The Glastonbury Festival has been with us for over four decades, and is now as ubiquitous and intrinsic a part of the British Summer as the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis tournament. The Isle of Wight Festival, another defining music event held in 1968, 1969 and 1970 was successfully revived in 2002. The colossal Woodstock Music & Art Fair of 1969 defined the hippie generation, and has been commemorated at regular intervals, with another major anniversary looming next year. None of these gatherings would have happened without the Monterey International Pop Festival, a three-day event held in California in June 1967. It featured break-out performances by Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, The Who and Jimi Hendrix. It presented several acts – Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Jefferson Airplane and Ravi Shankar as well as The Who, Joplin and Hendrix – who also appeared at Woodstock. It was filmed by the acclaimed documentary maker D.A. Pennebaker, and the resulting Monterey Pop, released in US cinemas in December 1968, helped to convince investors to bankroll Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld’s Woodstock.
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