Second Summer of Love

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This article is about the late 1980s in the UK. For a song of the same name about this period, see Danny Wilson (band).

The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period between 1988-1989 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed Ecstasy-fuelled rave parties^[1]. The term generally refers to both the summers of 1988/9^[2] ^[3] when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug ecstacy 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, 60's flavour, and the dance culture drew parallels with the hedonism and freedom of the Summer of Love in San Francisco two decades earlier.

1 Accounts of the Second Summer of Love
2 References
3 Further reading
4 See also

[edit] Accounts of the Second Summer of Love

Michael Winterbottom's film "24 Hour Party People" contains an interesting chronicle of some of the events that surround the "Second Summer of Love." It follows the careers of noted Manchester alternative groups New Order and the Happy Mondays during the peak of the movement.

Hanif Kureshi's novel "The Black Album" is set during this period.

[edit] References

^ Reynolds, Simon (1998). Energy Flash. Picador. ISBN 0-330-35056-0.
^ Elledge, Jonn (2005-01-11). Stuck still. AK13. Retrieved on 2006-06-13., "By the end of 1988, the second summer of love was over"
^ History of Hard House. Retrieved on 2006-06-13."As the second "Summer of Love" arrived in 1989"

[edit] Further reading

Collin, Matthew Altered States: The Story of Ecstasy and Acid House London: 1997 : Serpent's Tail -- How rave dances began in Manchester, England in the Summer of 1988 (the [second] "Summer of Love") and the aftermath.