Sid Rawle (Part One)

Interview with Sid Rawle by Madan

[@anjipanjicat]

Sid and his family were kind and welcoming to me in a very zen way.Sid showed me the orchard /forest he planted at his farm. What a lovely legacy to leave along with his life's work of helping people to be themselves and take responsibility for that.I visited the Avalon orchard at Glastonbury yesterday and i thought of you and the Rainbow camp days.Love and light. Angie x

[@bumbletwig]

RIP Sid. You'll always be remembered as a life-loving hippy in our eyes. BB

[@capetownhammer]

I met Sid in 1967 in a church hall near Trafalgar Square where us hippies used to hang out. He arranged for my friend and I to be extras in the movie Hammerhead.

[@waynesilverman3048]

@capetownhammer some admit (who was young in the Late 60s say it wasn't the perfect Decade its been popular seen as,apart from the music In my view) ex hippie said you still got bored ect and my old friend disagrees with me and says you still had to pay tax ect and he'd prefered to go back to medieval time bc,

[@davidnogoodboyo]

RIP Sid, old mate!

[@modonovan2082]

Met SID in 82' He was a gentleman and looked after me along with his lovely then wife Jules. Id love to get in touch with their son JOSh. We lived together for a while in a bender at upper heyford peace camp until i dispatched. I was 13 Josh about 11. R.I.P

[@antonian8892]

I met Joshua when I was about 4 years old, we were staying at a house in London I think, Sid's house I thought at the time. I remember Sid, to me he seemed huge - there were a lot of people and a boy called Joshua and we got on and played together

[@kates4819]

Blimey, last time I saw him was at Ffair Feigan in about 1977 when he still had long ginger hair. We sat on a log in the rain and he offered me Earl Grey tea in a porcelain cup while we talked about our kids. Happy (or is is hippy?) days...
Good to see he is still with us - such a nice man!

[@MajicalYouth]

he isnt with us anymore. died of a heart attack some years ago

[@newforestpixie5297]

I’d heard of Sid but didn’t hear him speak until a TV Studio appearance - Question Time or a West or South ( or both ) Regional tv Special Debate Programme ( before Regional Television was dumbed down and corporately owned ) during the hoo hah about the Festivals at Stonehenge . He spoke up for the young folk passing through towns & villages around the Plain whom were being vilified for everything that was wrong or bad in society by the locals ,the local media and councillors . I recall Sid talking eloquently and enough sense and honesty to win the majority the studio audience over or at least give them something to think about 😁🏴❤️

[@newforestpixie5297]

1957 = Rock n Roll Revolution 1967 = Psychedelic Revolution. 1977 = Punk Revolution 1987 = Rave & Acid House Revolution. 1997 = The Internet came to save everyone from Robbie Williams and Elton John all day every day ....

[@TomEveson99]

I first met Sid in a night club in London around !970, I'd come down from London in a van with my mates for a good time, the driver had a job so had to return before the night was out, I was having a great time so I stayed behind, when It was all over Sid came up to me, I recognized him from TV, he offered me a place to crash in a squat, the next morning he gave my a huge pile of silver coins, enough for a coach ticket back to the Midlands, no strings attached!
I met him again 3yrs later and....

[@helenback9516]

I remember being at Windsor free festival in 74 seeing Sid n everyone looking n shouting out for Wally!! :) x

[@ludovica36]

RIP Sid... You were a one off... I shall not weep as I know you would want everyone to party... Totally flawed human being.. but we all are.. RIP

[@WarzSchoolchild]

There was one small tent left in Windsor Great Park after the Hari Krishna Temple Tent had been dismantled. That tent was mine. When the Police arrived I was the first tent they visited. "It's OK Alastair, we won't be bothering you today." (R.M.P.T.A., Dad's Army Royal Military Police)

[@ludovica36]

Awesome! Sid! I thought he was a gonner!
I knew this guy!
I used to knock about with his son Josh and his mate Jose in Talley Valley in 1984. I'd love to hear from those guys I remember me and Jose sitting in a tree for 9 hours laughing after a particularly potent cup of tea!

[@jojojam6012]

I turned up at Dorinish Island just before my 21st birthday in 1973, after Sids crowd had left. If anyone's interested there's more to tell.

[@MajicalYouth]

hey jojo im keen to hear you story!

[@davidnogoodboyo]

hi sid,the godess garden is looking good now.I saw your brief appearance in glastonbury,the julien temple film.great interview,i've never heard you talk so much.seeyouat rainbow.the best is yet to come

[@seasiderover10]

Where's part 2?

[@johnstoneruth8809]

dear old sid! i really loved this man.... he was sooooooo lovely to the ladies !!!! how silly to imagine some poor person thought he was "a bit of a nonce!" did she ever take the time to get to kwow him or just listen to jealous gossip? lady, it sounds to me like you missed out!!!

[@StonehengeReunited]

@mrsdlr1972
I lived in tipi valley in the late 70's and i want to try to contact as many people as possible to try to get each different take on the place

[@mukhumor]

Good luck with that, cze I reckon a lot of them have been quietly killed off.

[@waynesilverman3048]

@@mukhumor why?

[@mukhumor]

@@waynesilverman3048 Hawkwind said it: 'You can disappear in smoke, and that ain't no joke, and I'm telling you, that ain't no lie'

[@waynesilverman3048]

@@mukhumor psychedelic warlords

[@TomEveson99]

@narcoleptus Part 2
... and paid him back with interest! he didn't even remember!
What he did was wonderfully human and mindful and I will never forget it.
RIP Sid

[@DICEGEORGE]

Some of Sid's stories about John Lennon's island as told to Jeremy Sandford are in the book Travelling Daze www.enablerpublications.co.uk/pages/travelling_daze.htm as well as comments about him being a dirty old man.

[@stephennicolay1940]

Far Out

[@liamardo007]

@mrsdlr1972 i remember Bible John, always at Stonehenge too. Do you remember that guy and his chick who lived on the double decker bus up the way a bit from the farm? Fucking worked me to the bone getting fire wood that would last a year!!

[@modonovan2082]

Josh its Rowan (louisa)

[@ludovica36]

kevin Robert Lesley and Shaun were Carol's kids yeah. I think the Tanya Mrsdlr1972 is talking about, with a daughter keira was the former wife of the guy I was with in 84 up there, andy, who was with bev before me, and bev was with Chris w after him and was with chris for a lot of years.