How Madchester put the E into enterprise zone…

In the late 80s, acid house and ecstasy put Manchester at the heart of the pop universe and helped in the rebirth of a great cityIn 1988 I moved to London to work at Smash Hits magazine, and one of the first things I had to do was create a map of Manchester for the magazine's news pages. Dutifully, I put an X for where the Haçienda was, another for Dry Bar, also Eastern Bloc, the record shop co-owned by 808 State's Martin Price. Arrows pointing down towards Moss Side, for A Guy Called Gerald, u...

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