| Hollywood Music Festival | |
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| Genre | Rock and folk, including hard rock and psychedelic rock styles |
| Dates | 23 and 24 May 1970 |
| Location(s) | near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England |
| Years active | 1970 |
| Founders | Onista Ltd |
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The Hollywood Music Festival was held at Leycett in an area called Hollywood on the grounds of Ted Askey's[1] Lower (pig) Farm at Finney Green,[2] between Silverdale and Leycett,[3] near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on 23 and 24 May 1970. It was notable for the first performance of Grateful Dead in the UK and also for the performance of Jose Feliciano and Mungo Jerry, and featured such notable bands as Free, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Colosseum, Family, Black Sabbath and Traffic. The company responsible for the festival was Onista Ltd, who promptly went bankrupt unable to pay festival staff. Onista was an offshoot of Eliot Cohen's Red Bus company, with Ellis Elias and Elliot Cohen as the promoters.
- ^ [1] Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] [dead link]
- ^ "John Abberley | Hollywood Music Festival in Madeley | Stoke & Staffordshire | Stoke Sentinel". Thisisstaffordshire.co.uk. 2009-06-13. Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2014-06-29.