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

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Guy Lodge (25 January 2016). " 'Sing Street' Review: John Carney Scores Once More With New Musical". Variety . Retrieved 20 August 2016. Copy of Certificate of Honor presented to Michael Bowen". City and County of San Francisco. September 2, 2007 . Retrieved November 1, 2008. Gelatin Silver Portraits from the Summer of Love in 1967". Flavorwire.com . Retrieved August 31, 2019. The prelude to the Summer of Love was a celebration known as the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, [8] which was produced and organized by artist Michael Bowen. [9] [10] [11]

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. 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]The band remained a trio throughout its lifetime, hiring in other members (drummers in particular). Lead vocals were shared between the Clark brothers: Gary, as the band's main songwriter, took the majority of these, but over time Kit would sing more of them.

Chris Sullivan (16 August 2018). "Summer of Love – the rise of house music as a great British institution". Silver Magazine. Inskeep, Thomas; Soto, Alfred. "The Bluffer's Guide – Sophisti-Pop". Stylus. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007 . Retrieved 28 April 2016. Eddi Fiegel (2006). Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of 'Mama' Cass Elliot. Pan Books. pp.225–226. ISBN 9780330487511 . Retrieved August 5, 2013. 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 ]

Continuing our celebration with the second Summer of Love, Wag Club founder Chris Sullivan moves into 1988 and onward, charting the explosion of acid house into the mainstream, and the dawn of the legendary illegal warehouse raves and parties…

Transcript (for American Experience documentary on the Summer of Love)". PBS and WGBH. March 14, 2007. Offizielle Deutsche Charts - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved 18 October 2021. By 1990, the rave scene had deteriorated, but that first couple of years people felt like they were really part of a tribe. Acid house was completely inclusive, everyone was welcome and the attitude was infectious. I’m just very grateful to have pioneered that part of the scene. 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. Fun Fact: 'City Lights' was Pitt's debut single and became a hit in France in 1987. Following that, the song became a hit in many European countries, including Spain, where is was number 1 in the charts for a brief period of time.