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Flickr has been uploading some yellowing newspaper clippings from
the acid house era. This one from the Sun, 2 November 1988, sums up the late
Thatcher period. A ludicrous acid house 'trip to hell' cartoon next to an image
of Margaret Thatcher as Superman!
Well with Duke
Dumont's slice of retro-house Need U topping the UK
charts in the week of Thatcher's death, we can safely say that house music has
outlasted her. Even if bizarrely Need U has been knocked off the top slot by
people buying Judy Garland's Ding Dong The Witch is Dead to mark the demise of
the one-time Iron Lady.
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| From Music Week, 10 April 2013 - Thatcher should never have messed with the Friends of Dorothy |
Related: Thatcher's War on Acid House by
Michael Holden (vice.com, April 2013):
'First she came for the milk. Then she came for the
mines. Then she ran out of things to come for, so she went after the soccer fans
and acid house. It might sound unlikely in an age where there are a pair of TV
screens showing Sky Sports in every pub in the UK, but if you wanted to go
toe-to-toe with the establishment at the tail end of the Thatcher years, the
fast track to getting a beat down from the police was to watch soccer or listen
to a series of repetitive records with the intention of dancing.
If you were looking for a measure of how the country has
adjusted since Thatcher's reign, you could do worse than consider how two
constants of the modern mainstream—soccer and electronic music—were once painted
as folk devils by a regime fast running out of new things to point its police
horses at... for young people, the harshness of the establishment’s war on the
twin evils of soccer and dance music came as something of a surprise. It wasn’t
till I fled a party in Dalston in 1989 that I felt it firsthand. The motivation
for my hasty departure was the sudden entrance of a group of cops based at Stoke
Newington Police Station who were notorious in the area for their thuggery.
They'd come in, take the numbers off their uniforms, and break things up about
as violently as they could without firearms, swinging at male and female ravers
alike...'
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