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One man’s dream

In 1991 James Palumbo invested 340.000 euros of his own capital into a new dance club located in an old South London bus depot. As an old Etonian, a graduate of Oxford University and a former merchant banker, Palumbo was an unlikely entrant into a dance culture that was still raw and far from respectable. He actually preferred classical music.

Difficult start

The Ministry of Sound’s start had been difficult. Dance music had its origin in ‘acid house’, itself with its roots in the futuristic, electronic music of the gay clubs of Chicago and New York. Dance music arrived in the UK during 1988, the so-called ‘Second Summer of love’, strongly associated with the recreational drugs. It was a turulent period dealing with the drug problems. read more about the sucessful bussines *Ministry og Sound here