Woodstock Festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the counterculture generation.
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16 Facts About Woodstock Festival
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Music events bearing the Woodstock Festival name were planned for anniversaries, which included the tenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, thirtieth, fortieth, and fiftieth.
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Woodstock Festival offices were located in an oddly decorated floor of 47 West 57th Street in Manhattan.
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Woodstock Festival was remarkably peaceful given the number of people and the conditions involved, although there were three recorded fatalities: two drug overdoses and another caused when a tractor ran over a 17-year-old sleeping in a nearby hayfield.
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Woodstock Festival can be heard and seen in recordings of Woodstock making the stage announcements, including requests to "stay off the towers" and the warning about the "brown acid".
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Documentary film Woodstock Festival, directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited by a crew headed by Thelma Schoonmaker, was released in March 1970.
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Woodstock Festival helped to save Warner Bros at a time when the company was on the verge of going out of business.
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Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock Festival was produced in 2005 as two-disc set that includes all available footage of Hendrix's Woodstock Festival performance, in two different edits.
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Woodstock Festival was initially concerned with angering the locals, but they ended up being very welcoming and willing to help with the film.
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Woodstock Festival: Three Days That Defined a Generation is a documentary by Barak Goodman, produced in 2019 by PBS.
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The first, Woodstock Festival: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, was a 3-LP album containing a sampling of one or two songs by most of the acts who performed.
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An album titled Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock was released in August 1994, featuring only selected recordings of Jimi Hendrix at the festival.
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Also released in 2019 was Live at Woodstock Festival, an official album of all 11 songs played by Creedence Clearwater Revival, from “Born on the Bayou” to “Bad Moon Rising” and “Proud Mary.
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Unlike Bethel, the town of Woodstock Festival made several efforts to capitalize on its connection.
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Tom Constanten, who played keyboard with the Grateful Dead at Woodstock Festival, joined Jefferson Starship on stage for several numbers.
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In May 2014, Michael Lang, one of the producers and organizers of the original Woodstock Festival event, revealed plans for a possible 50th anniversary concert in 2019 and that he was exploring various locations.
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