Glastonbury Fayre (1972) - full transcript

The atmosphere and events of the second Glastonbury Festival, held in 1971.

[audience cheering]

- Alright, quiet.

Ladies and gentlemen,
special announcement.

It only happens one time a year.

Tonight is Arthur's
birthday, so would you

all join me in singing
Happy Birthday to him?

♪ Happy Birthday dear Arthur

♪ Happy Birthday to you

[spooky music]

[laughing]

[moves into drumming]



- I had a vision on the south
coast of Glastonbury tour,

such a strong one that I
drove without navigating.

It was so unnecessary,
I'm sure of it now,

around halfway to the sign -
seven miles to Glastonbury.

[humming]

[drumming]

Two days later, driving again,

a picture of Andrew with a
telephone book behind him.

I pulled over, stopped,
and dialed him.

He was waiting, "Fluvial come
'round, we have the farm."

[drumming]

I can't tell you
my version of this.

- [Voiceover] You're
an architect right?

- I'm an instructivist.



[pounding]

- Yeah, yeah I know.

- Lovely.

- Is it lighter yet?

- Yeah just about.

- You up there, you see those
yellow things over there?

Could we have one?

- Sorry.

- Oh well, we'll have
to go ourselves again.

[drumming]

[wind blowing]

["Dean" by Terry Reid]

♪ Girl with a heart

♪ That keeps on changing

♪ Girl with a mind

♪ That keep moving on

♪ Picking up things

♪ That life's afforded

♪ Loosen up tethers

♪ For the scene she's on

♪ You don't know you
don't know you can't tell

♪ You know sometimes
it don't go well

♪ But I can still
feel it all inside

♪ It feels like you're
losing your mind

♪ Come on keep on changing

♪ Come on girl I want the jive

♪ I know that it
ain't going my way oh

♪ Oh oh girl you keep me like

♪ I don't want to
take things no further

♪ The boys walk
with pretty girls

♪ Something 'bout this
gets me goin' crazy

♪ One last dance
and I know [mumbles]

♪ Oh my God it's a horrid hell

♪ We aren't gettin'
over this thing well

♪ But I can't breathe
don't know why I survive

[mumbles]

♪ Come on keep on changing

♪ Come on little I want the jive

♪ Doing the best I can
to hold this thing for us

♪ I don't know if this
is the way yeah yeah

♪ Oh oh oh

♪ Come on keep on changin'

♪ Come on little jive

[mumbles]

♪ Oh

♪ Won't be standin' 'round

♪ When that star's up in the sky

♪ Won't be standin' 'round

♪ Look me in the eye
won't be standin' 'round

♪ Won't stand around

♪ All today all tonight
I won't stand around

♪ I will stand and fight yeah

♪ Oh yeah yeah

[mumbles]

[high vocables]

♪ Keep on changing

[mumbles]

[high vocables]

♪ Keep on changing

[mumbles]

[harmonizing]

- Take care everybody.

[audience cheering]

- [Voiceover] Thank you
very much Terry Reid.

[mumbles]

Thank you very much indeed.

- And you let us know
when you're coming,

and we will arrange an
escort for you coming.

The middle of Shepton
Mallet we'll pick you up

and bring you straight
into the site.

Okay?

It tends to be a bit muddy.

Have you got any boots with you?

You too, bye.

Very much looking
forward to seeing you,

and see you later on tonight.

And it will be
beautiful, I promise you.

Okay, sleep well, bye.

- [Voiceover] What'd he say?

- What?

- [Voiceover] What'd he say?

- That wasn't him,
it was Melanie.

- [Voiceover] Was
it the manager?

- The manager, he hasn't called.

I don't know why it's
necessary for him to call.

[engine starting]

- Once you're in you
give it back to us

'cause we really have
a right problem inside.

