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When the World Came to the Isle of Wight

Dimensions	22.8 × 15.2 cm
Format	Hardback
ISBN	9781911487005
Publication	10 September 2016
Author	Caroline Foulk, Ray Foulk
Publisher	Medina Publishing

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James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement – 26th July 2017

“If asked before I read The Last Great Event, I would have said – with the same certainity that I would claim to have heard Free at Glastonbury the year before – that Hendrix’s piece de resistance was “The Star-Spangled Banner”. After all, I was there. Ray Foulk was even more there. he says it was “God Save the Queen”

James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement (The Last Great Event)
Ray Connolly, Daily Mail – 26th July 2017

“If you were one of the half a million music fans who made their way like raggle-taggle gypsises to the Isle of Wight 1970, you will absolutely love this backstage look at a great moment in rock history”

Ray Connolly, Daily Mail (The Last Great Event)
Sid Griffin, BBC Radio 6 – 26th July 2017

“Ray Foulk and his brothers, Ronnie and Bill – it is incredible what they did – it is incredible”

Sid Griffin, BBC Radio 6 (The Last Great Event)
Donal Gallagher – 26th July 2017

“A most enjoyable and well crafted book. Having attended and participated in the Isle of Wight Festival, with my brother’s band Taste (as a road-manger), it was so pleasing to read the account of the whole event and wished I had met up with Ray before completing the Taste documentary from the gig.”

Donal Gallagher (The Last Great Event)
Classic Rock Magazine – 26th July 2017

Classic Rock Magazine… “like rock n roll meets Ealing comedy, a great tale, lovingly told”. 2nd May 2015 (Stealing Dylan From Woodstock)

When the World Came to the Isle of Wight

Caroline Foulk, Ray Foulk

This special edition of When the World Came to the Isle of Wight comprises Stealing Dylan From Woodstock and The Last Great Event, shrink-wrapped and packaged in a psychedelic bellyband. When the World Came to the Isle of Wight records festival organiser Ray Foulk’s experience of the 1968, 1969 and 1970 Isle of Wight Festivals which featured musical legends including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and the Who.

“Ray Foulk and his brothers, Ronnie and Bill – it is incredible what they did – it is incredible”

Sid Griffin, BBC Radio 6

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Categories: Gift Books, Medina Publishing, Memoirs, Non-Fiction

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When the World Came to the Isle of Wight: The Last Great Event tells festival organiser Ray Foulk’s story of the 1968, 1969 and 1970 Isle of Wight Festivals. Volume 1, Stealing Dylan from Woodstock, recalls the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, Bob Dylan’s one and only full concert appearance in seven-and-a-half years and one that played its part in a highly transformative period of the artist’s life. The book tells, from a unique perspective, of an extraordinary event that seismically altered the lives of the author, his family, all those involved with it and many of those who attended. After the festival famously ‘stole Bob Dylan from Woodstock’ in 1969, and was the starting point and benchmark for all rock and pop festivals in the UK. The following year, documented in Volume 2, The Last Great Event, would also be Jimi Hendrix’s last major performance – 17 days later he was dead. Many remember this festival as a magical, life-changing experience, encapsulating the sixties trip of sex, drugs, rock’n’roll and a political yearning for a better world. But for others, a question looms large over the history: did this final festival help precipitate the end of the dream of an alternative society, or did it reflect the changes already taking place?

Dimensions	22.8 × 15.2 cm
Format	Hardback
ISBN	9781911487005
Publication	10 September 2016
Author	Caroline Foulk, Ray Foulk
Publisher	Medina Publishing

Caroline Foulk

Caroline Foulk has worked with her father, Ray, for many years, researching, writing, and co-promoting the schools environmental project, Blue Planet Day. Recently, together they have completed a screenplay for the cinema about the invention of modern art. Caroline trained and worked as a teacher and lives in Oxford with her husband and three children.

Ray Foulk

Ray Foulk, now based in Oxford, has fostered many passions since his early days as a promoter. After the dizzy heights of the Isle of Wight Festivals and stadium events in London, the Foulk brothers were head-hunted by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation to help plan the leisure content of their new city. Through this Ray brought the inventor/scientist/designer Buckminster Fuller, to the project, embraced his environmentalism, and eventually trained as an architect himself at the University of Cambridge. Combining design, education and promotion he spent much of the nineties and noughties as an environmental campaigner, and led the ambitious in-schools project, Blue Planet Day, rekindling the satisfaction, and more, that the festivals had brought to his youth. Recent years have been dominated by environmental architecture and writing.

5 reviews for When the World Came to the Isle of Wight

Classic Rock Magazine – 26th July 2017

Classic Rock Magazine… “like rock n roll meets Ealing comedy, a great tale, lovingly told”. 2nd May 2015 (Stealing Dylan From Woodstock)
Donal Gallagher – 26th July 2017

“A most enjoyable and well crafted book. Having attended and participated in the Isle of Wight Festival, with my brother’s band Taste (as a road-manger), it was so pleasing to read the account of the whole event and wished I had met up with Ray before completing the Taste documentary from the gig.”

Donal Gallagher (The Last Great Event)
Sid Griffin, BBC Radio 6 – 26th July 2017

“Ray Foulk and his brothers, Ronnie and Bill – it is incredible what they did – it is incredible”

Sid Griffin, BBC Radio 6 (The Last Great Event)
Ray Connolly, Daily Mail – 26th July 2017

“If you were one of the half a million music fans who made their way like raggle-taggle gypsises to the Isle of Wight 1970, you will absolutely love this backstage look at a great moment in rock history”

Ray Connolly, Daily Mail (The Last Great Event)
James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement – 26th July 2017

“If asked before I read The Last Great Event, I would have said – with the same certainity that I would claim to have heard Free at Glastonbury the year before – that Hendrix’s piece de resistance was “The Star-Spangled Banner”. After all, I was there. Ray Foulk was even more there. he says it was “God Save the Queen”

James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement (The Last Great Event)