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The 2020 festival season’s spate of cancellations and postponements is disappointing, for sure, but try not to lose heart: We’re still keeping the spirit alive by cranking up the volume on our favourite playlists, and looking back at the most exciting, inspiring and moving moments in music festival history.
1. It’s hard to imagine now, but rock and roll icon Bob Dylan was booed off the stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. What was his offence?
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2. Other artists have fared much better in Newport: Which jazz legend was able to revive his floundering reputation after a monumental performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, playing alongside tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves?
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3. In 2018, Beyoncé so thoroughly blew Coachella-goers away that fans starting referring to it as Beychella, and Netflix released a movie about her performance (‘Homecoming’). The show had actually been scheduled for the previous year, but was postponed due to…
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4. Whose extraordinary 2006 Coachella performance, using never-before-seen LED light show technology, has often been referred to as “life-changing” – and said to have sealed their legendary status in electronic music?
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5. In another epic Coachella moment, who performed from beyond the grave (in hologram form) at the festival’s 2012 edition?
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6. In 2011, after playing their regular set, the band Deer Tick reappeared at 1:30am as “Deervana” and played an 8-song set entirely composed of Nirvana covers – complete with guitar-smashing and crowd-surfing. At what festival did this happen?
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7. Speaking of Nirvana: At the 1992 Reading Festival in London, Kurt Cobain was rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair, smoking and wearing a wig and a hospital gown. He pretended to collapse, then proceeded to give a performance for the history books. True or False: This was the last time Nirvana ever played in the UK.
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8. Girls rock… but only if they can get bookings. In 1996, Sarah McLachlan was tired of festival organisers refusing to host two female acts in a row. So she and Paula Cole created their own concert tour and travelling festival called:
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9.Which iconic British superstar headlined the second ever Glastonbury Festival in 1971 and returned two decades later in 2000?
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10. Which iconic Australian music festival has the reputation as being the oldest and biggest?
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11. The year is 1976. The festival is Smile Jamaica. Bob Marley stuns fans by performing as scheduled just two days after he was…
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12. Show, don’t tell – at least, that’s what Rage Against The Machine was thinking when they bared all in a particularly revealing protest at the 1993 Lollapalooza. What were they protesting?
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13. Realising that 8 out of 10 headlining acts since 2007 were male, what major festival pledged in 2019 to achieve a 50/50 gender balance in future line-ups?
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14. And, last but not least, who famously burned their guitar after finishing the final set of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?
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Image Credits:
Question #3 – Asterio Tecson/Wikimedia Commons
Question #6 – Mike Higgott/Flickr
Question #7 – Rose Robin/Flickr
Question #8 – DoD News/Wikimedia Commons
Question #9 – Edward Simpson/Flickr
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