♪ John the Wood went out one day

♪ To view the scene
from a different angle

♪ He stood and watched
a child at play

♪ Thinking on an old triangle

♪ Dave the Drum
who was passing by

♪ Bought the toy with
a coin he'd picked up

♪ You should've seen
the gleam in his eye

♪ As he saw and tuned
his cleaned up shined up

♪ La la la la la la
la la la la la la la

♪ La la la la la la
la la la la la la la

♪ Out in the rain if
you want a cup of tea

♪ Dodge the puddles in the yard

♪ The lord of the land's
coming 'round to complain

♪ It's hard

[crowd talking]

- Tastes good, it looks good.

I'm not sure if
it does any good.

- It'd be nice to see not
just Glastonbury Fayre,

but lots of small
festivals happening

with the same motive,
the same time,

perhaps four times a year,
both solstices, both equinoxes.

You see we can't tell what good

will come out of
it until we try it.

♪ Next to appear
was the Mighty Gled

♪ He needs a rest or
at least he says so

♪ You probably think
that he's flipped his lid

♪ 'Cause he wears high heels
and a snow-white trousseau

♪ Five foot three
yet he stands so tall

♪ And on the ground
his feet are never

♪ Friends may come
and friends may go

♪ But the fiddle
bill goes on forever

♪ La la la la la la
la la la la la la la

♪ La la la la la la
la la la la la la la

♪ Stand on a chair if
you want to watch the box

♪ The fleas can jump a mile

♪ Peer through the haze
watching Top of the Pops

♪ And smile

- Well, you can
certainly feel it

on Glastonbury Tour
and around there.

And of course you can
feel it at Stonehenge too.

If you go just behind what they
call the rock of sacrifice,

you get this same kind of
powerful magnetic field there.

I expect that these people
who built these places

knew how to douse for them.

It doesn't require a
special instrument,

as you can see one's own
body is the instrument.

["Dirty Linen" by
Fairport Convention]

[people chatting]

- Can you press up here?

[drumming]

- If you take it as
a special happening,

I think you will then
think on the terms

of what is going to happen
at this particular event.

But I don't think you ought
to approach it that way.

As a Christian, all
of time is God's time,

and therefore, you expect
a happening all the time.

["Glastonbury Fayre
Jam" by Michael Magic]

[screaming]

- Thank God mother, and I
could be insane in this world!

[screaming]

[drumming]

[howling]

- I was surprised you know.

thinking about the thing
later, I was amazed

how there was nothing
of suggesting indecency

and pornography and
that sort of thing.

And yet there they
were, all in the nude.

And behaving perfectly natural.

And I as part of the crowd,
too, didn't feel awkward at all.

I was amazed at myself really.

[harmonica playing]

[crowd chatting]

[plucking strings]

♪ After the turn you
finally learn to play along

♪ Your feelings are blind
so you don't really mind

♪ If it's right or wrong

♪ Fall in line

♪ No they won't let it stand
on the back of their hand

♪ Won't take a cave in the mine

♪ You see what they've done

♪ The end just
begun to filter in

♪ The end is in sight

♪ And the though of a
flight now it's wiltering

♪ Yours yours and mine

♪ They won't let it stand
on the back of their hand

♪ Won't take a cave in the mine

♪ Yeah yeah yeah hey

♪ I could cry for help

♪ But I'd much sooner
fend for myself

♪ Don't wanna feel that
I'm drowned in wine

♪ Hate every thought of
having to fall in line

♪ Just want to grow
just want to grow

♪ And share what's
yours and mine

♪ As sure as I see they're
looking at me with glasses on

♪ And as sure as I feel
I know they're for real

♪ And the gas is on

♪ Drowned drowned in wine

♪ Now they won't
let it stand no no

♪ Yeah yeah yeah

♪ Oh yeah

♪ Don't wanna feel that
I'm drowned in wine

♪ Hate every thought of
having to fall in line

♪ Just want to grow want to grow

♪ And share what's
yours and mine

♪ Oh

♪ After the time you finally
learned to play along

♪ Your feelings are blind
and you don't really mind

♪ If it's right or wrong

♪ I'm drowned drowned in wine

♪ No they won't let it stand

♪ Oh no

♪ No no no

♪ I said no they won't
let it stand no no no

♪ No they won't let it
stand no no no no no

♪ Drowned in wine

♪ Drowned in wine

[audience applauding]

[bawking]

- Friends, Romans,
and Englishmen,

I want to introduce you to
my friend from Texas, Debra.

