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It’s his landmark August 1970 performance at the Isle of Wight Festival with Taste — the band with which he established himself as a world-renowned guitarist — that has earned him the accolade.
In a film of the band’s set at the festival headlined by Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and The Who, director Murray Lerner captured the virtuosity for which Gallagher continued to build a reputation in a solo career that followed Taste’s break-up months after the concert.
