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.
Deborah Croker
By Deborah Croker
Published 14th Nov 2020, 12:38 BST
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.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.
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.

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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