In 1987, four friends from London, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling,
Nicky Holloway and Johnny Walker, took a week-long holiday to
Ibiza. What they saw there, and brought back home, would give rise
to a new global music and counterculture movement. As the eighties
drew to their close, with Thatcherism holding the nation tight in
its grip, something funny was happening right across the jungle of
Britain's nightlife scene. People were dressing down, not up, to go
to clubs. And they were dancing right through the night armed
seemingly with only bottles of water. Ecstasy and acid house music
had arrived on British shores, and a tribal battle between for the
moral future of the nation, between the youth and the
establishment, had begun. In The Second Summer of Love, author and
dance music promoter Alon Shulman uses exclusive contributions from
the world's biggest DJs, including Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Fatboy
Slim, Moby, The Prodigy, Boy George and many others to faithfully
recreate the story of the summers of 1988 and 1989, and chart the
birth and rise of Acid House, dance music and club culture right
through to the modern day. Complete with stunning unseen
photographs, this is the first authentic account of what really
happened in that glorious period - from the politics and the people
to the music, the drugs, the fashion and the culture - told by
people who were there, as they bring to life the creation of an
underground scene which inadvertently altered the course of modern
global youth culture forever.
General
Imprint: |
John Blake Publishing Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2019 |
Authors: |
Alon Shulman
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78946-090-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-78946-090-5 |
Barcode: |
9781789460902 |
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