Summer of '69: Amazing photos capture historic Woodstock festival that defined a generation

[Jazzy]

On the 43rd anniversary of the legendary Woodstock music festival, held in Bethel, New York, a series of remarkable photographs taken at the time offer a window on the landmark event celebrating music and peace.



Woodstock Music & Art Fair was staged at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskill mountains near the hamlet of White Lake from August 15 to August 18, 1969.



The festival featured a total of 32 acts, including such icons as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Nebulous Cocker, Santana, and The Who, making it one of the most outstanding concert lineups in history.



Despite the rain which had turned the grounds of the farm into a giant mud bath, the festival drew an audience of some 500,000 people, many of whom camped out in tents and vans for the duration of the weekend.



Hendrix was the last act to perform at the festival, but due to the bad weather, only about 35,000 people got to hear his psychedelic rendition of the U.S national anthem in what was to become one of the defining moments of the 1960s.

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Several years ago I went to a record store that was closing its doors and selling all their albums. To my shock and delight, I found the Woodstock Live album. I'll tell you, it is one of my favorite albums in my collection.

 

[DrLeftover]

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He was there.



Interesting reading.



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I was nine. I remember some of the hoopla, but Woodstock was a thousand miles away, and the Sixties didn't get to my hometown until after the Bicentennial.



Oh well.