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August 15 marks the 48th anniversary of the festival concert by which all rock concerts will forever be measured. In August 1969, some 500,000 hardy souls appeared at Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel ...
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, and the coverage has been mixed. First of all, a proposed 2019 live concert crashed and burned before liftoff. Second, several essay… ...
SILVERADO They arrived at Irvine Lake Saturday in Volkswagen buses, wearing tie-dyed shirts and waving peace signs in the air.Hundreds of self-proclaimed hippies, flower children and others danced … ...
PLAYBACK: Mark Beaumont asks if the legendary hippie music festival was really a ‘blueprint for a new society’ or as ‘shambolic, profit-driven and violence-marred’ as the attempt to do it ...
Woodstock was all about hippies going up the country, getting back to the garden, leaving the dirty cities behind to commune with nature. That is an entirely Seventies concept.
The more politically active among the hippies despised Scouting as a crypto-imperialist cause. Change came upon us all; neither the Woodstock Nation nor the Scouts are what they used to be.
Did Woodstock hippies lead to US financial collapse? A conservative activist says hippies-turned-boomers are responsible for excessive spending, the mortgage crisis, and recklessness on Wall Street.
August marked a modern hippified love fest with the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. As for the celebration of bell bottoms, peace pendants and tie-dye? Not so much. Boulder fashion gurus say the deluge ...
Marcellino, who was still a 19-year-old college student when he played Woodstock, tells Yahoo Entertainment that Sha Na Na’s career-launching moment almost didn’t happen at all.
In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...