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Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 16 July 1988

Methylenedioxymetheamphetamine, aka Ecstasy has been described as a "love drug" and "a new age mind bender". Whatever, there is no doubting its effect on a whole generation of trendy clubbers too young to remember the first Summer of Love acid daze.

SEAN O'HAGAN takes a trip to clubland in search of the fact and the fantasy surrounding Ecstasy.

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