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Message to Love / The Isle of Wight Festival The Movie DVD 1995 / Directed by Murray Lerner / Live performances by The Doors, The Who, The Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix
UPC 5038456310010
MADE IN EU
REGION 2 PAL DVD
AUDIO: English 2.0
TOTAL RUNTIME: 137 MINUTES
!!! Condition of DVD is USED VERY GOOD !!!
Tracklist:
| Programe Start | |||
| Introduction | |||
| 03 | –Jimi Hendrix | Message To Love | |
| 04 | –The Who | Young Man Blues | |
| 05 | –Free | All Right Now | |
| 06 | –Taste |
Sinner Boy | |
| 07 | –Tiny Tim | There'll Always Be An England | |
| 08 | –John Sebastian | Red Eye Express | |
| 09 | –Donovan | Catch The Wind | |
| 10 | –Ten Years After | I Can't Keep From Crying | |
| Desolation Row | |||
| 12 | –The Doors | When The Music's Over | |
| 13 | –The Moody Blues | Nights In White Satin | |
| 14 | –Kris Kristofferson | Me & Bobby McGee | |
| 15 | –Joni Mitchell | Woodstock | |
| 16 | –Joni Mitchell | Big Yellow Taxi | |
| 17 | –Miles Davis | Call It Anything | |
| 18 | –Leonard Cohen | Suzanne | |
| 19 | –Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Pictures At An Exhibition | |
| 20 | –Jimi Hendrix | Machine Gun | |
| 21 | –Jimi Hendrix | Voodo Child (Slight Return) | |
| 22 | –Joan Baez | Let It Be | |
| 23 | –Jethro Tull | My Sunday Feeling | |
| No Fences | |||
| 25 | –The Doors | The End | |
| Amazing Grace | |||
| 27 | –Jimi Hendrix | Foxy Lady | |
| 28 | –The Who | Naked Eye | |
| The Last Great Event | |||
| End Credits | |||
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 festival—the main program of which was held on August 26–30, 1970—including gate-crashing, numerous crowd incursions onto the stage, Kris Kristofferson being booed offstage, and head promoter Rikki Farr's 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!"
In addition, several near-riots occurred over the price of tickets, as well as during several of the performances that took place over the weekend, especially Jimi Hendrix's last billed performance in England.
Due to financial difficulties, Message to Love wasn't released until 1997, 27 years after the event, after premiering at a San Jose film festival in 1995. A CD of the soundtrack was also issued by Castle Communications/Sony Legacy in 1997.
In recent years, Lerner's copious 16mm concert footage has been repurposed to create a wealth of complete-performance 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 & 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), Free (Free Forever DVD), Taste (What's Going On Live At The Isle of Wight 1970), The Doors (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970) and Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now. Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 ).
The film derives its title from a song that Jimi Hendrix performed, and a brief clip is shown during the opening credits.
