RIP Dennis Cockell 1948-2022

In Sweden, where I live, tattoos really didn't start to become fashionable until around the year 2000. Before that they were more or less only seen on sailors and people who had been to prison.

@ronald3836

16 күн бұрын

I think that's true for all of the western world.

@Baltihunter

13 күн бұрын

Maybe it’s your new friends from abroad that’s pushing up the tally

@LapsangTe

13 күн бұрын

@@Baltihunter Not really. Tatoos are very common on everyone, from all ethnic backgrounds.

@Coolcarting

11 күн бұрын

How did you know if the people you saw with tattoos were sailors or had been to prison? Did you ask all of them?

@LapsangTe

11 күн бұрын

@@Coolcarting Let's say it was a wellknown fact back then.

I can't believe he isn't wearing gloves. If he does that most days you'd think his fingers would be permanently black!

Wow i love seeing the old acetate stencils- it’s exactly the same way you make a fancy intaglio print ( like Rembrandt used to make with copper plate) genius use of old school materials before the stencil printers came on the market. I’m not old enough to have ever seen this method in person so this is really cool :) thanks bbc

That first tattoo is actually so cool oh my gosh!!

Still not widely accepted in the early 80's. Marc Almond had to cover his when on TOTP in '81.

@Liofa73

21 күн бұрын

It’s not really widely accepted nowadays. It’s still seen as grubby and dirty. People still cover them up for interviews. It’s quite the fad to have tattoos though. And let’s face it, there are still some awful ones out there. And a lot are going to look terrible as people age. :) I guess as long as people are happy with them…

@moominmay

21 күн бұрын

@@Liofa73I’d say it is widely accepted now no one bats an eyelid except maybe boomer generation lol. I see many public servants including a great number of police officers with them. Who cares really as long as they do their job/are a law abiding person. Must admit makes me wonder why people choose what they do - a friend’s teenager got one as soon as she turned 18 which read ‘That’s life’. Not sure what that’s about given she’s barely lived yet lol

@griswald7156

7 күн бұрын

@@moominmay maybe she’s a fan of Esther Rantzen…

@RBC0405

2 күн бұрын

​@Liofa73 you must be joking? They have never been more accepted than now. Very very few people would get employed with a face or neck tattoo 20 years ago. Now? Not a problem.

@griswald7156

2 күн бұрын

@RBC0405 is that so hmph!

Now you stand out if you don't have tattoos.

@hopebgood

21 күн бұрын

I agree mate.

@istvanvilmos8400

20 күн бұрын

I'm the only father at my child's school who doesn't have a tattoo.

@RealUlrichLeland

20 күн бұрын

About a quarter of Brits have tattoos today.

@martinsolomon5500

20 күн бұрын

@@istvanvilmos8400You’re probably the only father at school. Oh wait….

@Skaterbun

19 күн бұрын

@@RealUlrichLelandwow us that all I thought it would be more, how do you know who has tattoos? Some people who got them in their youth on a whim are now embarrassed because they don’t fit in with their lifestyle hide them.

That tattoo removal looks rough, they've basically burned out a slice of her skin. Nowadays they pulse the laser so it doesn't actually burn you

@4thinternational283

17 күн бұрын

The old Carbon lasers were brutal, but very effective. Sometimes the skin had to be stitched following certain removal procedures in those days.

Dennis Cockell was responsible for some of the 'Stray Cats' early Tattoos,and is name checked on the rear of the 'Runaway Boys' picture sleeve from 1980.

I was tattooed by him in '98. He also had a tattoo shop opposite the Raymond review bar in Soho, Diamond Jack's. The only one allowed in Soho at the time. Now there are loads.

@Thirdfish

8 күн бұрын

He tattooed Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols.

I did the transfer drawings for a shop in St Pauli (Reeperbahn) Hamburg, Germany. That was in the 90s and a lot of the actors from the musicals going on at the time came and got one. A judge was a regular and over the time of 3 moth I watched his progression to a full sleeve. A girls designed her own back sheet and I watched the beginning of it. It was based on an MC Escher cut(air, water and soil..sorry bad translation). Fish in a pond with the reflection of the sky and leaves floating on the surface. I'll finally get my first tat this year: a cicada as in Texas 2024 in a new emergence.

Elaine got that femme fatale thing going on

I’ll never forgot one of my friends talking about tattoos and saying “Why would anyone want to look like a colouring book?” - always made me chuckle.

@jadebel7006

21 күн бұрын

Wow so original how smart lool your friend must be like a scientist or something 😂🤣

Somebody knew what they were doing with that thumbnail Confessions of a Tattoo Artist

@babypicassoeisenstein

21 күн бұрын

eh? that slipped my mind. i only came for tattoos. what drew you in?

