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CLASSIC CLUBS: Crackers

With the hottest black music, the wildest dancing and a view of a multiracial future, Crackers was foundational for a generation of London tastemakers
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Mark Moore was a true believer

Switched on by punk and the Blitz and the eclecticism of the ’80s, Mark Moore cut to the future and adopted an all-house soundtrack as soon as it was possible.
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Fat Tony doesn’t take requests

DJing with supermodels is all in a day’s work for Fat Tony, a DJ with four decades of celebrity-splattered mischief behind him. Read how clubland’s best-connected spinner pulled himself back from the abyss.
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  • Disco, The Garage and after
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Bruce Forest brought Better Days

One of the first DJs to go full on house music in New York, Bruce Forest was the middle class white kid from the suburbs who won over the hard-to-please Black gay crowd of midtown Manhattan
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  • Celebrating Black British Music
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Jazzie B took his sound to the world

With Soul II Soul, Jazzie B took the ’80s soul-driven confidence of black Britain, crystallised it into a sound and took it to the world.
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  • Celebrating Black British Music
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The Four Aces: Legacy in the Dust

The Four Aces was an international soul stage, iconic home of London reggae, the birthplace of lovers’ rock and Hackney’s acid house temple.
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Gay Bar – Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton-Lin’s brilliant history of gay public spaces is worth it for his hilarious turn-of-phrase alone.
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Tallulah paved the way

The trailblazing London DJ soundtracked London’s coming out. Raucous tales of gay life from the ’60s to the ’00s
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