Editing Glastonbury Festival (section)

=== 1971 ===
The "Glastonbury Fair" of 1971<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/history/history-1971/ |title=Glastonbury Festival – 1971 |first=Pretty Good |last=Digital |website=Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk |access-date=10 September 2014 |archive-date=6 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906043745/http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/history/history-1971/ |url-status=live}}</ref> was instigated by [[Andrew Kerr (festival co-founder)|Andrew Kerr]] after being found and introduced to Michael Eavis by David Trippas and organised with help from [[Arabella Churchill (charity founder)|Arabella Churchill]], Jean Bradbery, Kikan Eriksdotter, John Massara, Jeff Dexter, [[Thomas Crimble (musician)|Thomas Crimble]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nikturner.com/tirnanog/glastonbury2010.html |title=Glastonbury – 40 Years On |publisher=Nik Turner |access-date=27 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518105343/http://www.nikturner.com/tirnanog/glastonbury2010.html |archive-date=18 May 2011}}</ref> [[Bill Harkin]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Part 1 |url=http://www.pyramidstage-glastonburyfestival.co.uk/index.html |publisher=Bill Harkin |access-date=27 June 2011 |archive-date=16 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316010359/http://www.pyramidstage-glastonburyfestival.co.uk/index.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Gilberto Gil]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/15/gilberto-gil-caetano-veloso-london |last=Lewis |first=John |title=Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso in London |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=15 July 2010 |access-date=27 June 2011 |archive-date=28 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928135353/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/15/gilberto-gil-caetano-veloso-london |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Mark Irons]], John Coleman, and [[Jytte Klamer]]. The 1971 festival featured the first incarnation of the "Pyramid Stage". Conceived by Bill Harkin the stage was a one-tenth replica of the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] built from scaffolding and metal sheeting and positioned over a "blind spring", a term used to describe a hypothetical underground body of water in the pseudoscientific practice of [[dowsing]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Young |first=Rob |title=Electric Eden |year=2010 |page=493 |publisher=Faber and Faber Ltd |location=London |isbn=978-0-571-23752-4}}</ref>

Performers included [[Family (band) | Family]], [[David Bowie]], [[Mighty Baby]], [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]], [[Fairport Convention]], [[Gong (band)|Gong]], [[Hawkwind]], [[Pink Fairies]], [[Skin Alley]], [[The Worthy Farm Windfuckers]] and [[Melanie Safka|Melanie]]. It was paid for by its supporters and advocates of its ideal, and embraced a mediaeval tradition of music, dance, poetry, theatre, lights, and spontaneous entertainment. The 1971 festival was filmed by [[Nicolas Roeg]] and [[David Puttnam]] with Eavis and Kerr's Glastonbury Fair changed to ''[[Glastonbury Fayre (film)|Glastonbury Fayre]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Glastonbury Fayre |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810001/ |publisher=IMDb |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-date=18 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318062338/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810001/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and a triple album of the same name was released (no connection with the film).