@brianmmacu

21 күн бұрын

On the tv, it shows her and a man with his shirt off behind her I haven't seen it since this morning, maybe they've changed the thumbnail? Different thumbnail on phone

@babypicassoeisenstein

21 күн бұрын

@@brianmmacu Oh no it's the same thumbnail. My mind just didn't go 'there'. I only clicked because I was curious about what the tattoos would look like.

Fascinating.

Watching this makes me smile posh accents very old style BBC

"Just a bit more hygienic" - *puts fingernails on raw tattoo*

@YourRecoveryDealer

13 күн бұрын

Timestamp?

if you regret your tattoo, then you weren't a candidate in the first place, and should never have had one

@dodibenabba525

18 күн бұрын

You're not old enough to comment on that

@ronald3836

16 күн бұрын

Nobody wants to wear what they were wearing 20 years ago, let alone 30-40 years ago. People who get tattoos somehow think they won't age (or, more likely nowadays, don't think and just follow the herd).

My sister got her (then) husband's name tattooed in a similar area to Elaine here (4:50) Well, when Damien ran off with another woman, Kim went back to the tattooist and got his name covered up with some roses. My brother got his wife's name tattooed on his leg, and both siblings turned to me and asked why I didn't have my wife's name tattooed on me somewhere. I said that I *hate* being jabbed with needles (- oh, these past few years...!) of any sort. And, thus, if you think I'm getting Tjandrawasih's name tattooed across my chest, forget it!

@eldiablo3794

20 күн бұрын

The only names I have tattooed on me are my mom and grandmas name.. getting a significant others name like a husband or wife's name tatted on you is like a cardinal sin.. it always ends up cursing the relationship, lol.

@howey935

17 күн бұрын

@@eldiablo3794 I had my fiancé’s name tattooed on me but it was a memorial tattoo after I lost her.

Hehe I remember this as it sparked up a row again as I had gotten my first and second tattoo's that summer with me name on arm and "skins" on upper arm and me parents went beswick over it as I was only 13 and got them both done for £1 on Brighton pier whilst on a day trip with the lock up childrens home I was in... So on home leave the time this went up on the telly me old girl started kicking off about it then me father got involved going at me too and I went home to the home early much aggrieved with life...

Tattoos=pure conformity

@GeoffreyBronson

Күн бұрын

So is wearing clothes but you don't comment about that

As with all art, quality, style, and placement matter. Tattoos can be stylish, sophisticated, and sexy, or they can be trashy, base, and unattractive.

@rarebreed1984

9 күн бұрын

No.

Well, I for one would like to know how Elaine's life turned out bless her. So, Elaine are you here? 🌞

@nottmjas

7 күн бұрын

Seems like the sort of West London gal who would have enjoyed herself throughout the eighties before getting hitched and settling down

Tattoos...upmarket? Hardly.

@finnclive9695

3 күн бұрын

Churchill …

@DepakoteMeister

3 күн бұрын

@@finnclive9695 A inspirational man and great leader, but I can't recall anyone thinking of him as 'upmarket'.

Nice lines 😊

Go out & buy a heavily patterned shirt that you like, put it on and never take it off for the rest of your life. That's what a tattoo will feel like.

@minamogwai5400

11 күн бұрын

Not really. They feel like collecting peoples artwork and having a piece of someone you respect forever.

@Kevster-dp7tt

11 күн бұрын

@@minamogwai5400 But not may people stay the same forever. I know because I'm pushing 60. When I was in my twenties I believed I'd stay loyal to the things I liked forever but I didn't. None of us do. If we did you'd see old guys walking around with skateboards under their arms. Your tastes change dramatically as you mature. Do as you wish but try and think beyond the moment.

@vooligan9499

2 күн бұрын

​@@Kevster-dp7ttWe may not stay the same forever, but being so afraid of embracing your passions and painting your story on your body with beautiful artwork to remind yourself of all of the people you have been throughout your one life seems like a waste to me personally. We all have our own opinions of course, but the concept of regret exists only for those who think too much and enjoy too little.

@Kevster-dp7tt

3 сағат бұрын

@@vooligan9499 I'm not afraid of embracing my passions. What made you draw that conclusion?

Poor lady having that thing on her chest, for 30 years hating it - effecting her in a negative manner.

Oh man a young Dan Schneider

@chelseabray7565

8 күн бұрын

😂😂

I’ve had a tattoo for 50 plus years and I’d miss it if it wasn’t there. Although a tattoo is something that you’d be better be sure off before you mark yourself forever.

