Stonehenge
keeps being a famous concert place. The main reason is, obviously, its
reputation as a part of World Heritage.
First
of all, there was the Stonehenge Free Festival. It was held from 1972 to 1984
annually during the month of June. The culmination of SFF was at the day of the
summer solstice at June 21. We have no room to enumerate all the band
participated in the festival, but the fact that has to be mentioned is that all
of them played music for free. The attendance grew up to 65,000 people;
although, the festival wasn’t much covered in mass media. The festival had not been held for about 20 years after a hippie scandal, but in 2012 it was restored and nowadays it is annual as it was in 70s.
In
the 1965 film Help! the popular band The
Beatles were performing on Salisbury Plain; Stonehenge was visible in the
background of the musicians.
Some
bands called their songs and albums in the name of the henge. The 1984 video
release Stonehenge made by Hawkwind,
The Enid and Roy Harper, consists of fourteen songs. One of the songs from This is Spinal Tap movie is called Stonehenge. Brazilian band Fresno gave one of the Quarto dos Livros album songs the same
name.
Moreover,
there was a Russian band called Stonehenge,
playing doom metal. Originally Liturgy,
they renamed in 1994. Main lyrical themes of their songs were war and violence.
In 2002 the band split up, and some musicians are the members of nowadays’
active More Hate Productions.
A
British author of historical novels Bernard Cornwell wrote a novel Stonehenge, where he reconstructs the events of forty centuries ago. The main characters of the novel are Saban and
Camaban, the young sons of Hengall. They both outsmart their enemies and
survive attempts to kill them. Their main enemy is their older half-brother,
Lengar.
Stonehenge is quite famous in the sphere of games. Paizo Publishing released Stonehenge: The First Anthology Board Game
in June 2007. Later in the same year an expansion titled Stonehenge: Nocturne was released. There is also an airplane
simulator Ace Combat 04, where the
player can find a superweapon called Stonehenge.
This is the video made by some Roy Harper fan at the 1984 Stonehenge Free Festival. Feel the atmosphere and remember that all the bands played for free.
This is the video made by some Roy Harper fan at the 1984 Stonehenge Free Festival. Feel the atmosphere and remember that all the bands played for free.
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