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Redwood 70

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Redwood 70
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It was the summer of 1970, six months after Woodstock; local media hyped this Phil Warren-promoted two-day music festival as New Zealand’s version. Despite promises of revolution, it was more low-key with 1500 music fans bussing out to the Swanson holiday park for — as MC Peter Sinclair introduced it — “36 hours of non stop top pops of New Zealand’s top bands”, from psych-rock to gospel. The big star was sometime Bee Gee Robin Gibb, whose high pitch was infamously welcomed with a thrown tomat...

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1970
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bee gees / music festival / tony hopkins' gospel groups / cincinnati underground / peter sinclair / rock festival / massachusetts / robin gibbs / robin gibb / gospel / rock / psych rock / phil warren / police / i started a joke / paul hewson

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