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Introduction

I first met Ian Stuart eight years ago in the Hoop and Grapes pub in Farringdon Street. Before then, we both knew of each other even though we'd never met. I knew of him as the lead singer of the skinhead band Skrewdriver whose album All Skrewed Up I'd bought a couple of years before in 1977. He knew of me as the national organiser of the Young National Front since he was, at that time, the local YNF organiser for the Blackpool and Fylde Branch in Lancashire. The purpose of that first meeting between us was to discuss Ian's plans to reform Skrewdriver. It was a strange setting for such a meeting, not least because the Hoop and Grapes is renowned as a favourite drinking place for Morning Star journalists and printworkers.
Throughout the evening, although the subject of reforming Skrewdriver was discussed, we spent most of our time discussing politics. A few pubs and a few pints later we found ourselves in a Fleet Street pub frequented by journalists with Ian sounding off indignantly about the 'scum in the media'! Since that first meeting we have formed a good friendship and have worked closely together in building Rock Against Communism and White Noise Records.

All went well until December 11th, 1985, when Ian was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for defending himself from an attack by a black gang at Kings Cross station. Until then Ian had never been in any trouble with the police but that didn't prevent the judge from meting out such a harsh sentence. Needless to say the blacks that attacked him were never punished and got away scot free. I heard of the savage sentence inflicted upon Ian, and the six month jail term given to his friend and co-defendant Des Clarke, on the morning of December 12th at Snaresbrooke Crown Court where I was facing trial under the Race Relations Act. I remember being horrified by the harshness of Ian's sentence, yet little was I to know that on that very day I too would be given a twelve month jail term. I awoke the following morning, appropriately enough it was Friday the Thirteenth, in a prison cell at Wormwood Scrubs. I'd just spent the first night of my sentence with a Pakistani prisoner as a cell mate and was unsure as to what the next weeks and months held in store. I was, to say the least, somewhat anxious about what the future would bring. Imagine my delight, therefore, when I spotted Ian Stuart in the cell opposite mine as I 'slopped out' that morning! We exchanged a few words and I tried in vain to get a job on the hot-plate where Ian was working serving up prisoners' meals. I was transferred to another wing of the prison on that same day.

In the weeks that followed Ian was transferred to Wayland prison in Suffolk while I was transferred to Standford Hill prison on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Thus it was that we were destined not to see each other again until we were both released on parole six months later; Ian on June 11th, 1986 and me a day later on June 12th. In between time, however, we kept in regular touch by post and it was during this period that I suggested I write a book about Skrewdriver to commemorate the first ten years of the band in 1987. Ian agreed and this slim volume is the results of my efforts.

In closing this short introduction I'd like to dedicate this book to Ian Stuart whose acquaintance I've enjoyed over the years both as a friend and comrade. Without his help this book would not have been possible, not only because of the hours of taped interview he gave me so that I'd have all the background information I needed, but, far more importantly, because without Ian Stuart there wouldn't be a band called Skrewdriver to write about.

JOE PEARCE, April 1987