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Dance Yourself Free

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Acid House in Britain

In the late 1980s, house music inspired a new movement in the British Underground party scene. But London had one major twist on their version of the house music scene that was very different from Chicago. The American import house music started the craze linked with a so-called designer drug ecstasy. It became known as acid house and spread all over the country. Acid house is said to be probably the most distinctive development in popular youth culture since punk rock in the 1970s. In 1992 an estimated 20,000 people converged on Castle Morton Common at the foot of the More Than Hills for 'Castle Morton Common' festival.

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