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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 ...
Live at Leeds (album containing entire Leeds, 14 February 1970 show, released 1970) [27] Live at Hull (Hull, 15 February 1970, released 2012) [27] 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 ...
The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival which takes place annually in Newport on the Isle of Wight, England. [1] It was originally a counterculture event held from 1968 to 1970. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
26–31 August – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 begins on East Afton Farm. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull. [38]
The Isle of Wight Festival was a large rock festival near Afton Down, West Wight, in August 1970, following two smaller concerts in 1968 and 1969. The 1970 show was one of the last public performances by Jimi Hendrix and attracted somewhere between 600,000 and 700,000 attendees. [ 76 ]
0–9. Isle of Wight Festival 1969; Isle of Wight Festival 1970; Rock Island 2002; Isle of Wight Festival 2003; Isle of Wight Festival 2004; Isle of Wight Festival 2005
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival is a double live album by The Who, recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival on 29 August 1970, and released in 1996. A DVD of the concert was also released for the first time in 1996.
During the festival there were messages for Wally being read out over the sound system, and a Wally chant developed over the weekend. Evidence suggests that this was a continuation of the same behaviour at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, [4] also see Wally Hope. While it started at the IoW festival the year before it had developed at Weeley ...