The First European International Pop Festival: Pigpen To Meet Pope?
Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 10 February 1968
THE FIRST EUROPEAN International Pop Festival, a resounding name for a still rather mysterious event, is being planned for Rome's huge Palazzo dello Sport February 19 to 25.
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