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.
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