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Party at Worthy Farm
Today marks the anniversary of the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, first held on this day in 1970 on Michael Eavis’s family farm in Pilton, Somerset. Along with the utopian idealism of the time came an invention of the “free” music festival, a social movement based on collaboration and responsibility for one’s own expectations. [...]
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Tagged 1970's, hippies, Music, psychedelic, The Kinks, Tyrannosaurus Rex
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The Last Unicorn
The 45th anniversary of Tyrannosaurus Rex’s third album, Unicorn, might not seem like an auspicious anniversary, but, for a number of reasons you better believe it is. Tyrannosaurus Rex was the acoustic duo of Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took — who pulled his stage moniker from the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. [...]
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Tagged John Peel, Marc Bolan, Steve Peregrin Took, T. Rex, Tony Visconti, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Unicorn
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