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.
The special envoy of our radio station who was called Europe number 1 at the time, François Jouffa, was on the Isle of Wight. Every day, he chronicled the news of this gigantic festival on the air.
Tonight, he continues to talk to French festival-goers about free or not major music festivals0
Report from August 26, 1970. Every day, the situation becomes more tense between those who agree to pay three pounds for five days of music. It would be around 40 euros today. And those who, for ideological reasons or just to make agitprop, are clamoring for free.