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Jerry Lee Lewis, Traffic, Jeff Beck, Deep Purple, The Herd, Marmalade, Ten Years After, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Incredible String Band, Al Stewart, Joe Cocker, The Nice, Taste, John Mayall and Jethro Tull appear among the major attractions at the 8th National Jazz, Pop Ballads And Blues Festival, Kempton Park Racecourse, Sunbury, England, UK, Europe.
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Harold Pendleton (organiser) : At the time, the largest halls were London's Royal Festival Hall (capacity 3000) and Royal Albert Hall (5,300) so when we started getting 10,000 people, it was a very exciting time.
Governments might be used to large gatherings now but, back then, the only reason that people could see for a crowd of 10,000 getting together was to go to war.
(Source : Audience magazine, 2001)
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Governments might be used to large gatherings now but, back then, the only reason that people could see for a crowd of 10,000 getting together was to go to war.
(Source : Audience magazine, 2001)