Since the middle of the 70s, people hear the murmur that the flamenco festivals are in crisis, and they do different analysis of its harms for different celebrities of the flamenco world. Some of them exist, well, a decline happens in the middle of the 80s. ​Ángel Álvarez Caballero did an inquiry about the problem of the festivals, writing as follows in the newspaper EL PAIS during 1984: "All the opinions agree that one of the causes of the increase of the cost and the causes of the crisis of the festivals is the extension of themselves, they made very long programs and the festivals lasted 6-7 hours".