Isle of Wight (album) explained

Isle of Wight
Type:live
Artist:Jimi Hendrix
Cover:Isle_of_wight-1971.jpg
Recorded:August 31, 1970
Venue:Isle of Wight Festival, England
Genre:Rock
Length:34:02
Label:Polydor
Producer:Michael Jeffery
Chronology:Jimi Hendrix UK
Prev Title:Experience
Prev Year:1971
Next Title:Rainbow Bridge
Next Year:1971

Isle of Wight is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in November 1971 by Polydor in the UK and Europe.[1] It documents some of Hendrix's performance at the Isle of Wight Festival on August 31, 1970, his last official performance in England before his death less than three weeks later on September 18, 1970.

The album was engineered by Carlos Ohlms (a British-based engineer).[1] The cover photo is from a live concert on September 4, 1970 at Deutschlandhalle, Berlin. The album spent two weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at [1] Some tracks appeared on the three record set The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies on Columbia Records in the US.

The album went out-of-print and is superseded by (2002), which contains the full performance.

Track listing

All songs were written by Hendrix, except where noted. The track durations are taken from the first (1988) Polydor CD reissue[2] (earlier LPs did not list timings) and may differ from other sources.

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Book: Shapiro. Harry. Harry Shapiro (author). Glebbeek. Caesar. Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy. 1990. 1st US edition: July 1991. St. Martin's Press. 0-312-05861-6. 541.
  2. 1988. Isle of Wight. Album notes. Jimi Hendrix. Polydor. 831 312-2. Back cover.