The Woodstock Music & Art Fair – as it was formally known – was held in the New York suburb in August 1969 and became an iconic symbol of the era’s hippy movement; a free event (in the end) which epitomised the spirit and mind-set of the earliest music festivals.
It has since returned for ‘sequels’ in 1994 and 1999, and organiser Michael Lang is already on the look-out for a suitable location which could be used to celebrate Woodstock’s Golden anniversary in five years’ time. “I think we’re certainly done until the 50th,” he told Rolling Stone. “We’re starting to think about it now.”
While Woodstock led the counter-culture charge, around a year later the 1970 Isle Of Wight festival was already signalling the end of that dream. You can read Live4ever’s feature on the event by visiting this link.