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1968: FIRST CROWD UNREST The festival shifts to Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey and rock bands such as Jethro Tull perform. Among the guests appearing in the mid-Sixties period are folk star Donovan, The Who and Cream. 1966-1967: OFF TO THE RACES Following complaints about noise and inadequate facilities, the festival moves to Royal Windsor Racecourse in Berkshire. A year later, when it is called The National Jazz & Blues Festival, the Stones come back but this time their fee has risen to £1,000.
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In addition, making their first appearance – for the whopping appearance sum of £30 – are Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones. 1963-1965: ROLLING STONES GET £30 Long John Baldry and American legend Muddy Waters are brought in to add blues to the mix. In 1962, British jazz stars Humphrey Lyttleton and Kenny Ball were added to the bill. The first bands appear in a small marquee and among the first performers are Johnny Dankworth, Chris Barber, Dick Charlesworth, Mike Cotton, Tubby Hayes, Ken Colyer and Bruce Turner's Jump Band with John Chilton, a band who had appeared in a Jack Gold film that year called Living Jazz. The inspiration came from the Newport Jazz Festival in America. Here's a potted history of a rock festival that started as a jazz event in a marquee in Richmond and has seen 54 years of mud, mayhem, music – and bottle-throwing 1961-1962: ALL THAT JAZZ The Reading Festival begins life, founded and sponsored by Harold Pendleton of the Marquee club, as The National Jazz Festival at Richmond Athletic Ground, Surrey, on August 26-27 1961. The Reading Festival is the world's oldest popular music festival still in existence.