Woodstock’s organizers ran out of time to put up fencing around the venue. During the months leading up to the festival, Woodstock’s organizers faced an all-out war from locals who tried to stop the event. Wh
It would probably be fair to say that when Paul McCartney hastily scribbled down lyrics for "Hey Jude" in a spiral notebook in 1968, he did not stop to consider that one day those pages would sell for close to a million dollars. In 2020, a collection of a few hundred Beatles items w...
……Well, notliterallyof course. Although my friend “The Mum”* might wish they did. The Mum lives in another country, with a halfway decent health system; where if you’re on disability and jump through enough hoops (metaphorically) and wait long enough (like a year and a half, liter...
When those two digits became "00" instead of "98" or "99," the world's computer networks and all the information they contained were supposed to simultaneously crash, but they never did, and Jan. 1, 2000 was a day like any other. You may also like: "I have a dream" and the rest...
Gone were the days when hits such as "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" generated a crackling wave of electricity among the Woodstock generation, who eagerly tapped into the group's raw fusion. Both as a solo artist and with his trusted band, Carlos Santana had spent the 1970s ...
Rod Stewart (1971):Stewart's breakthrough album hit No. 1, as did its killer single "Maggie May." The backing band includes members of Faces, whom Stewart was doing double duty with at the time, and they help work the album into an eternal bluesy, boozy rock 'n' roll party. ...
Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock Strat – $2 Million The white 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix played at the first Woodstock festival is perhaps the most iconic guitar in rock history. As of now, perMusicRadar, it sits at the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle. Before that, however, Micro...
One of John Fogerty's most powerful, and timeless, songs, "Who'll Stop the Rain" encapsulated the dawning of a new decade by looking back on the tragedies of the one before it. It's easy to read Vietnam in the lyrics, as well as a swipe at post-Woodstock complacency, but there's...
Ulysses S. Grant instructed William Sherman to seize Savannah; Nolan Bushnell hired Allan Alcorn to design Pong; Woodstock served as Snoopy's sidekick for years, faithfully performing any task that was asked. The point? Delegating works. For entrepreneurs, delegating might not mean the difference ...
One year later, as I wandered around the Woodstock Festival, I was overwhelmed by the realization that this tribal event was in actuality what the Yippies had originally fantasized about for Chicago. No longer did so many of these celebrants have to feel like the only Martians on their block...