WOOTTON, Isle of Wight, UK, 31 August 1969
Isle Of Wight Festival Of Music
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.
It is located in the English Channel, about 2 miles (3.2 km) off the coast of Hampshire.
The 1969 Isle of Wight Festival was held on 29-31 August 1969 in the village of Wootton, on the Isle of Wight. The festival attracted an audience of approximately 150,000 to see acts including Bob Dylan, The Band, The Who, Free, Joe Cocker, the Bonzo Dog Band and The Moody Blues. It was the second of three music festivals held on the island between 1968 and 1970. Organised by Ronnie and Ray Foulk's Fiery Creations, it became a legendary event, largely owing to the participation of Dylan, who had spent the previous three years in semi-retirement.
See some documents below:
List of ticket sellers and form. (NME cutting)
The programme, front and back cover:
36 pages plus cover, thick paper, 4 pages on Bob Dylan.
Handbill, front and back
Book of 25 Season tickets (see below)
Ticket, front and back
Below: unofficial SOUVENIR BROCHURE, pre-festival production issue; centre page double spread has stock shot of Bob Dylan with message that he is to come out of obscurity and fly to England to appear at the festival.
This publication is notable for what might have been: Pink Floyd are incorrectly listed as playing, so are The Soft Machine, John Surman and Chicken Shack. 12 pages (6.5"x 9"). Thank you to Wil Gielen for the information.
Below: "THE MUSIC FESTIVAL 69, UK, 28-page 10" x 8" souvenir published by a local Portsmouth newspaper after the event. Features Bob Dylan on the front cover with an article titled 'Dylan & The Press', along with black & white photographs of many the other acts including The Who, Free, Joe Cocker, the Bonzo Dog Band, the Moody Blues and more. Also contains pictures of other celebrities including Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, John & Yoko, Ringo Starr, Jane Fonda and others in the VIP area, plus people in the crowd". Image and information eu.rarevinyl.com.
Through the years, the concert has been widely bootlegged though never as a complete recording; in 1983, Belle Island Records released a 10" 9-song vinyl EP called GWW Belle Isle. It included a 15-page booklet with clipings about the concert: [0525]
In 2013, the complete recording of Dylan's performance was released on the Deluxe Edition of THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL.10: ANOTHER SELF PORTRAIT (1969–1971). The rather short set list was:
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