For the Danny Wilson song "The Second Summer of Love", see Bebop Moptop.
Second Summer of Love
"Spaced Out!" – tabloid headline during the Second Summer of Love 1989
Date
1988–1989
Location
United Kingdom
Participants
Ravers, house musicians
Outcome
Rise of acid house music, raves, and acid house parties
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.
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