Woodstock
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Letters: Readers on the tendency of people to grow more rightwing as they age
09, Jan, 2023 @4:55 PM
Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 review – the festival documentary that doubles as a disaster movie
This tense, brisk watch inspires a sense of dread as it lays bare the rape, riots and arson that destroyed a 1999 festival. Sadly, the deeper questions about what caused them go untackled
Rebecca Nicholson
03, Aug, 2022 @12:01 PM
Break stuff! How Limp Bizkit, rioting fans and a huge candle handout led to a music festival fiasco
Woodstock 99 was meant to channel the peace and love vibes of its 1969 original – until it became a violent, drug-fuelled pit of arson. Luckily, there were plenty of camera crews there …
Stuart Heritage
01, Aug, 2022 @11:00 AM
Michael Lang obituary
Concert promoter and music manager who helped to create the great monument to 1960s counterculture – Woodstock
Adam Sweeting
10, Jan, 2022 @7:47 PM
Climate action can’t be endlessly put off | Brief letters
Brief letters: Climate cliff edge | Canned Heat | Unwashed hair | Sweetpeas | Eider ducks
Letters
10, Nov, 2021 @5:20 PM
J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr's teenage obsessions: 'When I turned 13, I felt I had to drop out of society'
As he prepares to release Dinosaur Jr’s 12th studio album, the slacker icon discusses his conflicted attitude towards hippies and his unlikely affection for Harold and Maude and All My Children
As told to Dave Simpson
25, Mar, 2021 @3:00 PM
Leslie West obituary
Founder of US band Mountain whose guitar sound proved to be a great influence on heavy metal
Adam Sweeting
27, Dec, 2020 @5:10 PM
Baron Wolman obituary
Rolling Stone photographer who captured classic images of the most influential musicians of the 1960s and 70s
Adam Sweeting
17, Nov, 2020 @6:44 PM
'In many ways, it was a miracle': looking back at Woodstock at 50
The influential, star-packed 1969 festival is remembered by those who organised, photographed and performed
Rob LeDonne
17, Aug, 2019 @5:00 AM
TV tonight: a strangely straight look at the 1969 hippy pilgrimage to Woodstock
The fun and music goes backstage in favour of logistics and statistics in this feature-length documentary. Plus Nish Kumar seeks the hottest tickets at the Edinburgh festival. Here’s the evening’s best TV
Mike Bradley, Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue and Paul Howlett
16, Aug, 2019 @5:19 AM
'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs
It was a blueprint for Live Aid and every mega-festival since. We survey a new archive box set – in full – to uncover the real story of these ‘three days of peace and music’
Bob Stanley
15, Aug, 2019 @11:29 AM
Woodstock at 50: separate events struggle to maintain the original festival's spirit ... and site
Two concerts, two miles apart offer visitors a dilemma that has endured since the sixties: establishment or anti-establishment?
Edward Helmore
15, Aug, 2019 @11:16 AM
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