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Parkes notes that the film was among the very first to sell out when tickets for this year’s festival went on sale.

As late as midsummer, he was still running advertisements for the concert, which didn’t sell out until the waning days of July 1965.

All 27 performances are expected to sell out as usual for the kind of spectacle that exists nowhere else.

On Saturday, an electronic dance music set was planned, with the main artist posting online that they expected tickets to sell out — just before organizers decided to postpone the show.

This is because the high demand from parents and those working in education for those dates means travel firms can hike prices up and still sell out.