Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
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summer of love
Ibiza, Shoom and the summer Britain changed key
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Dallas
CBS
‘You’d see Grace Jones in there, Dallas stars.
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Moments in Love
The Art of Noise
They would meet at bars in San Antonio or Ibiza Town, twenty of them, then thirty, then forty, swelling as the summer progressed, and head out along the main road that links the two towns, to Amnesia, where they would take Ecstasy and carouse till sunrise, or head for the beach at Cala Salada to kick back and see in the dawn, grab a couple of hours’ sleep on the beach, and off again to the Café del Mar in San Antonio bay to hear José Padilla play Art of Noise’s heavenly ‘Moments in Love’ at sunset, followed by another night of Amnesia.
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England’sDreaming
Jon Savage
Jon Savage, describing the pre-punk era in England’sDreaming
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Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
By January 1988, the Ramplings had adopted the yellow Smiley face logo – the symbol of hippies and religious evangelists which had recently been revived by Alan Moore’s hip graphic novel, Watchmen.
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All You Need is Love
The Beatles
Once Paul Oakenfold played ‘All You Need is Love’ at the end of the night and everyone just shoomed together, holding hands and hugging.
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Can You Party?
Royal House
The police arrived to disperse the raging mob, but hesitated, confused; as soon as they switched their sirens on, the dayglo freaks started jumping up and down and shouting: ‘Can you feel it?!’ The perplexed officers could hardly have known that the siren and slogan formed the refrain to Todd Terry’s raucous house classic, ‘Can You Party?’
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We Call It Acieed
D Mob
Rentaquote Tory MPs claimed that acid house was corrupting innocent youth; Sir Ralph Halpern banned Smiley shirts from his Top Shop retail chain; the prime-time BBC chart show Top of the Pops declared a moratorium on all records containing the word ‘acid’ after D Mob’s Trip club anthem ‘We Call It Acieed’ reached number three that month.
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Top of the Pops
BBC
Rentaquote Tory MPs claimed that acid house was corrupting innocent youth; Sir Ralph Halpern banned Smiley shirts from his Top Shop retail chain; the prime-time BBC chart show Top of the Pops declared a moratorium on all records containing the word ‘acid’ after D Mob’s Trip club anthem ‘We Call It Acieed’ reached number three that month.
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