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Black Sabbath 1971. Albert Hall. 60p.
Led Zep. 1971 Wembley. All dayer with several support bands and circus acts in between.75p .
LZ. 1975. Earls Court. £2.50.
It's all in the attitude you project.
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There were other things, which were very different then as well. A friend of mine asked me (2 days before the Festival) if I wanted to go with him, as he had a spare seat in his car. We simply turned up, as most did, and bought our tickets at the Entrance to the the site. Then went to the camp site, and easily picked a spot for our tents.
The sky was blue and the sun shone. Easy to find a spot on the grass and lie out at most 20 yards from the Stage. This meant you had a reasonable view because there was just the stage - no big screens to watch. So what did we have to put up with on Saturday? Early on, a good, but unknown to most, group - Deep Purple, followed by Marc Bolan (in Tyranosaurus Rex guise), Ritchie Havens, Jeff Beck Group, Ten Years After, The Nice, Ginger Baker playing drum duets(??) with Phil Seaman - fortunately, after a couple of numbers, he brought on a guest guitarist - some bloke called Eric Clapton. The headline act was Arthur Brown, who rather pissed people off by turning up an hour and a quarter late, so being lowered from a helicopter was greeted with relief rather than applause.
By no means a heavy rock line up despite Lizzy and Aerosmith.
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Parents were not not so pleased as a 14 yr old me didn’t ask them in advance, I left them a note to tell them where I was and when I would be back.
That was was punishment for them not letting me go see Rush in 83 at NEC someone mentioned earlier for £3. Still mention that every xmas to mum as one of the greatest disappointments of my life .