page_title: Isle of Wight
section_title: Music
hierarchical_section_title: Isle of Wight / Music
caption_attribution_description: English: Isle of Wight Festival 1970. Français&#160;: Festival de l'île de Wight 1970. Robert posey dans la défonce. YO.
context_page_description: The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England. It is in the English Channel, between two and five miles off the coast of Hampshire, separated by the Solent. The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times, and is known for its mild climate, coastal scenery, and verdant landscape of fields, downland and chines. The island is designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
  The island has been home to the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Alfred, Lord Tennyson and to Queen Victoria, who built her much-loved summer residence and final home Osborne House at East Cowes. It has a maritime and industrial tradition including boat-building, sail-making, the manufacture of flying boats, the hovercraft, and Britain's space rockets. The island hosts annual music festivals including the Isle of Wight Festival, which in 1970 was the largest rock music event ever held. It has well-conserved wildlife and some of the richest cliffs and quarries for dinosaur fossils in Europe.
  The isle was owned by a Norman family until 1293 and was earlier a kingdom in its own right, Wihtwara.
context_section_description: The island is home to the Isle of Wight Festival and until 2016, Bestival before it was relocated to Lulworth Estate in Dorset. In 1970, the festival was headlined by Jimi Hendrix attracting an audience of 600,000, some six times the local population at the time. It is the home of the bands The Bees, Trixie's Big Red Motorbike and Level 42.
caption: The crowd at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is believed to have been 600,000.
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