In 1970, a legendary music festival was held on the Isle of Wight, in the south of the United Kingdom. Every day, Europe 1 offers you an archive report produced around what was, one year after Woodstock, the last great hippie gathering.
Every evening we will take advantage of the exceptional archives of Europe 1. François Jouffa, the special envoy of our radio station, who was called at the time "Europe number 1" was on the Isle of Wight. Every day, he chronicled the news of this gigantic festival on the air.
First excerpt, the fight which opposed certain inhabitants of this peaceful island of 100,000 inhabitants, who did not want a surge of hippies on their land and the organizers of this 3rd edition who finally won their case. Report from August 25, 1969.
Every evening, we will plunge into the past thanks to these nuggets unearthed by the documentation service of Europe 1 around Sylvaine Denis.