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There
appear to have been various versions of the poster, which did of course change
as the line-up of artists permutated and morphed into different versions. As
the promoters seemed to have a rather fiery relationship with some of their
artistes , the bill seemed to change from week to week. The
Moody Blues were
supposed to have withdrawn, and been replaced by the Everly
Brothers, but the Moodies made it on stage
, whereras the Everley's were nowhere to be seen.
Likewise Spirit never showed- which seems to have
been a regular thing for them, I also cannnot remember
Cat Mother making it to the stage either, but then it was a long , long
weekend, I might have just missed them when I went to the toilet.
A different poster,
definitely by a different artist, can anyone help with details ?
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The Artist
Was David
Fairbrother -Roe.
A Liverpudlian illustrator, he studied at the Royal Academy in London in the
mid 60s before tuning in and turning on and becoming a prolific popartnik. His
acadmically-trained technique put him head and shoulders above many of his audodidact
contemporaries producing psychedelic art. In 1968, 1969 and 1970, Dave was the
artist who produced the posters, programmes and tickets for the Isle of Wight
Festivals: Britain's most famous 60s rock festivals (the UK's Woodstock). The
most famous of these
is the 'Psychedelic Drummer' poster... one of the original posters reportedly
now hangs in Noel Gallagher's living room.
In the 1970s, Dave produced acclaimed album covers for Jon Anderson of Yes and
Nazareth. He also produced 'science fantasy' cover art for the Pern novels of
the Tolkienesque writer Anne McCaffrey. McCaffrey called him in a letter the
'king of dragon artists', and his talent for dragon-painting led him to work
on a (lost... Dave has the demo) album on Dragonlore with Jon Andersen.
Pete Thomas
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David Roes artworks
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