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The Isle of Wight Pop Festival
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• Jan. 16, 2025, 10:27 PM ET (BBC)
More than a year after Woodstock, the third Isle of Wight Pop Festival was held August 26–31, 1970, on the island of the same name off the coast of southern England. The previous year’s festival had attracted about 200,000 people, most of them drawn by the opportunity to see and hear Bob Dylan, whose performances were still sporadic in the wake of his 1966 motorcycle accident. In 1970 some 600,000 people showed up, though only about 50,000 bought tickets, and many encamped on the hill nicknamed “Desolation Row” overlooking the fenced-in grounds, which one gate-crasher compared to “a psychedelic concentration ...(100 of 259 words)