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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 ...
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 ...
Message to Love is a feature documentary film of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.Directed and produced by Murray Lerner, the film includes performances by popular rock acts, such as Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and the Doors, as well as folk and jazz artists, such as Joni Mitchell and Miles Davis.
In 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #10. [2] It was the first record issued with a different playing speed on each side: a three-minute edit at 45 rpm, and a nearly eight-minute live version at 33 rpm.
These songs were performed at the concert and were not featured on the original video release of the concert. "Naked Eye" had previously been released as part of Message to Love, a DVD released in 1997 as a compilation of songs performed at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 that was also directed by Murray Lerner.
Notable features included events like the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, showcasing performers such as Roger Daltrey, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Donovan, and John Sebastian; alongside striking images of naked audience members. Other issues boasted similar high-quality spreads capturing the zeitgeist.
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The song helped secure them a performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, where they played to an audience of 600,000 people. [2] In the early 1970s they became one of the best-selling British blues rock [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] groups; by the time they disbanded, they had sold more than 20 million records worldwide and had played in more than 700 ...