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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
Daevid Allen – Australian singer and guitarist of Soft Machine and Gong; John Ashton – English-born producer and guitarist for The Psychedelic Furs; The Band members: Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson – the five shared a house together, where they recorded The Basement Tapes (with Bob Dylan) and wrote several songs for Music from Big Pink.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
Melanie, the singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had major pop hits with “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” in the early ’70s, died Tuesday at age 76. News of ...
Woodstock '94 was an American music festival held in 1994 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival of 1969. [1] [2] It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music". The poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two catbirds perched on the neck of an electric guitar, instead of the original ...
Music from Woodstock 1999 was released on a two-disc compact disc set, Woodstock 1999. The album features 32 performing artists and was released on Epic Records on October 19, 1999. [164] A DVD of concert highlights entitled Woodstock 99 was released in March 2000. It features the more positive aspects of the concerts with one song each from 29 ...
Thompson: Initially, "Music Is History" just started out — it was just going to be a book of massive lists. Like, I wanted to list 10,000 songs that were earth-shattering to me.
From the 1970s through the 90s, rock music’s A-listers flocked to the tiny Woodstock hamlet of Bearsville to record some of the era’s most iconic albums. The Band, Ringo Starr, Patti Smith ...