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By the Time We Got To Wallkill…
It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it… but then again the people who went to Woodstock never actually got to the iconic town either, they went to Bethel… When the idea of a rock festival was first...
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A Masterpiece
From the opening chords of ‘Overture’ you know you are in for something different. But try imagining what it was like to hear this for the very first time in the last week of May 1969 when The Who...
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By The Time We Get To Woodstock 2019
The famous Woodstock Music & Art Festival of August 1969 will celebrate its 45th anniversary this summer. There are no plans to mark that occasion, but Michael Lang, the co-creator of the original...
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FESTIVALS
Thanks to the wonder of modern TV’s talking heads, and too much distilled history, there are some people that think that Woodstock was the first music festival. When it’s pointed out that there was the...
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Blind Owl’s Blues
Born on the 4th of July, two years after America entered World War 2, Alan Christie Wilson died a little over 27 years later having become famous as Blind Owl Wilson, the co founder, and principal...
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San Francisco, January 1967, the Place to Be-In
For some 1967’s Summer of Love had its origins on a mid-January day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park; for others gathered at the Polo Fields this was the last day of the true hippies. But there’s no...
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Mad Dogs & Joe Cocker Go Out To The Movies
The anniversary is especially piquant after the sad death of Joe Cocker recently, but it’s also a chance to remember him at the peak of his powers. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’...
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One Night In Leeds With The Who
Rock history took place on a university campus on this day 45 years ago. It may have been Valentine’s Day, but that was of little consequence when one of the UK’s greatest-ever rock bands took to the...
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Remembering The Great Ravi Shankar
As so often, George Harrison put it most profoundly. “The first person who ever impressed me in my life was Ravi Shankar, and he was the only person who didn’t try to impress me.” The master Indian...
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You’ve Never Heard of Keef Hartley?
Back in 1969 there were a number of bands that played Woodstock more by luck than their stature on the international stage. The Keef Hartley Band was one of them. The Buddy Rich inspired Keith Hartley,...
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How Tommy Very Nearly Wasn’t A Wizard
‘Pinball Wizard’ is one of those very special songs, one that is a great rock song, but at the same time a classic pop song, and yet it was not as big a hit as perhaps we all remember, such is its...
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FESTIVALS
Thanks to the wonder of modern TV’s talking heads, and too much distilled history, there are some people that think that Woodstock was the first music festival. When it’s pointed out that there was the...
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The Zombies Interview At Ramblin’ Man Fair 2016
Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone from The Zombies talk about Woodstock, Gene Simmons, the 50th anniversary of 'Odessey and Oracle' + more at Ramblin' Man Fair 2016. To win a special uDiscover board...
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By The Time We Didn’t Get To Woodstock
1969 was THE year of the festivals. Across North America and Britain there seemed to be one taking place somewhere almost every weekend during the summer. The two earliest festivals in the summer of...
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Woodstock and the Making of Ten Years After
A year to the day after Alvin Lee, Ten Years After’s brilliant guitarist passed away we take a look at their career and how one gig really can make a difference. Before their appearance at Woodstock,...
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By the Time We Got To Wallkill…
It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it… but then again the people who went to Woodstock never actually got to the iconic town either, they went to Bethel… When the idea of a rock festival was first...
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By The Time We Get To Woodstock 2019
The famous Woodstock Music & Art Festival of August 1969 will celebrate its 45th anniversary this summer. There are no plans to mark that occasion, but Michael Lang, the co-creator of the original...
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From Newport to Woodstock: The Real History of Music Festivals
Thanks to the wonder of modern TV’s talking heads, and too much distilled history, there are some people that think that Woodstock was the first music festival. When it’s pointed out that there was the...
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The Zombies Interview At Ramblin’ Man Fair 2016
Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone from The Zombies talk about Woodstock, Gene Simmons, the 50th anniversary of ‘Odessey and Oracle’ + more at Ramblin’ Man Fair 2016. Watch all the interviews from this...
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How We Got To Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music
It was far from the first rock festival and as we know now a long way from the last, certainly not the biggest, and yet every Festival organiser ever since has secretly wanted to emulate the success of...
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