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The Road to Woodstock
by Michael Lang
The festival's co-founder shares insider details on Woodstock.
It’s the tale of a generation: the pot-smoking, jazz-listening kid from Brooklyn, the head-shop proprietor in Miami, and the long-haired hippie haggling with dairy farmers in upstate New York. These are all iterations of Michael Lang, co-founder of the Woodstock music festival. In his upcoming book, The Road to Woodstock, Lang recalls the suitably nonlinear path he forged across the country, meeting musical and artistic visionaries along the way, that culminated with a cultural explosion that would resonate for decades to come. The book is filled with factoids that would leave the most devoted folkies and moptops surprised—for instance, Lang invited John Lennon to play the festival but not Bob Dylan (Lang’s favorite set was that of Sly & the Family Stone). Nowadays, Lang is producing films and plays, though he says he’s never described himself as “career minded.”
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