Wikipedia: > Although primarily referring to the summer of 1988 it lasted into the summer of 1989, when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug M

Wikipedia: > Although primarily referring to the summer of 1988 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. I was at clubs in London (both as a punter and as DJ) in 1980-83, and ecstasy, if a thing at all, was not widely available or used. Its use ballooned later than that. And it was 1994 before the UK government attempted to ban raves by banning a certain kind of music. I left the UK in 1989, and felt very disconnected from the rave scene that was happening at that time, but it is definitely my impression that it did not blow up into a truly massive scale till after 1990, though it was certainly alive and well at the end of the 80s.