Joni Mitchell neither attended nor performed at Woodstock, but after seeing reports about the festival that weekend, she wrote a song about it. Her own version of "Woodstock," featuring just her electric piano and mutli-tracked vocals, was released as the B-side to "Big Yellow Taxi" and on...
In 1969, the largest music festival of its time was held, and was known as Woodstock. Later that year, the Rolling Stones put together a massive free concert in San Francisco known as the Altamont Concert. All of the concerts and music festivals were not aimed at making money or becoming...
the raids spread to 52 campuses across the country, with as many as 3,000 male panty raiders at the University of Texas in 1961. The fad died in the late 1960s
Amonth beforeWoodstock50 was announced, the festival was already in deep trouble. Last December,Michael Lang, the co-founder of the original 1969 event who had become its bemused-hippie symbol in subsequent decades, was in talks with an upstate New York racetrack for a fest that would mark t...
The official synopsis reads, “In 1969, during the same summer as Woodstock, a different music festival took place 100 miles away. More than 300,000 people attended the summer concert series known as the Harlem Cultural Festival. It was filmed, but after that summer, the footage sa...
1969: Woodstock music festival Public Domain 1969: Woodstock music festival Billed as "three days of peace and music," the Woodstock music festival featured more than 30 rock bands and was attended by more than 400,000 in upstate New York. The event is widely regarded as a key turning point...
Popular music in the '70s had many dividing lines, but none was bigger than disco. Bee Gees played an undeniable role in this shift, notably with their involvement with the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. Starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, the film was a critical and commercial ...
The Texarkana, Texas Parks and Recreations Department has released its upcoming Movies in the Park schedule for this summer.
Woodstock, GA, Georgia It's simple really. It was 1983 and I was 10 years old. I had just gotten spanked by the priest in front of the whole catholic church congregation for playing with a pencil while my mom was winning parent of the year. Needless to say I was a bit chafed and ...
(with others) to make it happen; Michael Lang (who produced the first Miami Pop Festival in May 1968) and Artie Kornfeld, who together produced Woodstock in 1969; and Atlanta’s Alex Cooley, who organized two festivals in Georgia, one in Texas, and one in Puerto Rico between 1969 and ...