The Last Great Event: with Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison - Couverture souple

Foulk, Ray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916866204 ISBN 13 : 9781916866201

Editeur : Medina Publishing Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Expanded edition, featuring a new chapter and photographs on the Festival’s modern revival under John Giddings. 

The Isle of Wight Festival in 1969 famously stole Bob Dylan from Woodstock’ and set the benchmark for all rock and pop festivals in the UK. Its 1970 follow-up became one of the most iconic music gatherings of all time, with an unforgettable line-up including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, The Doors, Joan Baez and many more. Widely reported to have drawn 600,000 people―five times the Island’s population―it was Britain’s own Woodstock, and Hendrix’s last major performance before his death just 17 days later. 

Joint organiser Ray Foulk gives a unique insider’s account of the extraordinary highs and the bitter conflicts surrounding the event, from local hostility to counterculture clashes. Controversial, chaotic, and unforgettable, the 1970 festival has been named The Last Great Event. 

This expanded edition not only revisits those legendary days but also brings the story into the present, with a brand-new chapter and rare photographs covering the Festival’s rebirth under John Giddings from 2002. It explores how the event was successfully revived for a new generation, cementing the Isle of Wight Festival’s reputation as one of the world’s great live music experiences. 

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RAY FOULK, now based in Oxford, has fostered many passions since his early days as a promoter. After the Isle of Wight Festivals and stadium events in London, he and his brothers were head-hunted by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation to help plan the leisure content of their new city. Through this, Ray brought the scientist and designer Buckminster Fuller to the project, embraced his environmentalism, and eventually trained as an architect himself at the University of Cambridge. Combining design, education and promotion he spent much of the nineties and noughties as an environmental campaigner, and led the ambitious in-schools project, Blue Planet Day, rekindling the satisfaction and more that the Festivals had brought to his youth. From his home in Oxford, the last few years have been dominated by environmental architecture and writing.

CAROLINE FOULK has worked with her father, Ray, for many years, researching, writing, and co-promoting the in-schools project, Blue Planet Day. Together they have recently completed a screenplay for the cinema about the invention of modern art. Caroline trained and worked as a teacher and lives in Oxford with her husband and three children

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Medina Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916866204
• ISBN 13: 9781916866201
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible