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When the World Came to the Isle of Wight - Volume One: Stealing Dylan from Woodstock (Hardcover)
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When the World Came to the Isle of Wight - Volume One: Stealing Dylan from Woodstock (Hardcover)
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For a time, the Isle of Wight Festivals transformed a sleepy
English island into the rock'n'roll capital of the world. From
promoting a one-nighter in 1968, to raise funds for a local
swimming pool, the young Foulk brothers were able to out-perform
Woodstock, by signing the world-exclusive appearance of rock's poet
laureate, Bob Dylan. The de facto leader of the counterculture had
been hidden away in the artist-town of Woodstock, rarely seen after
a motor cycle accident three years earlier. He turned his back on
the eponymous festival, put there to persuade him to come out and
play, but Dylan left for Europe on the day their event began. For
the Foulk brothers - lacking experience, resources and time - the
coup and ensuing public response was almost overwhelming, but with
audacious bravado and steely determination they delivered the most
awaited event of the era. Devotees from hippies to celebrities
flocked to the Island from mainland Britain, Europe, the Americas
and as far away as Australia. As well as changing the lives of Ray
and his brothers the phenomenon played its part in a highly
transformative period for Bob Dylan, in which the Isle of Wight
remained his one and only full concert appearance in
seven-and-a-half years.
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