1969 IOW festival - unique home movie

Colour home movie of 1969 Isle of Wight festival, showing Free, Marsha Hunt, the Who landing by helicopter, and the arena the day after. Posted by Jon Blake, author of 69ers, the novel of the festival - see iow69.wordpress.com .

[@Walesktf]

Great clip of FREE. Thanks for posting this

[@petermcfarlane3492]

I am the guy at 0.8 with folded arms looking bemused. Sorry but I have little recollection of that blessed weekend but it is coming up for 50 years ago and many summers have passed. The one strong memory is The Band playing interminably and Dylan coming on ( at last ) for what seemed about 40 mins. Apart form that everything has been erased. I was 19 years old and had no sense of history. Thank goodness these small scraps of film survive. But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

[@KKTR3]

Made me smile so much and made me laugh it just made my day
Thank you

[@guyportelli492]

Great footage of 69, I have just uploaded on RUclips 'Isle of Wight Festival sculpture' collecting the hand prints of musicians who performed 1968-1970

[@oz2267]

Wonderful, cheers mate

[@jonblake4120]

Ignore that website address, now defunct - the book can now be found at www.iow69.wordpress.com.