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Director
  
Murray Lerner

Country
  
United States

7.6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Message to Love movie poster

Release date
  
21 February 1997 (USA)

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Message to Love (directed and produced by Murray Lerner) is a feature documentary film of the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. The film unsparingly, often comically depicts the myriad problems associated with the famously chaotic festival—the main program of which was held on August 26–30, 1970—including gate-crashing, numerous crowd incursions onto the stage, Kris Kristofferson being booed offstage, and head promoter Rikki Farr's rants against the audience, which only intensified as the situation deteriorated: "We put this festival on, you bastards, with a lot of love! We worked for one year for you pigs! And you wanna break our walls down and you wanna destroy it? Well you go to hell!" This and two other brief dialogue extracts from the film were later sampled in the Oasis track "Fuckin' in the Bushes", from the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.

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In addition, several near-riots occurred over the price of tickets, as well as during several of the performances that took place over the weekend, especially Jimi Hendrix's last billed performance in England.

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Due to financial difficulties, Message to Love wasn't released until 1997, 27 years after the event, after premiering at a San Jose film festival in 1995. A CD of the soundtrack was also issued by Castle Communications/Sony Legacy in 1997.

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In recent years, Lerner's copious 16mm concert footage has been repurposed to create a wealth of complete-performance DVD releases by Hendrix (Blue Wild Angel), Miles Davis (Miles Electric - A Different Kind of Blue), The Who (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970), Jethro Tull (Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (The Birth Of A Band: Isle of Wight 1970), The Moody Blues (Threshold of a Dream: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970), Leonard Cohen (Leonard Cohen Live at The Isle of Wight 1970), Free (Free Forever DVD), and Taste (What's Going On Live At The Isle of Wight 1970).

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The film derives its title from a song that Jimi Hendrix performed, and a brief clip is shown during the opening credits.

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Performances

  • Jimi Hendrix ("Message to Love", "Machine Gun", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", "Foxy Lady", "Purple Haze")
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer ("Pictures at an Exhibition")
  • The Who ("Young Man Blues", "Naked Eye")
  • Ten Years After ("I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes")
  • The Doors ("When the Music's Over", "The End")
  • The Moody Blues ("Nights in White Satin")
  • Free ("All Right Now")
  • Jethro Tull ("My Sunday Feeling")
  • Taste ("Sinner Boy", "Gamblin' Blues")
  • Family ("The Weaver's Answer")
  • Kris Kristofferson ("Me and Bobby McGee")
  • Joan Baez ("Let It Be")
  • John Sebastian ("Red Eye Express")
  • Tiny Tim ("There'll Always Be an England")
  • Leonard Cohen ("Suzanne")
  • Joni Mitchell ("Woodstock", "Big Yellow Taxi")
  • Miles Davis ("Call It Anything")

    • The 2-CD set contains full versions of the songs as featured in the film. The CD release also includes dialogue from the film placed in between some of the tracks.

    Performances in order of appearance in the film

    1. Jimi Hendrix: "Message to Love"
    2. The Who: "Young Man Blues"
    3. Free: "All Right Now"
    4. Taste: "Sinner Boy"
    5. Tiny Tim: "There'll Always Be an England"
    6. John Sebastian: "Red Eye Express"
    7. Ten Years After: "I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes"
    8. The Doors: "When the Music's Over"
    9. The Moody Blues: "Nights in White Satin"
    10. Kris Kristofferson: "Me and Bobby McGee"
    11. Joni Mitchell: "Woodstock"
    12. Joni Mitchell: "Big Yellow Taxi"
    13. Miles Davis: "Call It Anything"
    14. Leonard Cohen: "Suzanne"
    15. Emerson, Lake & Palmer: "Pictures at an Exhibition"
    16. Jimi Hendrix: "Machine Gun"
    17. Jimi Hendrix: "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
    18. Joan Baez: "Let It Be"
    19. Jethro Tull: "My Sunday Feeling"
    20. The Doors: "The End"
    21. Great Awakening: "Amazing Grace"
    22. Jimi Hendrix: "Foxy Lady"
    23. The Who: "Naked Eye"
    24. Bob Dylan: "Desolation Row" (studio version played over the end credits)

    CD track listing

    Disc one
    1. Free - "All Right Now" - 4:54
    2. Jethro Tull - "My Sunday Feeling" - 4:24
    3. Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne" - 4:27
    4. Jimi Hendrix - "Foxy Lady" - 5:31
    5. Jimi Hendrix - "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - 8:56
    6. Ten Years After - "Can't Keep from Cryin'/Extension on One Chord" - 11:50
    7. Kris Kristofferson - "Me and Bobby McGee" - 5:44
    8. Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi" - 3:46
    9. Joni Mitchell - "Woodstock" - 4:04
    10. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "Blue Rondo à la Turk/Pictures at an Exhibition/Drum Solo" - 7:35
    11. The Doors - "When the Music's Over" - 11:46
    Disc two
    1. The Who - "Young Man Blues" - 5:54
    2. The Who - "Naked Eye" - 6:23
    3. Tiny Tim - "There'll Always Be an England" - 1:15
    4. Taste - "Sinner Boy" - 5:11
    5. Joan Baez - "Let It Be" - 3:53
    6. The Moody Blues - "Nights in White Satin" - 5:23
    7. Donovan - "Catch the Wind" - 3:51
    8. Family - "Weaver's Answer" - 7:22
    9. John Sebastian - "Red Eye Express" - 3:58
    10. Miles Davis - "Call It Anything" - 14:56
    11. Great Awakening - "Amazing Grace" - 3:47
    12. Bob Dylan - "Desolation Row" - 11:43

    References

    Message to Love Wikipedia
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    Message to Love IMDb Message to Love themoviedb.org


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