1971 (20th - 24th June) --- The Festival moved to the time of the Summer Solstice and was known as the "Glastonbury Fair". It had been planned by Andrew Kerr and Arabella Churchill who felt all other festivals at the time were over commercialised. It was paid for by the few who supported the ideal so the entrance was free and took a medieval tradition of music, dance, poetry, theatre, lights and spontaneous entertainment. It was in this year that the first "pyramid" stage was constructed out of scaffolding and expanded metal covered with plastic sheeting, built on a site above the Glastonbury-Stonehenge ley line. The musicians who performed recorded a now very rare album. The Festival is also captured "a la Woodstock" by a 1972 film crew that included Nick Roeg and David Puttnam. This film was called "Glastonbury Fayre".
Bands playing that year included Hawkwind, Traffic, Melanie, David Bowie, Joan Baez, Fairport Convention, Quintessence, Terry Feid, Family, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come and Daevid Allan & Gong.
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Thanks for this. It's great to see Glastonbury when it was sensible (sort of), rather than the corporate crap fest it's turned into these days.
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