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
Live Isle of Wight '70 includes walkie-talkie interference from security personnel feeding through the sound equipment. All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted. http://www.indepthmedia.co/ Live Isle of Wight '70 Live Isle of Wight '70 is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix released in 1991. The album captures a selection of songs from Hendrix's last U.K. live performance at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 31, 1970, three weeks before his death. The complete performance appeared on the 2002 release "". The set list for the concert contained songs from the original Experience albums, as well as new songs written around