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Saturday, June 28, 2025

A.I. oh, now I get it! . . . . . ISLE OF WIGHT 1969/1970

 I was there but my memory is not what it was and I recall crashing a car down a hill (brakes failing!) being woken up by truncheons (on the feet to be fair!😳 ) and waking up in a shooting gallery but that’s a whole OTHER story  . . . . . . . . in my head I thought it looked like this!🤯

Rare Photos of the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival Brought to Life 😎😉🤔💜

check the date on the banner above the stage people! the 3rd festival was in 1970!

2 comments:

Dell said...

Thanks for sharing this amusing reminder of how Festivals used to be 1969/1970 (Although I was only at he 1970 gig, I don't recall Joe Cocker playing at either..)

Andy Swapp said...

Always welcome Dell! Glad you enjoyed this and I too can recall very little (of anything after a while)Isle of Wight, first Glastos (?!), Reading (?!), Blind Faith Hyde Park, The Who @ the Oval, CSNY The Band, Mitchell + at Wembley . . . Dylan at The Roundhouse (2009?) and on and on it goes and the music goes round and round and it comes out here!