Super Concert '70 was a one-day music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 held at the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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 on September 4, 1970. The festival was headlined by Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...

. Other artists on the bill included Canned Heat

Canned Heat

Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...

 (of which harmonica/guitar player and vocalist Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson

Alan Wilson (musician)

Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica, and wrote most of the songs for the band.-Early years:...

 died just the day before), Procol Harum

Procol Harum

Procol Harum are a British rock band, formed in 1967, which contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock. Their best-known recording is their 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale"...

, Ten Years After

Ten Years After

Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart...

, Cat Mother

Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys

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 and Cold Blood and Murphy Blend.

A notable fact about this festival is that it was Hendrix's second to last performance. He would only take the stage once more at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival held in Fehmarn

Fehmarn

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, Germany on September 6, 1970.