Legend Status

Legend Status welcomes new author Danny Smith

What happens to a group of teenage boys when they are introduced to drugs in the 90s?

In a world before smartphones and doom scrolling, these boys stood on the street corners of the suburbs, dressed in Reebok Classics and bomber jackets, hands in pockets, full of restless energy. Behind them, the red-brick pub and crumbling tower blocks tell the story of a working-class Britain on the cusp of the new millenium — tough, proud, and real. Their expressions are a perfect mix of teenage bravado and uncertainty, a generation growing up fast amid concrete jungles and council estates. You can almost hear the distant hum of traffic, the clatter of a football against a wall, the laughter and shouts echoing between the high-rises. A snapshot of a raw, unpolished era when friendships were forged on the streets, and freedom was found just hanging out under grey skies. Danny Smith is one of these boys and he’s about to get very stoned….