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, a year after Woodstock, the last great hippie gathering.
The special envoy of our radio station, which 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.
And tonight, it's a bit of disillusionment. Those who wanted to stir up trouble at this festival, those who did not want to pay and engaged in acts of violence and vandalism, won a bitter double victory. The festival was well and truly ruined. And once the free admission was obtained the penultimate evening, many of them left.