Shoom: An Oral History of the London Club That Kicked Off Rave Culture

In September 1987, four London club and pirate-radio DJs – Nicky Holloway, Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling and Johnny Walker – spent a week on the Balearic island of Ibiza, a place where, legend had it, as journalist Chris Heath wrote in 1990, "it was even possible to get drugs on room service." The British quartet was visiting Trevor Fung and Ian St. Paul, with whom Oakenfold had thrown

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