The difference between someone with tattoos and someone without tattoos, the one with tattoos won’t make comments about one without

@user-vw6bk4pb4l

15 күн бұрын

Do you have tattoos?

@DepakoteMeister

13 күн бұрын

Same as one legged people don't make comments about two legged people. People comment about the abnormal ones, why would anyone comment on normal?

@HarryHewitt-lh8xx

12 күн бұрын

I see a lot of idiots, who wear shorts and tee shirts in the winter. Guess what, they have tattoos. “ look at my tattoos”. A friend had tattoos on his hands. Told me he regretted them after various failed job interviews. Saved for a long time for laser removal . Big change in him after he had them burnt away. Nice guy.

@DepakoteMeister

12 күн бұрын

@@HarryHewitt-lh8xx I was on holiday by myself in Dominican Republic some years ago, and I met two German lads who were covered in tattoos and had piercings everywhere. I saw them a couple of days later in the evening and they were looking a bit troubled so I asked them what was wrong. They said they had failed to make any friends on holiday. I had to explain to them the sad reality that some people naturally find their appearance threatening, which was such a shame, as they were both genuine friendly guys. They were in tears.

@catlikepizzagaming8280

10 күн бұрын

Ignorant ballbags should worry about their own behaviour not what has no influence on their life

The good old days of tattooing

That guy with the Freddie Mercury moustache

They called it hygienic oh wow how times have changed

@CRN8091

19 күн бұрын

No nitrile gloves 😂

@hatednyc

10 күн бұрын

Today is just overkill. They didn’t have outbreaks of infection then.

So nice you don’t have to worry about tattoos stopping you getting a job or people seeing you a different way these days (for the most part)

@tomf4547

Күн бұрын

Not if you have it on your arse.

No rubber gloves 🧤

No gloves yet said it’s hygienic

@Thirdfish

8 күн бұрын

Different times.

I like tats but I wouldn’t get any what I really would regret later on so so far I only got one

"Oh Lydia, oh Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh, Lydia, the tattooed lady"

I’m 58 and have never wanted one. Only rarely do I see one that has been well done and is artistic. Most are just awful scribbles.

Sailors, gang members, convicts - still the same perception of tattoos where I live.

@andrewbarry5130

20 күн бұрын

How sad.

@martinsolomon5500

20 күн бұрын

You live in 1986 - wow.

@PeaveyPV20

18 күн бұрын

You must live in a very snobby area

I know plenty of blokes in there 60s and 70s who will have got tattoes around this Time but was very rare for women, only women i know with tattoos in there 60s got them later on in life. Times have changed. I went to the doctors about 4-5 year back and the doctor had tattoo sleeves on each arm

I didn’t realise the late 70s was the dawn of high end tattoos. I thought it was the late 80s. Likewise with the tattoo removal.

Now we have offices full of people like this, shameful.

I imagined the comments section would be full of folk feeling compelled to tell us all how much they dislike tattoos and how unique they are to not have one. I was right :)

No gloves worn then 😬 well known artist though, I’ve heard the name a lot before. R.I.P. Dennis.

What they didn't mention here, is that the ink goes into your lymph nodes and stays there for ever, and can cause lymphoma.

5:05 you little devil you 😈😏

I wonder if any of these people are still alive.

@brianmmacu

21 күн бұрын

It was 1980, so very likely

@jadebel7006

21 күн бұрын

Come on man it was only 44 years ago lool

@oblidioblada89-ty8fz

18 күн бұрын

Yes of course.. people just looked more aged back then, the guy with the eagle tattoo is probably in his 70's today.

A t shirt with a design on I used to wear last year isn't something I like this year, that's how I see tattoos

@AndrewCherry458

22 күн бұрын

A painting that I've had in my house for decades is how I see them

@LordFlashheart1

22 күн бұрын

@@AndrewCherry458 old and dusty?

@AndrewCherry458

22 күн бұрын

@@LordFlashheart1Ever thought of script writing for BBC comedy? With comebacks like that you could actually be the new Rik Mayall!

@LordFlashheart1

22 күн бұрын

@@AndrewCherry458 who are you, the Gas man!?

@UnjustifiedRecs

22 күн бұрын

Well done, tattoo's aren't for you

I’ve seen 2 removed tattooos and they were a smudge and scar was left the size of the tattoo..people look as if they’ve been burned ,you can guess that it’s a tattoo removal..

@zawrator4457

8 күн бұрын

Of course they’ve been burned, tattoo removal is done by laser lol. It fades over time

Elaine Jenkins is a saucy one.. a bit naughty. RIP Mr Cockell.