And my chicken from France,

his name is Fricassee.

No, I'm just kidding,
he's a lousy,

dirty Englishman
five miles from here.

He's got the fleas,
he gropes around

on the ground picking his nose.

He's so dirty he's even
got a case of the crabs

and he is stoned.

And he not only is stoned,
but he's been talkin' to me.

And he said that the sun

was having a gigantic
orgasm today.

Today it had a giant
orgasm, making love

to Mother Nature right
here underneath our feet.

And from Mother
Nature we all came.

We sprang from the womb,
we sprang from the grass

and the flowers, and in
this beautiful love process

came chickens, lambs, little
pigs, and little children.

And a bunch of stoned
freaks like ourselves.

- I was actually
wandering through

the surrounding
cornfields before,

and there's still one
or two people doing it.

Probably they're all out
of their heads anyhow,

tripped out completely,
but it'd be rather

groove if you could
avoid the cornfields

and not fuck up the corn
because we want to keep

the people on our
side and we want to

keep the corn in
good pick as well.

[audience clapping]

♪ Well sometimes when

♪ I am feeling as
big as the land

♪ With a velvet hill
in the small of my back

♪ And my hands are
playing the sand

♪ And my feet are swimming
in all of the waters

♪ All of the rivers are givers

♪ To the ocean according to plan

♪ According to man

♪ Well sometimes when
I am feeling so grand

♪ That I become the world

♪ And the world becomes a man

♪ And my song becomes
a part of the river

♪ I cry out to keep me

♪ Just the way I am

♪ According to plan

♪ According to man

♪ According to plan
according to man

♪ Oh there's a chance

♪ Peace will come

♪ In your life

♪ Please buy one

♪ Oh there's a chance

♪ Peace will come

♪ In my life

♪ Please buy one

♪ For sometimes when
we have reached the end

♪ With the velvet hill
in the small of our backs

♪ And our hands are
clutching the sand

♪ Will our blood become

♪ Part of the river

♪ All of the rivers are givers

♪ To the ocean according to plan

♪ According to man

♪ Well there's a
chance peace will come

♪ In your life please buy one

♪ There's a chance
peace will come

♪ In your life please buy one

♪ For there's a chance

♪ Peace will come

♪ In your life

♪ Please buy one

♪ For sometime when

♪ We have reached the end

♪ With the velvet hill
in the small of our backs

♪ And our hands are
clutching the sand

♪ Will our blood become

♪ A part of the river

♪ All the rivers are
givers to the ocean

♪ According to plan
according to man

♪ There's a chance
peace will come

♪ In your life please buy one

♪ There's a chance
peace will come

♪ In your life please buy one

♪ There's a chance
peace will come

♪ In your life please buy one

♪ There's a chance
peace will come

♪ In your life please buy one

♪ There's a chance
peace will come

♪ In your life please buy one

♪ There's a chance
peace will come

♪ In your life

♪ Please buy one

[audience applauding]

[birds chirping]

[popping]

- I can see two rolling
hills, they stretch

in the background, and
two beams of light rising.

This was the first
pyramid image,

and all the audience
in turn dematerialized

in from of me and I woke up.

♪ Nobody's here to show you how

♪ Nobody's here

♪ To help you now

♪ You have to face
yourself alone

♪ And the villain
that you're fighting

♪ As you're screaming
'til you never understand

♪ And the vision there
before you it's no plan

♪ Watch me here watch me there

♪ I'm everywhere

♪ Would you laugh would you cry

♪ Are you afraid to die

♪ I've heard you
ask the question

♪ You want it come and strain

♪ If you don't find out now

♪ Gonna be far too late

♪ Standin' in a
dream what you mean

♪ Lost in a powerful wonder

♪ Shake you break
you shake you away

♪ Tonight deep down in your soul

♪ I know there's something
you're trying to hide

♪ Something you don't
want people to see

♪ But I'm gonna
find a way to see it

♪ Never understand

♪ And the vision there
before you is no plan

♪ Would you laugh would you cry

♪ Are you afraid to die

♪ For I am I am

♪ I am

♪ I am

♪ Oh oh oh

♪ In my own image by my will

♪ Do I hereby create all
forms and distinctions

♪ Of dual pattern

♪ Towards the triangular
shape of my will

♪ Let from the
Father and the Mother

♪ Come forth the Dark now

♪ Out of Chaos

♪ Bring forth the born

[screaming]

