The Isle of Wight festival is planning a Jimi Hendrix-themed world record attempt this weekend. Organisers will attempt to break the record for the most people wearing the same masks in the same place ...

Tuesday, June 17 will mark the first Blu-ray release of Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle of Wight, the enrapturing film that documents the guitar legend’s August 1970 performance before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, pictured performing at Madison Square Garden in New York in May 1969, died on 18 September, 1970.

If you asked those fortunate enough to see Jimi Hendrix perform live at one of his 350 or so shows during his short career to describe the experience, words like "amazing," "electrifying," ...

Fifty years ago this month, somewhere in the ballpark of 600,000 music fans schlepped over to England’s Isle of Wight to witness one of the greatest festivals in rock history. It featured Woodstock ...

The event later became known as “Britain’s Woodstock,” after fans without tickets tore down the fences to gain access and the total estimated attendance swelled to 600,000 – believed to be the largest ...

If the goal of Ron, Ray, and Bill Foulk was to create a British Woodstock, the numbers would show they succeeded. Estimates claim attendance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival to be around 600,000 to ...

Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing recalled sneaking backstage at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 in a bid to meet Jimi Hendrix. Already a big fan of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Downing ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain kicked off its summer music festival season on the Isle of Wight with a world record attempt in honour of Jimi Hendrix 45 years after his last UK performance at the venue.