Woodstock Wows Us
(August 15-18, 1969)It may not have been a disaster (unless you consider the bad acid dropped by some), but it was undeniably dramatic. The three-day music festival in upstate New York, named by Rolling Stone one of the 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll, featured 32 iconic musicians who performed on Max Yagur's 600-acre dairy farm for 500,000 people. Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Who, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix -- they were all there, turning the 1969 summer of love into a cultural touchstone.