[guitar and drums playing]

[wind blowing]

[clapping and drumming]

♪ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

♪ Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

♪ Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

♪ Hare Rama Hare Rama

♪ Hare Rama Hare Rama

♪ Rama Rama Hare Hare

♪ Rama Rama Hare Hare

♪ Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

♪ Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

♪ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

♪ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

♪ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

♪ Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

♪ Hare Rama Hare Rama

♪ Hare Rama Hare Rama

- Everything is
perishable and after

they are perished, how
will you know the God.

You will perish someday, you
should know such a thing.

That is imperishable
never will perish

and that is the holy word,
holy knowledge of God,

and that is within you.

But if the true God
is equal for everyone,

life is the [mumbles] indeed.

God in English who died for you.

If God is the same thing, God
is not you be all the same.

If the formula H2O is
a formula for water

for everywhere, that
means the flavor

that is the water will
be the same everywhere.

If the God is equal,
if the God is one,

and God is same, that
is not also equal.

And it cannot be
akin by going to

different sects and religions.

That is within you
and if you want to go

you can only within
your bodies look.

Different sects and
religions not the knowledge.

But to go anywhere, you need
some money, some pounds.

To go to the Jahad
you need some pounds

for the tickets, or for
anywhere you need some pounds.

My pounds are the love
and the devotion pounds

that can only be
attained by a bank.

You have a bank, in
your sense of it,

the money of love and devotion.

Because I've got that word,
I've got that knowledge,

I've got that thing,
and I can say to you all

that I can help mankind
and every onr of you

by giving that knowledge.

[drumming]

["Giants" by Quintessence]

♪ Hey hey hey hey hey hey

♪ Hey hey hey hey hey hey

♪ If you want a
life that is free

♪ If you want a life
full of happiness

♪ If you want to turn your
back on fear and shame

♪ Leave it leave
it all behind you

♪ Have no fear

♪ You got to turn your
back on what you have been

♪ You got to leave
it all behind you

♪ You got to leave
it all behind you

♪ Ever free

♪ Hey hey hey hey hey hey

♪ Hey hey hey
brothers and sisters

♪ Brothers and sisters
brothers and sisters

♪ We were born to be free
every day of our lives

♪ Do you know what I mean

♪ We were born to be free
every day of our lives

♪ Well there's love in the
air there's love everywhere

♪ There's love everywhere

♪ Love love love love love
love love love love love

♪ Free love love
that goes on and on

♪ And on and on and on

♪ Real love love love love

♪ Love love love love love

♪ Plenty more love love love

♪ Love love love love love

♪ Let it all come out now

♪ Let your love let it
shine on all mankind ♪

[instrumental music]

♪ Once there was a land

♪ Where now there is a sea

♪ Giants in this green country

♪ They grew as tall as trees

♪ And they heard prophecies

♪ They knew the coming tide

["Freedom" by Quintessence]

[singing]

- Point of fact let's
divide flat out of,

Lord remember your Church
throughout the world.

- And then you take
over from there.

Brothers and sisters...

- Good.

[instrumental music]

In the name of the
Father, and of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

The Lord be with you.

- And also with you.

- My dear people, it is a
great privilege to come here.

I believe where the Church
is, where people are,

the Church should be.

And so I've come here
in this wonderful moment

to be able to do
the Mass and ask for

Almighty God's
blessing on you all.

- And you see the
archetypes of all things

before thee become
frozen into matter.

The universal face of all people
behind their physical face.

You understand the
meaning of all events

behind the actual happenings.

