Stonehenge Free Festival
Stonehenge Free Festival was the name of a music festival held in England from 1972 to 1984 . It was held outdoors between the stones of Stonehenge every June around the 21st. The Stonehenge Free Festival was a celebration of numerous alternative cultures and musical styles . Among the participating bands were Jimmy Page , Hawkwind , Roy Harper , Ozric Tentacles , Doctor and the Medics , Gong , Bad Manners , Crass , Dexys Midnight Runners , Thompson Twins , Wishbone Ash , Benjamin Zephaniah , Cardiacs and many more who performed on stage from Stonehenge performed for free.
history
The Stonehenge Free Festival became one of the premier free music festivals after the Windsor Free Festival was banned in August 1974 and the People's Free Festival was no longer found after 1975 . In 1981 it was considered The best free festival worldwide and in June 1984 it reached a record 65,000 visitors. Due to its popularity, some of the bands like interrupted Thompson Twins and Hawkwind their tour to be able to occur only at the festival.
literature
- Christiana Breinl: Free Tekno: History of a Counterculture , LIT Verlag, Münster 2012