Why?

@minamogwai5400

11 күн бұрын

art

Hated tats then, still hate them now.

@Ian-gw2vx

21 күн бұрын

Me too. Tacky

@minamogwai5400

11 күн бұрын

@@Ian-gw2vx its just art. some tattoos are beautiful

acetate and graphite....oh boy !

@theprogrammerrolandmc3039

9 күн бұрын

Imagine all the men at the club when they see that bird 🤣

I have none and people think im a freak

Didn’t realise yakuza tattoos were popular! Hahaha

Never understood it each to there own

It was more fun in the days when you feared dying of AIDS from getting a tattoo and when there wasn't Google Images to steal designs with. The advent of the disposable needle, the disposable plastic everything covered things and the internet for comparing design inspirations changed everything, for the better, but taking some of the fun out of it.

Never met a financially struggling tattoo artist. But I have met many people that shouldn't be tattooists as they are not artists. Go to an artist you've chatted to and trust and get on with. Don't pick it out of a book. Make your first one meaningful (but not about a significant other) See your tattoos as a life journey, so one you don't like anymore was just who you were. It REALLY hurts. Lies 😂😂😂

Bet you can’t get tattoo removal on the nhs these days

@Test-Tube-Baby-xo8xx

14 күн бұрын

Quite rightly. Why should the taxpayer fund the mistakes of idiots? You bought the tattoos, you pay for it removing.

2024….All the sheep are tattooed and they think they’re being an individual. The curse of the hoi polloi.

@Test-Tube-Baby-xo8xx

14 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn

12 күн бұрын

Agreed

@minamogwai5400

11 күн бұрын

I just like collecting amazing peoples art and listening to their stories in an intimate setting. I get tattoos because they are one thing you can take from people and keep forever. I think its beautiful

@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn

10 күн бұрын

@@minamogwai5400 cringe

@minamogwai5400

10 күн бұрын

@@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn ok 👌

I have a tattoo, it’s a dedication to my wife in Chinese script on my left forearm, as she is Chinese. I picked out the typeface and had it done at a tattooist in Banbury. Very quick and reasonable. I love it more now than the day I first got it, just like I love my wife more and more as well. I may yet get a swallow as I’m in the navy and coincidentally her name translates to the bird from the Chinese language, very traditional nautical tattoo and quite apposite for her too.

@swaneknoctic9555

19 күн бұрын

Fascinating mate.

@Chris_34

16 күн бұрын

Chinese script? You have no idea what it says, then. Probably spells out "cock". 🐓😂😂😂😂

@Test-Tube-Baby-xo8xx

14 күн бұрын

I've seen it. I speak Chinese, it says 'I'm a homo and I especially like hairy men.'

@BillyJango

13 күн бұрын

Is that really a thing these days? To have ONE tattoo??😆

Tattoos are never upmarket!!!!

Tuttoos.

To think all those hip and trendy 20-30 somethings of 1980, (a year I remember very well like it was yesterday as a 16 yr old) would be around 70 -80 years old now 😮 scary how time takes no prisoners.

One thing bothers me about tattoos. It’s when people say ‘classy tattoos’ as if the term is a thing which actually exists. By their very nature, tattoos are the polar opposite of anything related to being classy.

@DepakoteMeister

13 күн бұрын

Exactly

@minamogwai5400

11 күн бұрын

The definition of classy is stylish and sophisticated which tattoos can be.

@carouselcakes6237

11 күн бұрын

@@minamogwai5400 Tattoos sophisticated?? Now there’s a juxtaposition if ever there was one.

@minamogwai5400

11 күн бұрын

@@carouselcakes6237 it’s art. I know many people who would say art can be Sophisticated

@carouselcakes6237

11 күн бұрын

@@minamogwai5400 Nobody said they weren’t art. What we’re talking about here is the ridiculous notion that they can be considered classy.

Taboo tattoos

I have never understood the appeal of a tattoo.

@troyworden9428

19 күн бұрын

I’ve never understood the appeal of plain skin

@marciabaldwin2506

18 күн бұрын

Yet you're watching a programme about tattoos 😂

@GhastlyCretin

18 күн бұрын

​@@marciabaldwin2506What a silly point.

@hopebgood

17 күн бұрын

@@marciabaldwin2506 🙄 I'm Subbed to this channel and watch most of it's output.

@ruydiculous8564

9 күн бұрын

Get one and you’ll get it

7 layers of skin?? We penetrate 4?? I thought we have 3 layers and penetrate 2 layers! He had no gloves on🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 the earth must have been flat in the 80s as well🤣

That hot girl is a grandma now 😅

@Liofa73

21 күн бұрын

And I bet nobody sees the tattoos.

