The development in Denmark Back in the fifties there were no Hells Angels in Denmark, but as influences from USA and England reached the country, different motorcycle cultures came into existence also in Denmark. "Leather jackets" with “duck ass hair”, listening to rock’n roll music, kicked up a row from the middle of the fifties. And in spite of a ban on the film "The Wild Angels", the development speeded up. The Danish - by the press presented - "Wild Angels" (they called themself club 69) were formed in the beginning of the sixties. During the first years they were erroneously characterized as "Leather jackets", but the truth was that The Wild Angels had more unity than the "Leather Jackets”. By Danish standards "things were really going wild", but not until the middle of the seventies did the notorious “rockers” make their appearance. Filthy Few, Dirty Angels, Gipsy Nova, "Gribbene" (The Vultures) and many more. Some of these dirty-clubs as they were called became the forerunners of Hells Angels in Denmark. In the beginning most of the public thought that it was still The Wild Angels who set the agenda in the milieus, but gradually most of them realized that it was a new phenomenon. A new breed with a whole new style. Just like earlier motorcycle-subcultures, the rockers followed the American angels way of life, although at a long distance via the press, films, myths and rumours. There was no contact, and no Danish rocker knew that their “role models” had changed style long ago. The rockers did not care about the next day and had no interests but those which had to do with the rocker life. It was a question of a temporary withdrawal from the society. The rocker - he or she - stood at a stage of development in his/her life, just like the other youth cultures the "hippies" and the "disco freaks" once did. They were on average younger than the members of The Wild Angels, and many had begun their "career" in moped gangs. The models were the American angels, but the development of the “rockers” in the middle of the seventies was inspired from England. After a fairly short period with Japanese motorcycles the preferred brands became: BSA, Triumph and Norton. At that time there were few Harley Davidson motorcycles in Denmark. The Dirty-style was provoking: Dirty, ragged clothes, and preferably with as many offensive symbols as possible. White Power T-shirts, swastikas and other Nazi-badges could really get the "bourgeois animals" "out of the armchair". The rockers were “flock animals”, they loved to provoke and it was always a matter of kicking up a row for the rows own sake. Small conflicts between the rocker clubs were an accepted part of the milieu, and not until the press began to take interest in the phenomenon, did it develop into what should later be called "rocker war". Copyright