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Today's robust festival culture owes much to Woodstock — lessons from both its incredible success and its logistical nightmares.
Can't get enough of Woodstock? There are plenty of new or remastered products out this year that give a flavor of the 40-year-old concert. Here's a sampling:
Forty years after Richie Havens sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, he still gets asked about it and he still gets requests to sing "Freedom."
Terry Loebel wasn't looking to start an advertising phenomenon when he went to his mailbox in 1967 and inspiration struck.
Fidel Castro insists Ernesto "Che" Guevara could never have been taken prisoner 40 years ago if his gun hadn't malfunctioned. But the retired Bolivian general who led the mission to capture him says the Argentine revolutionary was hardly a heroic figure in his final moments.
Warren Beatty leaned down to chat face-to-face with Kirk Douglas. Sylvester Stallone chomped on pineapple and glanced across the bar at Clint Eastwood. Angela Lansbury gawked at Jack Nicholson. Julie Andrews laughed with Billy Crystal.
For the 400,000 Blissed-Out 'Flower Children' Who Braved Three Days of Rain and Mud on Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, N.Y.
In the Hot and Sultry Small Hours of June 28, 1969, Gay Patrons at New York's Stonewall Inn Fought Back Against a Raid by Cops Who Peppered Them With Homophobic Insults and Threats; Forty Years Later, Gays and Lesbians Are Settling Down, Getting Married and Even Raising Families
40 years after Manson murders, a bid for paroleLOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The woman who stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death will be considered for parole from prison a month after the 40th anniversary of the killings that cast a shadow of fear over southern California.Susan Atkins, 61, has been denied parole i …
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