About the Author

RAY FOULK, now based in Oxford, has fostered many passions since his early days as a promoter. After the dizzy heights of the Isle of Wight Festivals and stadium events in London, the Foulk brothers were head-hunted by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation to help plan the leisure content of their new city. Through this Ray brought the inventor/scientist/ designer Buckminster Fuller, to the project, embraced his environmentalism, and eventually trained as an architect himself at the University of Cambridge. Combining design, education and promotion he spent much of the nineties and noughties as an environmental campaigner, and led the ambitious in-schools project, Blue Planet Day, rekindling the satisfaction, and more, that the festivals had brought to his youth. Recent years have been dominated by environmental architecture and writing. CAROLINE FOULK has worked with her father, Ray, for many years, researching, writing, and co-promoting the schools environmental project, Blue Plant Day. Recently, together they have completed a screenplay for the cinema about the invention of modern art. Caroline trained and worked as a teacher and lives in Oxford with her husband and three children.

Reviews

"Beyond merely being a book about a festival, Foulk does a masterful job in telling the true story of what it took to get Dylan on the bill and what it all meant for all involved. The text is accompanied by photographs of the various artists on stage and in attendance as well as many fascinating behind the scenes pictures."-- "The Rock and Roll Chemist"

"One of the fantastic things about exploring Dylan's pre-and post-festival reclusiveness in part one, Stealing Dylan from Woodstock, is that we see how this historic Isle of Wight event locates within the star's own story, and maybe even how the festival affected his subsequent career."-- "The Big Issue"

"The book includes a potted account of Dylan's life and work, and some fantastic unseen photographs. . .But it's the human stories that compel. As well as the colourful cavalcade of performers - including Joe Cocker, Richie Havens and The Band - there's a stellar supporting cast of English eccentrics."--Graeme Thomson "Daily Mail"

"The full story, which he is revealing only now, complete with never-before-seen photographs, sheds new light on a mysterious period in the life of rock's greatest songwriter, and has a supporting cast of Beatles and other rock gods."-- "The Independent"