More than 500 people were injured and 21 people died on July 24, 2010 at an annual electronic music festival in Duisberg, Germany, which drew more than 1 million people to an area that had capacity for roughly 250,000. Passage to the area was mainly through tunnels which quickly became ov...
but I thought we did well. I didn’t give a sh-t how many people were there; I had already been through that with the Hollies for six or seven years before I had ever met David or Stephen. My fondest memory was playing ‘Guinnevere’ with David, just his guitar and the two voice...
Iraq, so many others, “the “clash of civilizations” between Islam and the West, getting universal health care in America (my own personal cause celebre)… we must “still keep up the fight.” Not give up “hope.” Not
But that absence of information was one sign of the growing discord behind the scenes, which continued to include conflicting estimates of how many people could pack into Watkins Glen. “My vision for it was 100,000 or more,” Lang later toldRolling Stone. But even by the New Year’s mil...
because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t like the term. If anything, I was the beat generation – people in the Village expressing themselves in so many ways, ...
because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t like the term. If anything, I was the beat generation – people in the Village expressing themselves in so many ways, ...
because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t like the term. If anything, I was the beat generation – people in the Village expressing themselves in so many ways, ...
because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t like the term. If anything, I was the beat generation – people in the Village expressing themselves in so many ways, ...
“There are teen-agers who walk up to me now and say, ‘I saw you on television in “Woodstock” the day beforeyesterday,’” Havens said. “It wasn’t just the music. It was the people who showed up and the fact that at the time it was necessary for us to show how many of ...
In 1969, the country was deep into the controversialVietnam War, a conflict that many young people vehemently opposed. It was also the era of thecivil rights movement, a period of great protest and unrest. Woodstock was an opportunity for people to escape into music and spread a message of...