The Glastonbury Festival is once again being held at Michael Eavis’s dairy farm at Pilton, just outside the Somerset town. The venues of some other famous festivals:
— Monterey: the festival most associated with the 1967 ‘Summer of Love’ was held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, previously used for jazz festivals.
— Woodstock: the 1969 festival was to have been held on an industrial park, but the local council placed a restriction limiting attendance to 5,000, so it moved to a dairy farm owned by Max Yasgur. He was paid $50,000 but was barred from the local shop.
— Isle of Wight: the third Isle of Wight festival became the largest festival ever staged, with 600,000 attending. The site, East Afton Farm, was chosen by the local council against the wishes of the organisers, who feared correctly that it would attract people trying to avoid paying for a ticket.
Leaders and followers
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Moors murderer Ian Brady appeared before a tribunal arguing that he should be transferred from secure psychiatric hospital to prison. Last year 48,600 people were detained under the Mental Health Act. These were the main reasons:
Medical referral for assessment
20,900
Medical referral for treatment
7,700
Referral by magistrates’ court or crown court for report
2,130
Admitted to psychiatric unit upon conviction
981
Transfer from prison under direction of secretary of state
468
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Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to it’s true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images… So wrote Frank O’Hara
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