This feature-length documentary, first shown on Sky Arts, explores the evolution of the festival through interviews with the pioneers who staged the original events, including Michael Lang (Woodstock), Michael Eavis (Glastonbury), Andrew Kerr (Glastonbury '71), Freddy Bannister (Bath and Knebworth), Ray Foulk (Isle of Wight), George Wein (Newport) and Paul Tollett (Coachella), plus a few of the musicians who performed at them - Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood, Ian Anderson, Nick Mason, Al Stewart, Bob Geldof and Noel Gallagher
Acting
Pete Townshend's gloriously unfiltered storytelling.
Direction
Smartly lets legends talk without over-producing.
Production
Rare archival footage that actually feels alive.
Director
Roger Penny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andrew Kerr organized Glastonbury '71 in just six months with zero festival experience, inspired purely by a cosmic alignment theory.
The film captures a dying breed: founders who built empires before corporate sponsorships sanitized the experience. Most have since passed.
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