photographer Yan Morvan spent most of the 1970s photographing street gangs in the banlieues of Paris. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, he looked for an excuse to come to London, to get a look at how young people were responding to the new British government. He arrived in November of that year, just as the Jam’s Eton Rifles became the band’s first top 10 single.