GEORGE BODNAR ARCHIVE/ICONICPIX
On a sodden late-summer Saturday in 1980, the world changed. Or at least the corner of it where heavy rock lived did. On that day, August 16, 1980, upwards of 40,000 denim-clad longhairs gathered in a field in the East Midlands to witness the birth of an event that would play a huge part in shaping the decade to come: the inaugural Monsters Of Rock festival.
Michael Schenker and Roger Glover, 1980