Glastonbury Music Festival, June 26 – 30

This five-day festival in Somerset is dedicated to contemporary performing arts, from music to theater to dance to cabaret to everything in between and grows bigger and better each year.

The first Festival was held on the day after Jimi Hendrix died, over a two day period and before long “word had got around”. It was the Blues festival at the Bath & West Showground that had inspired Michael Eavis to begin a festival of his own although on a smaller scale.

Acts to appear included: Marc Bolan, Keith Christmas, Stackridge, Al Stewart, Quintessence

Attendance: 1,500.

Price: £1 including free milk from the farm.