Wednesday 29 January 2014

Free - Isle Of Wight 1969

Colour home movie of the August 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, showing Free, Marsha Hunt, The Who landing by helicopter, and the arena the day after.

This footage comes courtesy of Jon Blake who says, “This was filmed by my dad, the electrical contractor for the festival - he died on the 40th anniversary of the event.”

Its short but very sweet and the only footage I've ever seen from Free's brief three song performance. In the fourteen minutes they were given they played 'The Hunter', 'Trouble On Double Time' and 'Songs Of Yesterday'. Check out Paul Rodgers' awesome pink pants!

Jon also has a site about the festival and a novel he's written about it. You can find that at
http://www.dylan69.com