Isle of Wight Festival: So good even Beatles turned up to watch | Nostalgia

By Deborah Croker

Retro Specialist

Published 14th Nov 2020, 12:38 BST

The Isle of Wight Festival was originally a counterculture event held from 1968 to 1970.

The 1970 bash was the largest of the three and the Guinness Book of Records put the attendance at between 600,000 and 700,000.

John Lennon, centre, George Harrison, left, and his wife, model, photographer and author, Pattie Boyd, and Ringo Starr, front, in the crowd at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival. Picture: William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

placeholder image — John Lennon, centre, George Harrison, left, and his wife, model, photographer and author, Pattie Boyd, and Ringo Starr, front, in the crowd at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival. Picture: William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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