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Megatripolis

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Megatripolis was an underground London nightclub created by Encyclopaedia Psychedelica/Evolution editor and founder of the Zippie movement Fraser Clark, and partner Sionaidh Craigen as well as a great many others. [1]

44 relations: Absolutely Fabulous, Allen Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg Live in London, Arthur C. Clarke, BBC Two, Björk, Charing Cross railway station, Charing Cross Road, Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Deep house, DEF II, Dub music, Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, Fraser Clark, George Monbiot, Heather Small, Heaven (nightclub), Hemp, Howard Marks, Integrated Services Digital Network, Internet culture, John Major, Journalism, Kings Cross, London, London Stansted Airport, Lynne Franks, Malcolm McLaren, Marquee Club, Minimal techno, Mixmaster Morris, New Age, Nightclub, Pet Shop Boys, Progressive house, Ram Dass, Rave, Richard Branson, Ronin Publishing, Stadium Arcadium, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Trance music, World Wide Web, Zippie.

Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Allen Ginsberg Live in London

Allen Ginsberg Live in London is a DVD film of Allen Ginsberg reading his poetry, singing songs and performing a Tibetan meditation live on stagehttp://www.eclectica.org/v10n3/purdy_ginsberg.html in London on Thursday 19 October 1995, at Megatripolis club-night at Heaven nightclub, London.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Charing Cross railway station

Charing Cross railway station (also known as London Charing Cross) is a central London railway terminus between the Strand and Hungerford Bridge in the City of Westminster.

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Charing Cross Road

Charing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street) and then becomes Tottenham Court Road.

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Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c.33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Deep house

Deep house is a subgenre of house music.

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DEF II

DEF II was a programming strand on BBC2, which aired at 6pm on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 May 1988 to 23 May 1994, to serve the teenage market.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Encyclopaedia Psychedelica

Encyclopaedia Psychedelica was an independent London-based magazine in the late 1980s espousing a return to hippie values at a time when to call someone a 'Hippie' was considered an insult.

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Fraser Clark

Fraser Clark (d. 21 January 2009), was one of the leaders of the global technogaian movement.

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George Monbiot

George Joshua Richard Monbiot (born 27 January 1963) is a British writer known for his environmental, political activism.

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Heather Small

Heather Small (born Heather Smalls, 20 January 1965), is an English soul singer, who grew up on a West London council estate.

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Heaven (nightclub)

Heaven is a superclub in London, England which appeals predominantly to the gay market.

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Hemp

Hemp, or industrial hemp (from Old English hænep), typically found in the northern hemisphere, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products.

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Howard Marks

Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug smuggler and author who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases.

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Integrated Services Digital Network

Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network.

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Internet culture

Internet culture, or cyberculture, is the culture that has emerged, or is emerging, from the use of computer networks for communication, entertainment, and business.

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John Major

Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997.

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Journalism

Journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events.

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Kings Cross, London

Kings Cross is an inner city district in north London, England, 2.5 miles (4.8 km) north west of Charing Cross.

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London Stansted Airport

London Stansted Airport is an international airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the district of Uttlesford in Essex, northeast of Central London and from the Hertfordshire border.

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Lynne Franks

Lynne Joanne Franks OBE (born 16 April 1948) founder of a public relations consultancy in the early 1970s and an advocate, communications strategist, writer and spokeswoman on women’s issues, sustainability and consumer lifestyles.

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Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.

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Marquee Club

The Marquee Club was a music venue first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts.

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Minimal techno

Minimal Techno is a minimalist subgenre of techno music.

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Mixmaster Morris

Mixmaster Morris (born Morris Gould, 30 December 1965) is an English ambient DJ and underground musician.

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New Age

New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Progressive house

Progressive house is a style (subgenre) of house music.

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Ram Dass

Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert; April 6, 1931) is an American spiritual teacher, former academic and clinical psychologist, and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. He is known for his personal and professional associations with Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s, for his travels to India and his relationship with the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, and for founding the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation.

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Rave

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is an organized dance party at a nightclub, outdoor festival, warehouse, or other private property typically featuring performances by DJs, playing a seamless flow of electronic dance music.

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Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist.

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Ronin Publishing

Ronin Publishing, Inc. is a small press in Berkeley, California, founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985, which publishes books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness.

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Stadium Arcadium

Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Terence McKenna

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants.

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Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.

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Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic<!-- The source says electronic music, not electronic dance music ---> music that emerged from the rave scene in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and developed further during the early 1990s in Germany before spreading throughout the rest of Europe, as a more melodic offshoot from techno and house.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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Zippie

The origin of the word is an evolution of the term Yippie, which was coined by the Youth International Party in the 1960s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatripolis

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