In August 1969, an estimated 400,000 other people traveled to the little-known town of Bethel, New York, to attend Woodstock, a rock and folk competition hung on a property belonging to native farmer Max Yasgur.

Organizers to start with expected no more than 50,000 attendees, however that quantity temporarily doubled, tripled, quadrupled and so on earlier than attaining the whopping final tally. Additionally, the development was once at first marketed as “Three Days of Peace and Music,” but it surely ended up lasting 4 days.

Thirty-two acts performed over the course of the competition, with lots of them rocking out until the wee hours of the next morning. Friday night time’s headliners incorporated Richie Havens and Joan Baez; Saturday featured Janis Joplin, The Who and Jefferson Airplane; Sunday boasted Joe Cocker and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and Jimi Hendrix closed out Monday with a two-plus-hour set starting at Nine a.m.

Many artists passed on what would were the opportunity of a life-time. Simon & Garfunkel were busy recording an album, Led Zeppelin had some other show scheduled at Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey, The Doors worried Woodstock can be a “second-class repeat of Monterey Pop Festival” (in guitarist Robby Krieger’s phrases) and Joni Mitchell canceled to appear on The Dick Cavett Show.

For those who couldn’t make it out to the festival site (which is now on the National Register of Historic Places), Woodstock was memorialized in an Oscar-winning eponymous documentary and a soundtrack album. Events have also been held to commemorate the 25th, 30th and 40th anniversaries.

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Woodstock 50 had been planned to happen in Bethel, New York, in August 2019 with headliners together with The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Dead & Company, Chance the Rapper, Jay-Z and Imagine Dragons. However, it ended up being canceled in the wake of more than a few production issues.

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary, check out where one of the crucial best 1969 headliners are now.

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