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Woodstock: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Music Festival

By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Richard D. Hurd
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"We were ready to rock out, and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn.... There were a half million people asleep. These people were out. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud. And this is the moment I will never forget as long as I live: A quarter mile away in the darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his Bic, and in the night I hear, 'Don't worry about it John. We're with you.' I played the rest of the show for that guy." (John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Woodstock, more accurately entitled the Woodstock Music Festival; An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music, represents one of the most enduring symbols of the youth movement of America's late 1960s and early '70s. As the public pinnacle of that social phenomenon, the giant festival that overwhelmed a section of an upstate New York farm for a week during a time of national and international upheaval evolved from a typical speculative financial venture to a defining historical monument thanks to the legendary performances by many of the era's greatest musicians.

©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors
Americas History & Criticism Music United States
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