The Pop Corporation

We focus so much on Glastonbury and Reading in the UK, that we overlook some of the one-offs that happened in the ’70s in small towns, with insanely good line-ups and loads of opposition from locals.

Back in 1972, if you lived in Bardney in Lincolnshire, you were aware that a festival was going down with a wild line-up and everyone was furious.

At the show, you had the Beach Boys, Rod Stewart, Roxy Music, Joe Cocker, Slade, Rory Gallagher, Genesis, Status Quo, Wishbone Ash, and get this – Monty Python.

There were protests from locals about it, drug use and of course, the North of England not blessed with great weather, torrential rain

It’s funny to think about Carl Wilson singing like an angel in the middle of Lincolnshire, but Pilton is just as strange if it wasn’t for the success of Glastonbury, right?

Sly Stone was rumoured to be playing, but alas, it never happened.

Here’s some great footage from BFI with organisers hamming it up, local coppers going on with themselves and some footage of the bands. Magic stuff.