Hollywood Music Festival
1970 English rock music festival
Keele · Staffordshire · United Kingdom
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- Founded
- 1970
📍 Where?
- Town
- Keele
- Region
- Staffordshire
- Country
- United Kingdom
- How precise?
- the festival's own coordinate
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- Status
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📖 Excerpt from the Wikipedia article
The Hollywood Music Festival was held at Leycett in an area called Hollywood on the grounds of Ted Askey's Lower (pig) Farm at Finney Green, between Silverdale and Leycett, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on 23 and 24 May 1970. It was notable for the first performance of Grateful Dead in the UK and also for the performance of Jose Feliciano and Mungo Jerry, and featured high-profile bands such as Free, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Colosseum, Family, Black Sabbath and Traffic. The company responsible for the festival was Onista Ltd, who promptly went bankrupt and were unable to pay festival staff. Onista was an offshoot of Eliot Cohen's Red Bus company, with Ellis Elias and Elliot Cohen as the promoters. It was estimated to have been attended by about 45,000 people.
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