Location: Childhood home of Billy Idol - Orpington
Happy Summer Solstice
For those who are too young to remember, there used to be a big free music festival that was held at Stonehenge in Wiltshire during the Solstice. Hawkwind were the perennial headline act!
By the 1980s, the festival had grown to be a major event, and an estimated 30,000 people attended in 1984. However, the festival attendees were viewed as hippies by the wider British public and this, along with the open drug use and sale, contributed to the increase in restrictions on access to Stonehenge, and fences being erected around the stones and a law being passed forbidding driving over grassland in order to reach the stones - effectively this resulted in the end of the festival
As a result of this, Hawkwind wrote the song 'Night Of The Hawks' about the struggle to find an alternative venue for the festival to be held
For those who are too young to remember, there used to be a big free music festival that was held at Stonehenge in Wiltshire during the Solstice. Hawkwind were the perennial headline act!
By the 1980s, the festival had grown to be a major event, and an estimated 30,000 people attended in 1984. However, the festival attendees were viewed as hippies by the wider British public and this, along with the open drug use and sale, contributed to the increase in restrictions on access to Stonehenge, and fences being erected around the stones and a law being passed forbidding driving over grassland in order to reach the stones - effectively this resulted in the end of the festival
As a result of this, Hawkwind wrote the song 'Night Of The Hawks' about the struggle to find an alternative venue for the festival to be held
Yeah the old bill sorted out that lot of druids and hippies.....
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