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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/
opinion/the-greatest-music-festival-in-history.html
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2014/jun/14/
bonnaroo-festival-kanye-skrillex-fans-in-pictures
UK > festivals >
Glastonbury UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/glastonbury
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/27/
brexit-glastonbury-headliner-music-festival-restore-faith-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/26/
glastonbury-memories-dorian-lynksey-festival-1994-2016
http://www.theguardian.com/music/glastonbury-2015
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/28/
what-glastonbury-really-means-festival-eva-wiseman
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/28/
glastonbury-festival-florence-and-the-machine-la-roux-wi
http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2015/jun/26/
glastonbury-naked-video-history-1970-2015-video
https://www.theguardian.com/music/glastonbury-2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/30/
glastonbury-2013-prince-harry-eavis-rolling-stones
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jun/13/
julien-temple-dark-side-of-glastonbury
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/18/
glastonbury-radical-roots-michael-eavis
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/music_and_mud_glastonbury_fest.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2010/jun/04/
glastonbury-at-40-anniversary
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jan/30/
musicnews.music
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/mar/26/1
https://www.theguardian.com/music/glastonbury2005
The original Isle of
Wight festivals – in pictures UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2015/jun/12/
the-original-isle-of-wight-festivals-in-pictures
festival > Saturday,
December 6, 1969 > USA > California > Altamont
the Rolling Stones
and the Grateful Dead
organized an
impromptu concert
at Altamont Speedway,
in the golden hills
of Northern
California’s East Bay,
that drew an
estimated 300,000 people.
Four people died,
including a man who
was killed
by members of the
Hells Angels
who had been hired
to provide “security”
for the event.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/
lens/altamont-1969-bill-owens.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/
lens/altamont-1969-bill-owens.html
USA > Woodstock
15-18 August 1969 UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2009/jul/30/
woodstock-unseen
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/
arts/music/elliot-tiber-who-with-a-permit-unleashed-woodstock-and-himself-dies-at-81.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2016/jul/11/
woodstock-in-pictures
USA > Monterey
International Pop Festival USA
Monterey County Fair
Grounds in Monterey, Calif. - 16 to June
18, 1967
https://www.npr.org/2017/06/15/
532978213/a-look-back-at-monterey-pop-50-years-later
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/
opinion/the-greatest-music-festival-in-history.html
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Feelings, Emotions,
Human relationships
June 21 1977
Pop bands and pot takers
at Stonehenge
From The Guardian archive
June 21 1977
The Guardian
The summer solstice at Stonehenge is now celebrated by a grand
company of policemen, trespassers, pot takers, coach drivers, pop bands, barking
dogs and distraught farmers, none of whom, apparently, knows what is truly going
on.
This year's first pop festival followers evidently broke into a National Trust
field, half a mile from the stones, on Friday night. By yesterday there were
well over a thousand, accommodated mostly in the now familiar tents, teepees and
makeshift shelters, but occasionally in brand new polythene wigwams.
The spectacle is now a kind of ramshackle ritual. The coaches on the way to the
official car park opposite the stones pause so that the passengers can gaze at
the 'hippies.' Policemen move from control point to National Trust field. The
fans say 'yeah man,' — it sounds as old-fashioned now as 'yes sirree' — and the
wood smoke cuts the pure air of Salisbury Plain like the scent of burnt chips.
'There's a lot of power round here, man,' one follower volunteers, indicating
leylines and ancient barrows. One group tries to harness some of it by sitting
silently, eyes closed, to encourage the sun to shine. The old symbols of alchemy
and the zodiac flutter on flags and tent flaps, but the sky stays heavy. A kind
of rump parliament meets squatting on an ancient barrow, and decides against
permitting a hot dog stand. It also passes a resolution against cutting down the
farmers' trees for kindling. 'It's like cutting somebody off at the knees,' one
voice proclaimed, transforming wilful damage into ecological immorality in a
sentence.
Cyclostyled handouts are issued from time to time, from sources as mysterious as
the stones. 'Don't take any drugs off the site,' one says. There is a threat
that the Sex Pistols may come to perform, but no one knows when or why. The road
outside is thick with the law, but what is to be done?
Beside the entrance to the field, a policeman notes the registration numbers of
cars. A local milk roundsman who sold almost one thousand bottles before lunch
says: 'They let the tradesmen in.' Union Jacks, a defiant innovation if ever
there was one, fly high above the tents, among the soaring kites and the
woodsmoke. There is much tramping about, sitting and strumming and waiting for
the dawn.
'I mean, it's the way we live now, isn't it?' the milkman says. 'It's anarchy in
action, man,' one of his customers says. Down the road the tourists from Europe
and beyond retire to await the dawn between clean sheets.
Dennis Johnson
Pop bands and pot
takers at Stonehenge,
G,
21.6.1977,
p. 36,
republished 21.6.2007;
http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2007/06/21/pages/ber36.shtml
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