Come Together The Rise of the Festival

*8.0

Status

Released

Production

Sky Arts & Creative England

Aired

2018-08-09

Come Together The Rise of the Festival

This feature-length documentary, first shown on Sky Arts, explores the evolution of the festival through interviews with the pioneers who staged the original events, including Michael Lang (Woodstock), Michael Eavis (Glastonbury), Andrew Kerr (Glastonbury '71), Freddy Bannister (Bath and Knebworth), Ray Foulk (Isle of Wight), George Wein (Newport) and Paul Tollett (Coachella), plus a few of the musicians who performed at them - Pete Townshend, Steve Winwood, Ian Anderson, Nick Mason, Al Stewart, Bob Geldof and Noel Gallagher