The Second Summer of Love: How Dance Music Took Over the World

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British news media and tabloids devoted an increasing amount of coverage to the hedonistic scene, focusing increasingly on its association with club drugs. Early positive reports such as running articles on the "acid house" fashion would soon become sensationalist negative coverage. The moral panic of the press began in late 1988, when The Sun, which only days earlier on 12 October had promoted acid house as "cool and groovy" while running an offer on acid smiley face t-shirts, abruptly turned on the scene. [16] On October 19, The Sun ran with the headline "Evils of Ecstasy," linking the acid house scene with the newly popular and relatively unknown drug. On 24 June 1989, the newspaper ran its infamous "Spaced Out!" headline after a Sunrise party. [17] See also [ edit ] What was the summer of love?". The Guardian. May 26, 2007. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved August 16, 2017. By the time the band began to demo the third Danny Wilson album in 1991, all three members had written more songs than would fit onto the album, leading to arguments and frustration. Kit Clark attempted to solve the situation by persuading Virgin Records to let him record a solo album, but was rebuffed; following this, he decided to leave the band. [3] Deciding that Danny Wilson would be too much reduced without Kit's contribution ("he was kind of a really good force just in terms of ideas and the flavour of things" [3]), Gary Clark opted to break up the band, maintaining its creative integrity and the friendships between all members before both were spoiled. [3] Andrew Woods (31 July 2018). "Pills, thrills, and Britain's second Summer of Love". The New European.

It was at this event that Timothy Leary voiced his phrase, " turn on, tune in, drop out". [12] This phrase helped shape the entire hippie counterculture, as it voiced the key ideas of 1960s rebellion. These ideas included experimenting psychedelics, communal living, political decentralization, and dropping out of society. The term "dropping out" became popular among many high school and college students, many of whom would abandon their conventional education for a summer or more of hippie culture. Gene Anthony (1980). The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (PDF). John Libbey Eurotext. ISBN 0867194219. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 6, 2007.

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Chris Sullivan (16 August 2018). "Summer of Love – the rise of house music as a great British institution". Silver Magazine. It was so predominantly male, and I thought, I want to do it myself. A Maddie world, a fluffy world, pretty, happy and beautiful for everybody.’ – Maddie Ridgway Brown During the summer of 2007, San Francisco celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love by holding numerous events around the region, culminating on September 2, 2007, when over 150,000 people attended the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love concert, held in Golden Gate Park in Speedway Meadows. It was produced by 2b1 Multimedia and the Council of Light. [49] [50] [51] 50th anniversary [ edit ] Illumination of the Conservatory of Flowers on June 21, 2017 Why women are often missing in reflections on acid house is something Sheryl Garrett, the former editor of the seminal fashion and culture magazine, The Face, also wonders. The Face chronicled acid house while the movement was still in its nascency. “I’m talking at a thing at Scottish Parliament about rave culture,” she says over the phone. “I’m the only woman on the panel. You just think, ‘well why isn’t [leading dance music DJ] Lisa Loud here? Why isn’t [pioneering Balearic DJ] Nancy Noise here? Why isn’t [Shoom co-founder] Jenni Rampling here? Women were quite central to the early days of acid house.” The band's debut album Meet Danny Wilson, written entirely by Gary Clark, was released in 1987. An acclaimed mix of sophisti-pop with elements of soul, jazz and bossa nova, it included an appearance by Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy among others.

a b c Takiff, Jonathan (30 October 1987). "Meet Danny Wilson/Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam/Alabama/Expose". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014 . Retrieved 20 August 2016. Joel Selvin (September 2, 2007). "Summer of Love bands and fans jam in Golden Gate Park". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco: Hearst. ISSN 1932-8672 . Retrieved August 5, 2013.

Onthisday In 1967, The Words "Summer Of Love" Were First Used In The San Francisco Chronicle". Summer of Love. California Historical Society. April 6, 2017 . Retrieved May 18, 2022. Summer of Love concert promoter won't give up – seeks ballot measure". Sfchronicle.com. January 10, 2018 . Retrieved August 31, 2019. CeCe Rodgers: "Seeing massive amounts of people who were different from me literally crying while dancing to a house song was pretty decadent. The lyrics of 'Someday' became bigger then I could ever dream." [via: Skrufff] The US success of "Mary's Prayer" led to its UK re-release with a resultant number 42 UK chart peak. After "Mary's Prayer" topped a BBC Radio 1 phone-in poll of listeners' nominations for 1987 singles which had undeservedly failed to reach the upper UK chart, [3] Virgin Records UK gave the single a second re-release with a resultant number 3 UK chart peak. [5] Meet Danny Wilson generated two more singles: "Davy" and "A Girl I Used To Know", both of which preceded the successful reissue of "Mary's Prayer" but neither of which matched its success. [5] Bebop Moptop [ edit ] T.H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee, (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 172.

a b c d e Weller, Sheila (July 2012). "Suddenly That Summer". Vanity Fair . Retrieved September 28, 2012. Billie Ray Martin: "One of the first house music nights, if not the first, was at Heaven. I had been told there was something called acid house and that it was the new thing. There were about 50 people there that night in the whole place, all doing weird robotic dances, it looked so exciting. And the sound? My ears grew larger each second of it and my body wanted to move to this. My soul opened. It was like ' this is what I've been waiting for all along.' It was incredible, it spread like wildfire." [via: i-D] Selvin, Joel; Young, Malcolm C. (June 11, 2017). "The Summer of Love". The Forum at Grace Cathedral. Grace Cathedral, San Francisco– via vimeo.And so, Paulette wonders why the story of women at the Hacienda has been “written out”. We’re sat in her garden on a sunny afternoon in Manchester, and she suddenly becomes more serious. “Every book you read about the Hacienda, every article – it just seems to gloss over the gay history and the female history of the Hacienda.” It’s something Paulette says she isn’t prepared to take lying down anymore. “History being history, I just feel it has to be factually correct. I was there. Kath was there. In management, there was Ang Matthews. There were women there.” College students, high school students, and runaways began streaming into the Haight during the spring break of 1967. John F. Shelley the then- Mayor of San Francisco and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, [3] determined to stop the influx of young people once schools ended for the summer, unwittingly brought additional attention to the scene, and a series of articles in the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle alerted the national media to the hippies' growing numbers. [ citation needed] By spring, some Haight-Ashbury organizations including Diggers theater and about 25 residents [22] responded by forming the Council of the Summer of Love, giving the event a name. [23] [24] Summing up the Coalesce aesthetic as “Prada, pink fluff, silk and satin,” a 1998 review from iD Magazine observed: “The first thing that hits you is the love.” Creating a warm environment for everyone was always at the heart of Coalesce’s mission, says Maddie. “They walked in and there were flowers everywhere. It became a seasonal world of fluff and fun and love, instead of the male-dominated club world which is very dark and filled with strobe lights. I would go out in the morning and give out silly things like wands and sweets. And the men loved it too.”