Tag: Woodstock

‘It Was One Problem After Another’: How Woodstock 50 Fell Apart

Woodstock 50 had nearly every resource a festival could ask for: storied brand name, massive financial backing and industry goodwill. Where did it all go wrong?

Hear Untold Stories From the Original Woodstock

Rolling Stone Music Now podcast looks back at the original Woodstock with Country Joe McDonald and Santana's Michael Carabello

Joan Baez Looks Back at Woodstock: ‘It Was the Eye of the Hurricane’

In this unpublished interview from 2009, Baez remembers traveling to the festival on a helicopter with Janis Joplin and avoiding all the food backstage for fear it had been laced with LSD

Graham Nash on Woodstock: ‘It Was Both Primeval and Futuristic’

It was only CSNY's second gig, and they were playing to a crowd of 400,000

Woodstock Remembered: Baron Wolman on Photographing the Legendary Fest

50 years later, Rolling Stone's first chief photographer discusses festival highlights, escaping the mud and playing the cowbell

Woodstock Remembered: Robbie Robertson on Feeling ‘Proud’ to Be Part of the Legendary Fest

The Band thought the whole idea of the Woodstock festival was exciting because of what it […]

Woodstock Remembered: Bob Weir on Why the Fest Mattered to the Grateful Dead

"The significance for me was that the new music that was evolving during the previous years had come of age there," founding member of Grateful Dead says

Woodstock Remembered: Richie Havens on Opening the Fest of ‘People Just Being People’

"It was the first expression of the first global-minded generation born on the planet," singer-songwriter recalled

Woodstock Remembered: ‘It Was Magical!’ Says Singer-Songwriter Melanie

"For a year afterward, every time I sang 'Candles in the Rain,' the song I wrote about Woodstock, people would start lighting candles"

Woodstock ’69: Photos