Hollywood Music Festival
| Hollywood Music Festival | |
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| Genre | Rock and folk, including hard rock and psychedelic rock styles |
| Dates | 23 and 24 May 1970 |
| Location(s) | near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England |
| Years active | 1970 |
| Founded by | Onista Ltd |
The Hollywood Music Festival was held at
History
This was the first of the major festivals held in the summer of 1970 and part of the festival was to have been filmed by the BBC. Andrew Burgoyne of Burgoyne Film and Audio Services also filmed and recorded audio of some of the festival. Film crews can be seen on 8 mm footage of bands taken by fans at the festival on several occasions, notably during Quintessence and the Dead's performances. A DVD and CD set was issued in 2010, featuring archive material from the Grateful Dead's set, and one number each from Free, Family, Screaming Lord Sutch, and Radha Krishna Temple along with a biographical booklet of the event.
Rumours circulated in the music papers about the supergroup that
The festival has generally tended to be eclipsed by the larger, better known festivals of 1970 such as the
Across the road from the festival site is Highway Farm, where the bands waited until they were required. In December 1970, Free released an album called Highway.
See also
- List of historic rock festivals
References
- ^ [1] Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] [dead link]
- ^ "John Abberley | Hollywood Music Festival in Madeley | Stoke & Staffordshire | Stoke Sentinel". Thisisstaffordshire.co.uk. 2009-06-13. Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- ^ "Steve Took's Shagrat". Shagrat Records. Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- ^ "Festival poster". Ukrockfestivals.com. Retrieved 2014-06-30.