Life - Woodstock at 50 - 2019

SOME OF THE SOGGY PILGRIMS of Woodstock were, by day three, exhausted from exposure and sought shelter anyway and anywhere they ...

respectively, while Brit Graham Nash had come from the Hollies. That trio’s debut album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, had produced ...

By the Time We Got to Woodstock Joni Mitchell wrote the song about the festival—but she wasn’t there oni Mitchell was all set to ...

Paul Butterfield Blues Band 6–7:15 AM Steeped in Chicago blues, Butterfield’s group originally included Michael Bloomfield and E ...

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instrumentalist of all time.” True or not, James Marshall Hendrix of Seattle was inarguably an original whose supernatural maste ...

IN THE EERIE AFTERMATH OF the festival, the great hillside looked much like an abandoned battleground, belying the 60-some hours ...

he quintessential image of Woodstock may be the one at right, the blanketed couple embracing on the cover of the Woodstock album ...

IT WAS A SIMPLE, SWEET HUG on the sloppy but serene Sunday morning of Woodstock, a moment that would have been lost to history b ...

What is Woodstock’s legacy? As such a unique and unforeseen cultural event it can never, of course, be replicated. But it has pr ...

ONE MODERN MUSICAL CHILD of Woodstock is the annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Southern California: two conse ...

N 1996, CABLEVISION FOUNDER Alan Gerry purchased the Woodstock site and launched a plan to create a museum and arts center dedic ...

IN TRIBUTE TO WOODSTOCK, a plaque commemorates the site (opposite), and the Museum at Bethel Woods (above) celebrates the 1969 f ...

Burning Man in Nevada, and Coachella in California, to name a few. All could be said to have been inspired by Woodstock and its ...

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Photo Credits Front Cover: Woodstock Ventures LC Back Cover (clockwise from top left): MPTVImages; © Jim Marshall Photography LL ...

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Many of the performers made a powerful emotional bond with the vast audience in front of them, including the beloved, bedazzling ...

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