15 March 2009

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When DJs ruled the world

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 02:36 PM PDT

Former Mixmag editor Dom Phillips has penned an intriguing article for UK broadsheet The Independent, lifting the lid of the '90s phenomenon of the superstar DJ. Taken as an extract from Phillip's 'Superstar DJs Here We Go!', he tells the story of the mainly UK DJs that rountinely circumnavigate the length and breadth of the country in a single night, playing to packed crowds in often obscure clubbing outposts for massively inflated fees. Jocks such as Pete Tong, Judge Jules and Norman Cook quote some of the quite frankly staggering amounts of money (up to £140,00 in Cook's case) they received for gigs as part of the millennium celebrations.

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