A new edition of Isle of Wight Festival founder Ray Foulk’s\u00a0book has hit the shelves, telling untold tales of the landmark event in 1970.<\/p>\n
The Last Great Event, written by Ray and his daughter Caroline, marks 55 years since a crowd of 600,000 came to the Island to attend the historic event, and witness Jimi Hendrix’s final UK performance.<\/p>\n
The book’s new edition, published by Medina Publishing, features a new chapter from John Giddings on the festival’s revival.<\/p>\n
The 1970 event, however, was not without its challenges.<\/p>\n
The Foulk brothers, who organised the festival, faced significant political resistance from local groups and counterculture militants demanding a free festival.<\/p>\n
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They were confronted with sabotage attempts, death threats, and ideological confrontations.<\/p>\n
The book, released in a new paperback edition, offers a full account of these events, drawing on key texts from all sides of the divide.<\/p>\n
The festival remains one of the most controversial and mythologised in music history.<\/p>\n
The book also features a collection of photography from the Isle of Wight Festival.<\/p>\n
The Last Great Event is available from Medina Bookshop on High Street, Cowes for \u00a317.95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new edition of Isle of Wight Festival founder Ray Foulk’s\u00a0book has hit the shelves, telling untold tales…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,20731,28058,97627,97629,97628,97626,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-253790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-isle-of-wight-festival","11":"tag-jimi-hendrix","12":"tag-john-giddings","13":"tag-medina-publishing","14":"tag-new-edition","15":"tag-ray-foulk","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}