IN THE VALE OF AVALON: GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 1971 by Paul Misso - Vintage Music Festival Book, 70s Counterculture History - Perfect for Music Lovers & Festival Enthusiasts

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Paul MissoGlastonbury Festival2

19701971Nicolas RoegJulie Christie

HawkwindTrafficDavid BowieFairport ConventionGlastonbury Fayre12,000

7,00016028

Dee Palmer / Jethro Tull34
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Paul Misso's In the Vale of Avalon: Glastonbury Festival 1971 is a previously unseen photographic account of the first year of the festival with the pyramid stage. Misso attended Glastonbury on the invite of film director Nicolas Roeg. Misso was Julie Christie's driver at the time. Roeg planned to make a film of the festival and Misso was to take photographs. Roeg shot his footage but, on seeing Misso's photographs, declared that Paul had ‘captured it’ but he hadn't. The film was shelved, and these photographs were almost lost in the mists of time – save for their beautifully belated appearance in this book.

In the Vale of Avalon is not so much a photobook of the bands who played: Hawkwind, Traffic, David Bowie and Fairport Convention included; rather it is an intimate portrait of some of the 12,000 festivalgoers who attended the free event, then called Glastonbury Fayre.

“After the festival, I selected about 160 slides into two Kodak Carousel trays from the 7000 pictures that I shot, and projected them for Nic Roeg and his producer at Nic’s house on his birthday in August. When the show was over, Nic looked at me with what appeared to be tears in his eyes and said quite emotionally: 'Paul, you got it and I didn’t.' This meant eventually that he dropped the film, so my pictures became obsolete, and ended up in a drawer for many years.”

“For 18 months after the festival, Dee Palmer and I would hold evening slideshows in our flat in Hammersmith about 3 or 4 times a week to people who wanted to continue to be there or to see what they’d missed.” – Paul Misso