Woodstock 1969 on the Photos of Life Magazine

fabiano History & Photo 0 2744 2012.11.30 16:57

The most famous rock festival, Woodstock, held in August 1969 on a farm town of Bethel, NY, USA, has collected about half
a million viewers and a half thousand of them were journalists.
Two press photographer of the Life magazine John Dominis and Bill Eppridge came to the festival too, it is their the photographs we can see today.
Here they are, the end of the "hippie era" and the beginning of the sexual revolution.

1. Woodstock Music and Art Festival, Festival of Music and Art in Woodstock), a famous rock festivals.

Was 15, 16, 17 Aug., 1969 at a farm town of Befel, New York,.Visitors - about 450 thousand, of whom 1,500 journalists..

3. At the festival were made by such singers, musicians and groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Janice Joplin, Joan Baez, Jimmy Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Ravi Shankar, Carlos Santana and others..

11. Opening Remarks took Max Yasgur, owner of the farm in which the festival was held, he said: «I am a farmer, I can not speak to the audience, before such a large gathering of people like this. This is the largest crowd ever to assemble in one place. You have to come three days of fun and music. And I hope that apart from music and entertainment nothing is ... »

13. The festival known as "Woodstock" because it originally planned to hold him in the town of Woodstock in Ulster County, but the city is not suitable territory for such an event, for fear that arrive more than a million spectators.

15. The event almost broke down, but Sam Yasgur persuaded his father, Max, to allow a concert at the family-owned field, located in Sullivan County, about 40 miles southwest of Woodstock.

19. Although the show was planned for a 200,000 visitors arrived more than 500,000, most of them without tickets.

21.A highway in the direction of the concert was overcrowded.

23. People abandoned their cars and go walking several miles to get to the show.