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The 1969 Isle of Wight Festival was held on 29–31 August 1969 at Wootton Creek, on the Isle of Wight. The festival attracted an audience of approximately 150,000 [1] to see acts including Bob Dylan, the Band, the Who, Free, Joe Cocker, the Bonzo Dog Band and the Moody Blues. It was the second of three music festivals held on the island ...
In August 1969, the band made an appearance at the Isle of Wight Festival in front of a crowd of an estimated 120,000 people. The line-up also included Bob Dylan & The Band, The Nice, The Pretty Things, The Who, and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. [4] On 27 September 1969, Fat Mattress (along with The Who) appeared on the German TV show, Beat-Club ...
The 1970 event was by far the largest of these early festivals and the unexpectedly high attendance levels led, in 1971, to Parliament adding a section to the Isle of Wight County Council Act 1971 preventing overnight open-air gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the island without a special licence from the council. The event was revived in ...
In August 1969, Cocker performed at the Isle of Wight Festival at Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight, England. [23] Throughout 1969 he was featured on variety TV shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and This Is Tom Jones. Onstage, he exhibited an idiosyncratic physical intensity, flailing his arms and playing air guitar. At the end of the year Cocker was ...
The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 was a music festival held between 26 and 30 August 1970 at Afton Down, an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight in England. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and often acknowledged as the largest musical event of its time, with a larger ...
Isle of Wight Festival has sparked backlash after announcing its 2024 lineup with headliners The Prodigy, Pet Shop Boys, Green Day – and no women.. The annual music festival will take place next ...
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (album Isle of Wight Festival, 29 August 1970, released 1996) [27] Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (film Isle of Wight Festival, 29 August 1970, released 1996) [27] Woodstock – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive (Woodstock, 17 August 1969, released 2019)
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