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A Brief History of Music Festivals

Chris Hawkins and The Charlatans' Tim Burgess explore the history of the music festival, featuring performances from Chuck Berry, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Radiohead.

A Brief History Of Music Festivals.

Chris Hawkins and Charlatans frontman, Tim Burgess, (briefly) explore the history of music festivals.

The programme begins with the legendary Chuck Berry at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. It includes Dylan going electric, Richie Havens at Woodstock and Jimi Hendrix playing the biggest music festival of all time, The Isle of White Festival in 1970.

With performances by Nirvana, Radiohead and Pulp; the show also includes Tim Burgess telling his own tales of festival life.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 23 Jun 2017 06:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Chuck Berry

    Sweet Little Sixteen (Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1958)

  • Bob Dylan

    Maggie's Farm (Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965)

  • Big Brother & the Holding Company

    Road Block (The Monterey International Pop Festival 1967)

  • Richie Havens

    Freedom (Live at Woodstock)

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Purple Haze (Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)

  • Nirvana

    Dumb (Live At Reading)

  • Pulp

    Sorted For E's And Wizz (Glastonbury 1995)

  • Radiohead

    Paranoid Android (Glastonbury Live '97)

  • The Charlatans

    One To Another (Live at V98)

  • David Bowie

    'Heroes' (Glastonbury, 2000)

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Jun 2017 06:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

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