Experience, envision yourself
as being a consciousness.

A luminous consciousness.

- You are all of
you, sons of God

through faith in Jesus Christ.

All baptized in
Christ and there are

no more distinctions
between Jew and Greek,

slave and free,

male and female,

but all of you are
one in Christ Jesus.

[singing in foreign language]

[clapping]

- The message of
Christ in this reading

from the gospel is very
very simple isn't it?

If we want to live we must die.

[clapping and chanting]

- He was crucified,
died, and ascended.

He ascended to Heaven
where he is seated

at the right hand of the Father.

I believe that the
Holy Spirit, the Lord,

the Giver of Life who proceed
to the Father and the Son.

Together with the
Father and the Son,

is adored and doted by.

Let us pray for Almighty
God's blessing on us all.

We should show a
community feeling

so that the whole world
may be one community.

Lord hear us.

[humming]

[clapping and cheering]

- [Voiceover] And how
many years more we need

to add to those few in
order to be living enough.

How many more we need to add
to raise of intimacy even.

From celebration to reverence.

- [Voiceover] I think it's
done everybody a lot of good.

I felt very down this
morning when everybody

was leaving and then I
suddenly realized one shouldn't

because this isn't
the kind of festival

people are meant to just
stay and stay forever.

They found something here, an
energy, whatever you call it.

[laughing]

[people chatting]

[wind instrument playing]

- [Voiceover] It's very
very full of joy I think.

No it is, it is.

[wind instrument playing]

I'm really enjoying myself here.

- It's nice and
sunshine, I love it!

- Okay, over and out.

- No!

[audience cheering]

["Gimme Some Loving" by Traffic]

♪ Well my temperature's risin'
and my feet on the floor

♪ 20 people knockin' 'cause
they're wantin' some more

♪ Let me in baby I don't
know what you've got

♪ But you'd better take
it easy this place is hot

♪ So glad we made it

♪ So glad we made it

♪ You gotta gimme
gimme some lovin'

♪ Gimme some lovin' everyday

♪ Well I feel so good
everything's sounding hot

♪ Better take it easy
'cause the place is on fire

♪ Been a hard day and
I don't know what to do

♪ Wait a minute baby
it could happen to you

♪ So glad we made it

♪ So glad we made it

♪ You gotta gimme some lovin'

♪ Gimme some love

♪ Gimme some lovin'

♪ Well

♪ Well

♪ Well I feel so good
everybody's gettin' high

♪ Better take it easy
'cause the place is on fire

♪ Been a hard day
nothin' went too good

♪ Now I'm gonna relax
honey everybody should

♪ So glad we made it

♪ So glad we made it

♪ Oh yeah

[audience cheering]

♪ Girl with a heart

♪ That keeps on changin'

♪ Girl with a mind

♪ That keeps moving on

♪ Picking up things

♪ That life's afforded

♪ Loosen up tethers

♪ For the scene she's on

♪ You don't know you
don't know you can't tell

♪ You know sometimes
it don't go well

♪ But I can still
feel it all inside

♪ It feels like you're
losing your mind

♪ Come on keep on changing

♪ Come on little I want the jive

♪ I know that it
ain't going my way oh

♪ Oh oh girl you keep me like

♪ I don't want to
take things no further

♪ The boys walk
with pretty girls

♪ Something 'bout this
gets me goin' crazy

♪ One last dance
and I know [mumbles]

♪ Oh my God it's a horrid hell

♪ We aren't getting
over this thing well

♪ I can't breathe yeah I
don't know why I survive

[mumbles]

♪ Come on keep on changing

♪ Come on little I want the jive

♪ Doing the best that I can
to hold this thing for us

♪ I don't know if this
is the way yeah yeah

♪ Oh oh oh

♪ Come on keep on changin'

♪ Come on little jive

[mumbles]

♪ Now she's gone 'cause
she keep on changin'

[mumbles]

♪ All the time [mumbles]

♪ It all comes home

♪ So take your time baby

[mumbles]

♪ Come on keep on changin'

♪ Come on girl I want the jive