"But in body decoration we are still a long way behind the primitive tribes of Africa and Asia. They painted their bodies to scare away demons..." Thats a lie🤣

I think I must be one of the few people who hate to see tattoos. I honestly think that however “ well” they have been executed ,they still make the recipient look like an ex con. I won’t even comment on face tattoos. When I was a kid my mum and dad would take me to places like Bridlington and Whitby. There I often saw old tanned fishermen sitting on the quayside mending nets. Almost all had a faded tattoo of an anchor or ship or sweethearts name. It was a cultural thing and fitted right in with the single earring many of them had . They looked the part . Today they are everywhere and look particularly awful on young women. I think this trend was all begun by Paula Yates………enough said.

lol, the mainstreaming of tattoos was one of the chief indicators of the united states' steep cultural slide. 😔

RIP Dennis Cockell

The tattoos on people with an order for a Chinese takeaway is hilarious. In your 20's, this is so "cool", in your 50's they look ridiculous.

Around 1980, there was a teatime news item on tattoos where a woman revealed her naked tattooed breast to the camera. She reminded me of Kate Bush and I'm sure it was either on Look North or Nationwide. I really thought this was going to be it after all these decades. Ah well, maybe it was just a wet dream I had about Kate Bush. Kids, eh? 😂

I never understand people who get a silly little butterfly on their shoulder or some puny star on their foot, just so they can say they have a tattoo. If you're going to have a tattoo, have a tattoo.

@subswithoutvids-dw6dv

22 күн бұрын

it's like a sticker but very sticky

Why in hell would anyone get a tattoo?

@user-vw6bk4pb4l

15 күн бұрын

Why would anyone take harmful drugs or get drunk on a weekend?

@swaneknoctic9555

14 күн бұрын

Because so many people can't think for themselves, so stupid they have to follow idiotic trends without even questioning why.

@DepakoteMeister

13 күн бұрын

​@@user-vw6bk4pb4lBecause they wear off very quickly, and everyone won't know.

Tattoos are so trite. They reek of insecurity and immaturity. I shudder to think what all the faded tattoos will look like in 30 years time when the ink has bled into the wrinkly skin. Care homes are going to look like victorian freak shows.

The tattoos from then look naff, so the Hipsters tattoos of today will look naff in the saggy future 😂

No gloves 🤮

When anything becomes fashionable, the insecure sheep line up to wear it.

@swaneknoctic9555

14 күн бұрын

No better than animals in my opinion.

Hilarious.

Get a buttock-fly tattoo

Shes a babe...

@L-quepe

22 күн бұрын

You should ask her out

@oakie007

22 күн бұрын

@@L-quepe I would if I had a time machine...

@professormcclaine5738

22 күн бұрын

Ding dong.

@subswithoutvids-dw6dv

22 күн бұрын

​@@L-quepe just like asking a grandma out

@tonemc6047

18 күн бұрын

Ooohhh sex.

It is still women no better than they ought to be.

Tattoos are garbage, body is a temple.

@Dungeonfreak

21 күн бұрын

Because temples are famously undecorated

Tattoos are disgusting. They set a level…low. I will not employ or do business with anyone with tattoos.

@tonemc6047

18 күн бұрын

I bet you’re fun at parties.

@DepakoteMeister

13 күн бұрын

​@@tonemc6047Because there is a definite link between the two right? 🙄

Tattoos are on their way out !!!! the ones who get them is just to get attention and explain why they got them, others do it because they just want to do what everybody else is doing that's all, bunch of insecure pathetic people.

@saturno1985able

21 күн бұрын

@@algrant5293 Well, after meeting and working with hundreds of them, one gets the gist, start to do the numbers or figure it out or whatever you might want to call it, there are lots of them that are decent people.

@PurityVendetta

20 күн бұрын

Wow, semi literate rant. Aren't you the social commentator 🤣🤣🤣

@swaneknoctic9555

19 күн бұрын

Completely agree. Limited shallow sheeple.

@tonemc6047

18 күн бұрын

I bet you got the jabs though !

@saturno1985able

18 күн бұрын

@@tonemc6047 Bet wrong

When the Romans came, Britons were covered in tattoos; when the Christians came, they were covered in tattoos again; when the Normans came…

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Never understood this primitive self mutilation .. using the term ‘art’ for these rough illustrations is a joke! Walking around my town I get the impression people get really fat to make room for more tats! As you age they get worse and worse and look like a scribble on tissue paper that got left in the rain!