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

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Summer of Love concert promoter won't give up – seeks ballot measure". Sfchronicle.com. January 10, 2018 . Retrieved August 31, 2019.

Chet Helms, Barry Fey and others who were constructing The Family Dog Denver in the summer of 1967 also held a Human Be-In, in Denver's City Park, with the goal of harnessing the Summer of Love vibe to promote Helm's new Family Dog Productions venture, which opened in September, 1967. 5,000 people attended the Be-In, with performances by bands like the Grateful Dead, Odetta and Captain Beefheart. Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary were also reportedly in attendance. As Denver native Bruce Bond states in the 2021 documentary The Tale of the Dog, [40] "It's not like the Summer of Love ended in Frisco. It just moved east, to Denver." On 24 September 2014 the band reunited for their first true public performance in twenty-five years, playing "Mary's Prayer" at the opening ceremony of the Ryder Cup at Glasgow Hydro (alongside other performers including Texas, Amy Macdonald, Twin Atlantic, Eddi Reader and Midge Ure). Emphasizing Kit Clark's solo career and Ged Grimes' ongoing work with Simple Minds, Clark once again stated that the performance was "unlikely to herald a permanent reunion". [1] [11] Personnel [ edit ] Fun Fact: Bruce Forest remixed 'Jesus on the Payroll' using David Cole on piano. The band completed this special "Street Mix", which Paul Oakenfold gives credit for starting the Balearic movement in the '90s. The piano riff was sampled for Bocca Juniors - Raise (63 Steps to Heaven). Flying high: before the internet, raves were advertised on flyers. Party locations were kept secret until the last moment to avoid police raids. Photograph: Dave SwindellsJoel 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. I don’t think the acid-house culture ever really finished. Without it you would never have got garage and without garage you would never have got grime, so basically the biggest music in the world now owes a debt to acid house. In 1993 she was brought into the Coalesce fold by Maddie and the pair built a close relationship. By 1994 she was signed to an agency in Germany; by 1995 she was playing at techno hotspots in Europe and in front of more than 20,000 people at Mayday festival. Being a full-time DJ would involve weekly vinyl runs to Eastern Bloc Records in Manchester for playing sets up to five hours long. “I went over to this underground party with Tantra in a car park in Paris,” recalls Maddie. “It was incredible. There were rows of men 10 deep just trying to look at what records she played. She really stood up in her world as a DJ.”

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 ] Summer of Love Producer is Heading to the Polls After Various Permit Denials". Ampthemag.com. January 12, 2018 . Retrieved August 31, 2019.

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Andrew Woods (31 July 2018). "Pills, thrills, and Britain's second Summer of Love". The New European. These five DJs associated with the early British house music scene reported they were inspired to start these events after holidaying on Ibiza in the summer of 1987 with their friend Johnny Walker. [4] Ibiza was where acid house music first became popular in Europe and the after-hours nature of the club scene emerged. [7] A smiley badge, a symbol of the period

The Second Summer of Love was a late-1980s social phenomenon in the United Kingdom which saw the rise of acid house music and unlicensed rave parties. [1] Although primarily referring to the summer of 1988, [2] [3] it lasted into the summer of 1989, when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug MDMA fuelled an explosion in youth culture culminating in mass free parties and the era of the rave. The music of this era fused dance beats with a psychedelic, 1960s flavour, and the dance culture drew parallels with the hedonism and freedom of the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco. The smiley logo is synonymous with this period in the UK. a b c Whiting, Sam (March 10, 2017). "Tracing the lineage of the phrase "Summer of Love" ". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco . Retrieved May 18, 2022. 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] We are also pleased to announce a special exclusive preview of the first film in the series, Wu Tsang’s INTO A SPACE OF LOVE, a magical realist documentary that explores the legacies of house music rooted in New York underground culture, starring Kevin Aviance, Kia LaBeija with Taina Larot, Jeff Simmons, Shaun J Wright, and Venus X. I’d come off the free festival scene. That was my life,” she tells me over the phone from her home in Bristol. When she discovered free parties, she saw people coming together to just dance, celebrate life, be unified and be on the land.The band released its second album, Bebop Moptop the following year. Gary Clark was no longer the band's only songwriter, as Ged Grimes and Kit Clark co-wrote "I Can't Wait" and Kit also contributed "N.Y.C Shanty", both of which Kit sang on the record. The first single released from the album was "Never Gonna Be the Same", but this was overshadowed by its successor, the hit single "The Second Summer of Love", which reached number 23 in the British charts. [5]