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| Michael Lang, Woodstock Festival Co-Creator, Dies at 77 A co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, Michael Lang has died. | Jan. 9, 2022, at 11:43 a.m.  Woodstock co-producer and co-founder, Michael Lang, participates in the Woodstock 50 lineup announcement at Electric Lady Studios, March 19, 2019, in New York. The co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, Michael Lang has died. A spokesperson for Lang's family says the 77-year-old had been battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma and passed away Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022 in a New York City hospital.  Most people know the big artists that played Woodstock — Santana, CCR, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix to name a few — but 34 acts were on the bill. The Friday lineup included Richie Havens, Swami Satchidananda, Sweetwater, Bert Sommer, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shankar, Melanie Safka, Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez.   |
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| Wow. That stinks! RIP. | ||
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| RIP. I was very young at the time but, OMG, what a historical time in music history! |
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| Rest In Peace Michael Lang. | ||
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| I was too young to appreciate the era I grew up in. My loss. RIP, Michael Lang. | ||
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| Inspired by Woodstock, other music festivals followed. Bull Island - near universally regarded as the worst music festival of all time - was originally planned for my hometown of Evansville, Indiana in 1972. There was NO WAY local politicians in Evansville or surrounding counties were going to allow 60,000 hippies in for three days. So the promoters were bounced around from one location to another, finally landing in swampy islands under the jurisdiction of Illinois but only accessible through Indiana. It was a disaster. The crowd size swelled to 200,000. Not near enough toilers or food vendors. "Easier to buy drugs than food and water" was the common theme. Acts cancelled. It rained - a lot. On the final day the crowd set fire to the stage.... I wanted to go but just a senior in High School my parents said "oh hell no!" and that was it. RIP Michael Lang. You planned an event that was transformative for an entire generation. |
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