The Second Summer of Love

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. The author and dance music promoter Alon Shulman uses exclusive contributions from the world's biggest DJs, to faithfully recreate the story of the summers of 1988 and 1989. Complete with stunning unseen photographs.