»Life is timeless, dreams are long when you're young/ You used to fall in love with everyone/ Any guitar and any bass drum/ Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young.

Life is new and there's things to be done/ You can't wait to be grown up/ Acceptance into the capital world/ You pull on some weed, then you pull on someone when you're young/ But you find out life isn't like that/ It's so hard to comprehend/ Why you set up your dreams to have them smashed in the end/ But you don't mind you've got time on your side/ And they're never gonna make you stand in line/ You're just waiting for the right time.«

(The Jam, »When You're Young«, 1979)

Zwischen den Original-Mods in den 60er Jahren und dem Mod-Revival Ende der 70er Jahre klaffen Welten, rein ökonomisch betrachtet. Weil man sich als englischer Hipster in den 60er Jahren aufgrund der wirtschaftlichen Prosperität sämtliche Extravaganzen leisten konnte, welche ein Mod-Herz begehren mochte (und sei e...