The Prodigy didn't kill rave, they reanimated rock'n'roll

Twenty years on from Charly, the Essex ravers are still massive, a testimony to staying faithful to 'mind-cancelling abandon'It seems incredible now, with the Prodigy's 20-year history as the figureheads of out-of-control, hedonistic, devotedly hardcore dance music, but there was a time when Liam Howlett was accused of killing rave. With their public information films cat-sampling techno hit Charly, "Liam was sincerely trying to capture the essence of rave," ran an editorial from the August 1992...

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