Mixmag: 'Did Charly kill rave?'

August 1992: Number 22 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicRave music ceased being an underground movement in the early 90s as the charts filled with songs containing blatant drug and club references, from Sesame's Treet by Smart E's to the Shamen's Ebeneezer Goode ("Eezer Goode, Eezer Goode – he's Ebeneezer Goode"). Did these acts cheapen the genre? As Mixmag asked at the time, did the Prodigy's  Charly kill rave? The band didn't think so. Their frontman Liam How...

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