The Trip sets out on a musical joyride, celebrating three iconic festivals that changed the way we grooved to music Live Aid Live Aid was a 1985 rock concert held to raise fund for famine relief in Ethiopia. The event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, and was attended by a total of over 1,70,000 people Tributaries of the event took place in Australia and Germany. The concerts were broadcast by satellite and reached the homes of 400 million viewers, across 60 million countries, including India (on Doordarshan!). This made it the largest television broadcast of all time. The concert featured acts including Queen, U2, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Duran Duran, Sting, Dire Straits, Elton John and David Bowie. The concert raised 150 million pounds. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/apr/jimi.jpg" border="5" /> Glastonbury The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, best known for showcasing the best in popular music, also features acts such as cabaret, theatre, circus, dance and comedy. The festival takes place in South West England, six miles east of the town of Glastonbury and has been hosted there regularly since the 1970s. u00a0 The festival has featured popular acts including David Bowie, Fairport Convention, Oasis, Jeff Buckley, The Cure, Radiohead, Pulp, Blur, Franz Ferdinand and Muse. This year the festival will be heldbetween June 23 and 27 2010. Tickets were sold out less than 24 hours after going on sale on 4 October 2009. Woodstock The Woodstock Festival, technically called the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair took place from August 15 to 17, 1969. u00a0 It was attended by 4,00,000 free minded souls and was listed in the Rolling Stone's list of 50 Moments that Changed the History of Rock and Roll.u00a0 The thirty-two acts included ones by Pandit Ravi Shankar, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. u00a0 A documentary film, Woodstocku00a0 (1970) captured the social, cultural and economic circumstances that went into creating the festival. In 2009, the film Taking Woodstock focussed on the lesser-known architects who shaped the fest.

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