House music crosses the Atlantic

By summer 1987 the Chicago house and Detroit techno sound that Frankie Knuckles, Larry Heard, and Derrick May had built underground was crossing into UK pop radio. Steve 'Silk' Hurley's Jack Your Body reached number one in the UK in early 1987. The British rave scene that followed — and the dance vocabulary that came out of it — runs back to those rooms in Chicago and Detroit. The dancers who pushed house from underground to mainstream rarely got credited. Some are still teaching today.