Isle of Wight Festival the world, with estimates of over 600,000, surpassing the attendance at Woodstock. Included in the line-up of over fifty performers were Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Doors, The Who, Lighthouse, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, Melanie, Donovan, Gilberto Gil, Free, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull, Taste and Tiny Tim. The unexpectedly high attendance levels led, in 1971, to Parliament adding a section to the Isle of Wight County Council Act 1971 preventing overnight open-air gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the island without a special licence from the
Isle of Wight Festival 2004 Friday, the day began at 5pm. <br>The Charlatans returned from Rock Island 2002. They would play again in 2009. In 2005 the event was released on DVD. However this only included headline performances from Stereophonics, and not from The Who or David Bowie. During 2005, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel released their entire performance at the festival on DVD, titled "Live at the Isle of Wight Festival". In 2017 The Who released their performance on 2 cd and dvd/blu-ray on the Eagle Rock Entertainment label. Isle of Wight Festival 2004 The Isle of Wight Festival 2004 was the third revived