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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Isle of Wight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Isle of Wight became an island sometime after the end of the last Ice Age when post-glacial rebound caused the land level to sink, the Solent flooding and separating the island from the mainland.
After the Roman era the Isle of Wight was settled by the Jutes, a Germanic tribe, in the early stages of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
The Jutes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Isle_of_Wight   (3010 words)

  
 Jimi Hendrix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On January 4, 1968, Hendrix was jailed by Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room in a drunken rage.
In August he gave his last performance in the United Kingdom, at the Isle of Wight Festival with Mitchell and Cox.
The burnt and broken parts of the Stratocaster he destroyed at the 1968 Miami Pop Festival were given to Frank Zappa, who later rebuilt it and played it extensively during the 1970s and 1980s.
jimi-hendrix.iqnaut.net   (4101 words)

  
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Along with ``Going Up the Country,'' the band's biggest hit was ``On the Road Again'' in 1968.
Canned Heat was notable for performing at three of rock 'n' roll's most famous festivals - the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, Woodstock in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in England in 1970.
In a 1995 interview, another Canned Heat guitarist, Junior Watson, described Vestine's trademark angry, buzzing guitar sound as ``blues with that kind of obnoxious rock and roll attitude.'' Canned Heat never recovered as a creative unit after Wilson's death from a drug overdose in 1970.
www.mnblues.com /memorial/vestine.html   (402 words)

  
 The Pink Floyd Archives Library
Includes numerous photos of both the performers, and the hall itself, with pictures of the light shows, photos from Newport, Woodstock, Isle of Wight, and Tommy performed live.
Synopsis: A documentary of the festivals held at the Isle of Wight in 1968-1970.
Includes background information, a review of each band that played, and the information that David Gilmour attended the festival on August 31, 1970, and was pulled in from the crowd to help mix Jimi Hendrix's sound.
rac.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk /PFbooks/BooksLR.htm   (3470 words)

  
 henry vestine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Henry Vestine died at the age of 52, while touring, in the neighbourhood of Paris, France.
(1968, 2lp, usa, united artists) - feat.henry vestine
canned heat: live at the turku rock festival finland (20)
www.united-mutations.com /v/henry_vestine.htm   (695 words)

  
 Procol Harum history in print   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A pile of papers I was going through...
1968 Much pleasure, some pain and a can of paraffin
1971 Gary Brooker talks to NME about line-up changes, festivals, venues...
www.procolharum.com /history.htm   (2438 words)

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