The 1970 Isle of Wight Pop Festival

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Uploaded by on Mar 21, 2010

A Slideshow i've made up from some old photos found on the internet taken at the 1970 Isle of Wight Pop Festival

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  • my da was there said the kids made it a shambles .

  • @Raffaelecass Ha ha! That must have been wild!

  • Photo w/ VW van was taken in Interlaken Switzerland July 1970...got to Amsterdam in time for the riots then the Isle of Wight. Great summer...

  • @smellmiller Family one of the best.

  • I was 17 and this was my 1st and best ever festival , we hitched from Leicester to Southampton got the ferry across to Ryde where we were herded like cattle onto coaches with blacked out windows...wow the memories are flooding back , we slept (occasionally) under plastic sheeting and couldn't believe the bands we were seeing , Hendrix, The Who , Free , Ten Years After , The Doors and on & on & on and not forgetting my local band Family

  • Went with a guy named John Hope. Fantastic weekend. Slept in a paper sack (Honest). £3 for the weekend. Amazing bands, weather & people. Life sort of changed after that experience....... I actually found a photograph of myself in the crowd on a festival archive site & am on the DVD Message to Love, for a couple of secs, which was a brilliant documentary giving some insight into how the festival was staged on a wing and a prayer & how close it was to a total, besides financial, disaster.

  • @Raffaelecass did you manage to see the Doors live?

  • @thechamp200100 did you watch the Doors?

  • Thanks for this man - really captures the time. Great choice of music. I was there and life was never the same afterwards.

  • We had to go after work on the Friday. Must have arrived about 10.pm. Went straight up the Hill. Could not see the point of moving. Great view and, space. Don't remember it all. I know we went to the beach a lot. Went back in 2009, just to what it looked like without 600,000 people there. It's a masive flat plain over looked by Afton Down ( the hill ). Ask anyone who lives there from 18 to 80 years old. They all know where the last great festival was held. Oh! and the Who were awesome.

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