Message to Love

Message to Love directed and produced by Murray Lerner is a feature documentary film of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. The film unsparingly, often comically depicts the myriad problems associated with the famously chaotic festivalthe main program of which was held on August 2630, 1970including gatecrashing, numerous crowd incursions onto the stage, Kris Kristofferson being booed offstage, and head promoter Rikki Farrs rants against the audience, which only intensified as the situation deteriorated We put this festival on, you bastards, with a lot of love We worked for one year for you pigs And you wanna break our walls down and you wanna destroy it? Well you go to hell This and two other brief dialogue extracts from the film were later sampled in the Oasis track Fuckin in the Bushes, from the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

In recent years, Lerners copious 16mm concert footage has been repurposed to create a wealth of completeperformance DVD releases by Hendrix Blue Wild Angel, Miles Davis Miles Electric A Different Kind of Blue, The Who Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, Jethro Tull Nothing Is Easy Live at the Isle of Wight 1970, Emerson, Lake amp Palmer The Birth Of A Band Isle of Wight 1970, The Moody Blues Threshold of a Dream Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Live at The Isle of Wight 1970, and Free Free Forever DVD.The film derives its title from a song that Jimi Hendrix performed, and a brief clip is shown during the opening credits. ........

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