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