Philip Alexander Grahame Russell (9 August 1947 — 3 September 1975), known as Wally Hope, was an experimental philosopher of the UK Underground and organiser of the Windsor Free Festival and the Stonehenge Free Festival. Biography Activities and adoption of new name While in London during the early 1970s, he fell in with a group called the Dwarves, taking their name from the Dutch Provo group the Kabouters. Described as "a kind of Notting Hill version of the Yippies in America: a joke-prankster group", he adopted the name "Wally Hope" for himself, under which he would acquire the status of countercultural folk hero. The name Wally derived from a popular festival cry (a kind of "Everyman" joke that arose when the crowd began echoing the name of a lost dog being summoned by his owner at the last Isle of Wight Festival) and he had the word "Hope" embroidered on a shirt that his grandmother had embroidered for him "became his trademark: a riot of spectacular colour with the eye of Horus in the middle banked by a rainbow". Stonehenge Free Festival See Stonehenge Free Festival Whilst at a well-known hippie café on the Spanish Island of Ibiza he first came up with the idea of a free festival at Stonehenge. He "wanted to claim back Stonehenge (a place that he regarded as sacred to the people and stolen by the government) and make it a site for free festivals, free music, free space, free mind". The first Stonehenge Free Festival happened from midsummer in June of 1974; and then, in September of that year, after the violent dispersal of the Windsor Free Festival by police on Wednesday 28th August 1974, some who had witnessed the police brutality in Windsor Great Park walked to Wiltshire, and set up in a field alongside a by-way off the A344, within sight of Stonehenge, and some distance to the West of it. Despite a leafleting campaign and promotion by Radio Caroline, it was a small gathering, numbering about 500 people at the most. The only music was provided by early synth pioneers Zorch, who set up stage facing the stones, and who had to cope with a poor PA system. The festival might have had little impact if it had stopped soon after midsummer, Wally had persuaded some thirty people to remain, on National Trust land in the field adjacent to Stonehenge itself.