Concerts that changed the world.
Montery Pop Festival. 1967
This Three-day 1967 California-based event attended by over 200,000 people is pegged as being a catalyst for the so-called Summer of Love. A whole tour bus worth of now legendary acts made their biggest early public performances including Jimi Hendrix(he iconically set his guitar on fire), The Who, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding(who died less then a year after the historic gig). Montery set the template for music festivals to come.
Woodstock, 1969
1969 witnessed the largest rock concert of the decade as 400,000 people turned up at the village of Bethel in New York for a three-day festival of all things rock and roll. Fences and barriers soon came down as the crowds (twice the number originally expected) peacefully fought their way to catch a glimpse of the likes of Janis Joplin, The Who, Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix.Two deaths occured, one from a drug overdose and another as a teenager lay in a sleeping bag in the path of a tractor.
The Doors, 1969
Fuelled by drink and drugs, Jim Morrison's behaviour peaked the scale of outrageousness in 1969 when he was arrested for indecent exposure, lewd conduct and public intoxication following a gig in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium. The Door's frontman took the stage in a drunken state, falling over his words and mumbling incoherently before shouting insults at the thousands of fans who had forced their way in. Before being drenched in Champagne he stripped, belted out Light My Fire and was thrown into the crowd . Now that's Rock 'n Roll.
Sex Pistols, 1977
In June of 1977, Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Sid Vicious took to London's River Thames during the week of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee celebrations in what is now remembred as one of the seminal events of the punk era.The live and chaotic set was interrupted and the boat raided by the police, with most of the band and their entourage being arrested and taken into custody.The antics sparked a wave of attacks on the band and supporters by pro-royalists, and the famous singles God Save The Queen was rumoured to have been kept from the number One Uk music chart position because of rigging.
Montery Pop Festival. 1967
This Three-day 1967 California-based event attended by over 200,000 people is pegged as being a catalyst for the so-called Summer of Love. A whole tour bus worth of now legendary acts made their biggest early public performances including Jimi Hendrix(he iconically set his guitar on fire), The Who, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding(who died less then a year after the historic gig). Montery set the template for music festivals to come.
Woodstock, 1969
1969 witnessed the largest rock concert of the decade as 400,000 people turned up at the village of Bethel in New York for a three-day festival of all things rock and roll. Fences and barriers soon came down as the crowds (twice the number originally expected) peacefully fought their way to catch a glimpse of the likes of Janis Joplin, The Who, Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix.Two deaths occured, one from a drug overdose and another as a teenager lay in a sleeping bag in the path of a tractor.
The Doors, 1969
Fuelled by drink and drugs, Jim Morrison's behaviour peaked the scale of outrageousness in 1969 when he was arrested for indecent exposure, lewd conduct and public intoxication following a gig in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium. The Door's frontman took the stage in a drunken state, falling over his words and mumbling incoherently before shouting insults at the thousands of fans who had forced their way in. Before being drenched in Champagne he stripped, belted out Light My Fire and was thrown into the crowd . Now that's Rock 'n Roll.
Sex Pistols, 1977
In June of 1977, Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Sid Vicious took to London's River Thames during the week of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee celebrations in what is now remembred as one of the seminal events of the punk era.The live and chaotic set was interrupted and the boat raided by the police, with most of the band and their entourage being arrested and taken into custody.The antics sparked a wave of attacks on the band and supporters by pro-royalists, and the famous singles God Save The Queen was rumoured to have been kept from the number One Uk music chart position because of rigging.
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