Sky presents the Isle of Wight Festival, you really came to play! Day 1 was unreal 🔥 📹 @vincelee @yurina_okamoto @riajordangriffin Artist: The Slates Song: Calling Up #IOW2025 #SkyxIOW | Isle of Wight Festival

The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed as the headlining act -- in front of 600,000 fans -- at the Isle Of Wight Festival of Music on August 31, 1970. This historical performance was both filmed and recorded and has been preserved as part of the multi-format release > BLUE WILD ANGEL: JIMI HENDRIX LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Available on CD, DVD and Blu-ray from https://bit.ly/3aMNP3M and streaming exclusively via The Coda Collection at https://bit.ly/32UxoPy #JimiHendrix #IsleOfWight #IOW #BlueWi

With the Isle of Wight Festival kicking off today we thought it would be a good time to look back to 1970 where an estimated 600,000 people came to the festival to watch Jimi Hendrix play one of his last ever gigs. #IOW2025 | BBC Archive

#OnThisDay 1970: People were arriving at East Afton Farm for the Isle of Wight festival - which would feature Jimi Hendrix, The Who and a lot of tea. | BBC Archive