Remembering Woodstock, 40 years later
Folk crooner Richie Havens, relatively unknown at the time, opened the show with, among others, "Strawberry Fields Forever," "I Can't Make It Anymore," and "Freedom." Havens stood in for planned openers Sweetwater, who were stuck in traffic en route.
Here's a shot of the folk legend in Paris in 2008.
- Special Section Looking back on the 1969 festival
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- Book Reviews 'The Road to Woodstock' and 'Back to the Garden'
(SOURCES: "Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969," "The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Rock," and "Woodstock: Three Days that Rocked the World.")