![]() ![]() Of all the UK festivals Stonehenge "Free Festival'' is perhaps the greatest and perhaps the most well known. But, in the festival game, fame is irrelevant. There were, of course, many other bands who did not become well known. Jethro Tull, Arthur Brown, Hawkwind, The Pink Fairies, The Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Floyd and Gong are just a few of the many bands who took some of their first steps away from obscurity on to the Live festival stage. Since those euphoric days of the mid '60s, many festivals have come and gone, and a whole plethora of great UK rock bands have become known to the public via the festival medium. The first major festival, and the one that really started it all, was Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967, an event that managed to stay alive and kicking up until its brutal destruction by "the authorities'' in the early '70s. ![]() The UK Festival scene, if it can be called such, has a long and varied history that has developed in tandem with some of the best of UK underground rock bands. ![]()
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