Beat that: what a festival line-up

Although a smaller affair than the much better-known Isle of Wight festival of the same year, the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music, held on June 27-28, 1970, at the Shepton Mallet showground, boasted perhaps the greatest UK music festival line-up of all time.

Headlined by Led Zeppelin (who were paid £20,000 for their performance) and Canned Heat, the bill …

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