Research Paper On Woodstock The Icon Of The 60's

Woodstock: The icon of the 60’s The 60’s encompassed new styles of music, marches for peace, unforgettable fashion statements, civil rights rallies, drugs being experimented with, and Woodstock, the most famous rock festival during the 60’s. Woodstock is known for its three days of peace and music, even though it led into a fourth. Woodstock started as a single idea from the minds of four young men, but today is known as an icon of the 1960s. (Rosenberg, n.d.) I think Woodstock captures the essence of the 60’s because of the people’s love of rock-n-roll, their hatred of war, and the love that was spread throughout the estimated 500,000 people in attendance. John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang were the four organizers

There were approximately 50,000 in attendance on Wednesday, August 13, two days before the festival was to begin. The early arrivers had waltzed right through the huge gaps in the fence that had not gotten finished. Since there was no way to get the 50,000 people to leave, and no time to erect the rest of the fence, the organizers made the concert free for all. This announcement of a free concert had two dire effects. Firstly, the organizers were going to lose a large amount of money that could’ve went towards the making of the recording studio. The second effect was that the news spread quickly about the free concert and an estimated one million people began heading to Max Yasgurs farm. None of the organizers planned for nearly half a million people to arrive. The highways nearby became parking lots because people got tired of waiting in the traffic. The people abandoned their cars and walked the rest of the way. The four young men had to hire people to shuttle the performers by helicopter from their hotels to the

An article on ultimateclassicrock.com names the top ten performances in order. The 10th performance was a song called “Volunteers” by Jefferson Airplane. They went on stage at 8am on Sunday. They performed a 100-minute set! The 9th top performance was a song titled ‘The “Fish” Cheer’ by a band named Country Joe and the Fish. They weren’t very good according to the article, but their song was basically an anti-war song so it fired up the crowd. The 8th top song was called “Going up the Country” by a group called Canned Heat. Their style is a mixture of the blues and rock. The 7th best performance was titled “My Generation” by The Who. The 6th top performance was a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and it was titled “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”. Now we’re on to the top 5! Number 5 is a song called “I Want to Take You Higher” by Sly and the Family Stone. According to the article, Sly and the Family Stone were already famous unlike some other performers. The 4th song on the top 10 list is titled “With a Little Help from My Friends” by Joe