How we made: Michael Lang and Billy Cox on Woodstock

'Jimi Hendrix was meant to play at midnight: we didn't get on until 8.30am. We shared a bottle of Blue Nun beforehand'Michael Lang, organiser I'd done a festival in Miami the year before, called Miami Pop. I was astounded by the effect of gathering a community around the music of the counterculture. When I moved to Woodstock, which was where Bob Dylan lived and was a real music/arts hub in the 60s, I saw these events called the Sound-Outs on a farm outside town. Artists playing locally would dro...

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