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JULY l6, 1969 b weekly BOB DYLAN is bound for Britain! His agent in New MAGNIFICENT York has cabled acceptance of a unique offer for Dylan to SEVEN OF SOUL play a concert at the Isle of Wight on Sunday, August 31 The event is the Second Isle of PAGE 10 Wight Festival of Music staged on August 29, 30 and 31 . And Dylan is the star of a series of attractions Already booked for the Festival are: Tom Paxton, Pentangle, lndo Jau Fusions, Gary Farr, Who, Liver pool Scene, Third Ear Band, Joe Cocker and the Grease Band (who will be breaking their tour in Ameri ca to appear) , Moody Blues, Free, Marsha Hunt and White Trash, Bonzo Dog Band, King Crimson, Edgar Broughton, Battered Orna ments, Family, Fat Mattress, Blod wyn Pig and Julie Felix. Dylan stipulates he wants to ap pear with The Band and Ritchie Havens. Rikki Farr - co-promoter of th~ Festival with the brothers HUMBLE PIE Ray, Ronnie and Bill Foulk - flew to the States on Monday night to WELCH AT finalise the deal. Rikki - son of famous British boxer Tommy Farr - told the MM: THEIR " I have been after Dylan for a year. At first he said ' no,' but he became interested when we sent him a tu\\ HIDE OUT colour film of the festival site at the Isle of Wight. PAGE 15 " We are expectiog an audience of at least t 00.000, llflCi .. lay~ on boMa 6-t B~ and pita the cable from the States, a London spokesman for the personal management company of Dylan said THUNDERCLAP on Monday that the news of the loW appearance was " premature," and that no contractural agreements NEWMAN have yet been finalised.
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