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Twenty-five years ago, half a million flower children set sail for the Isle of Wight in search of peace, love and understanding. Amidst the chaos of “Britain’s Woodstock” some lost their hippy ideals. But all who came witnessed one of the greatest ever rock festivals. Now, for the first time on video, enjoy once again these legendary live performances by The Doors, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Free, The Moody Blues, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull and – in what turned out to be his final UK gig – Jimi Hendrix. Their music stands the test of time. And so does this film, as it recalls the sheer hedonism of hippiedom, the backstage back stabbing that that almost wrecked the festival, and the final passing of an age of innocence – the last great event.

This documentary by Murray Lerner was shot in 1970, but for many reasons was not shown to the public until 1995 in Great Britain. In an important way, it is the final chapter in an unofficial trilogy of concert films (along with Woodstock and Gimme Shelter) that together paint a picture of the highest and lowest points of Woodstock Nation politics: from mass goodwill to anarchy to outright stupidity. On the one hand, Message to Love is a rock & roll movie with several performances that are outright revelations (the Who's triumphant show, the Doors' "The End"), some that are awfully good (Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun"), and more than enough that are superfluous (Ten Days After, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Jethro Tull). On the other hand, Lerner's cameras are trained on the increasingly testy relationship between nomadic hippies who travel a long way to see the show but refuse to pay, and concert producers who resort to using guard dogs, cops, and aluminum walls to keep crashers at a distance. Just how bad does the mood become after several days of this? Check out the scene in which Joni Mitchell breaks down in tears after singing her ode to peace and love, "Woodstock," before this lot. In an era when we've become used to extraordinary security and high ticket prices at rock concerts, it's perhaps hard to grasp what the fuss was about at the Isle of Wight. But Lerner's amazing film helps a viewer get a sense of what was really at stake in that period before rock & roll was a corporate matter, and when kids naively thought it was theirs for the taking.

Tracklisting:
1. Jimi Hendrix – Message to Love
2. Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun
3. Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
4. Jimi Hendrix – Foxy Lady
5. Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
6. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures At An Exhibition
7. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Blue Rondo A La Turk/The Gates Of Kiev
8. The Who – Young Man Blues
9. The Who – Naked Eyes
10. Ten Years After – I Can’t Keep From Crying
11. The Doors – When The Music’s Over
12. The Doors – The End/Includes Crossroads
13. Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin
14. Free – All Right Now
15. Jethro Tull – My Sunday Feeling
16. Taste – Sinner Boy
17. Taste – Gambling Blues
18. Family – The Weaver’s Answer
19. Kris Kristofferson – Me & Bobby McGee
20. Joan Baez – Let It Be
21. John Sebastian – Red Eye Express
22. Tiny Tim– There’ll Always Be An England
23. Leonard Cohen – Suzanne
24. Joni Mitchell – Woodstock
25. Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
26. Miles Davies – Call It Anything
27. Splitter – Give Peace A Chance/Catch The Wind/Good News, Bad News/Amazing Grace
28. Bob Dylan – Desolation Bow

Extended film version including additional tracks:
• Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Rondo
•  Family -  The Weaver’s Answer
• Taste - The Gambling Man

Extra  Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xDVD9
Formaat: ISO/MDS
Geluidspoor: DD2.0 & DD5.1
Audio: Engels
Ondertitels: Duits (alleen documentaire)
Menu: Ja, Animated
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Release Datum:  10 December 1997
Speelduur: Totaal 210 minuten waarvan 90 minuten Concert en 120 minuten Documentaire
Cover: Hoesje is in de RARs verwerkt