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The story of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair begins with Michael Lang, a kid out of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, who liked to smoke a joint and listen to jazz. He would find his way to Florida, open a head shop, and produce his first festival - Miami Pop, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and others - then travel to Woodstock, where, after meeting Artie Kornfeld, his vision for a festival where folks could come and stay for a few days amid the rural beauty of upstate New York would become a reality.

Featuring a foreword from legendary director Martin Scorcese, Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections combines stories, anecdotes, and perspectives from dozens of musicians and filmmakers about the making of the Academy Award-winning documentary Woodstock. Assembled by associate producer Dale Bell, the oral history takes listeners behind the scenes - and behind the camera - at the decade-defining event.

When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country". They headed for Woodstock - not to the site of the infamous music festival of 1969 but to the Catskills, to Bearsville, to Woodstock proper. Counterculture revolutionaries like Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, and Paul Butterfield got "back to the land", turning the once sleepy hollow into a funky Shangri-La.

As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed 9,000 protests and 84 acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was approaching 50,000, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society.

This is the extraordinary, behind-the-scenes tale of how Woodstock went from a pipe dream to the most iconic rock concert of all time. Elliot Tiber, then known as Eliyahu Teichberg, was a budding painter in the 1960s. He also happened to be head of his local chamber of commerce - and owner of the yearly permit to hold summer music concerts. The rest, as they say, is history.

Pauly Johnson is a successful surgeon at a Melbourne hospital with a beautiful wife, a loving family - and a memory he wishes he could erase. One night, he takes a drive on a lonely road above a steep drop, determined to end it all, but before he can put his plan into action, a woman steps out of the darkness and into the path of his car. In an instant, her life is ended and his is saved. Shattered by the experience, Pauly becomes obsessed with finding out who she was and why she wanted to kill herself. But he soon finds that the answers lie shockingly close to home.

Woodstock: The Oral History is the definitive, electrifying account of the rock festival that shook the world and defined a generation. It shares the adventures of a ragtag bunch of businessmen and bohemians, of hippies, hucksters, handymen, and hangers-on, working against all odds to unite a generation for one wild, glorious weekend in August 1969.

As the decade comes to an end, the AM dial is filled with hits from almost every musical genre imaginable and that variety is captured by Billboard’s ranking of the Year End Hot 100 Singles Of 1969 that had ‘Sugar, Sugar’ by the cartoon band, The Archies, at #1. After that, and in order, we see ‘Aquarius’/‘Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)’ by The 5th Dimension, ‘I Can’t Get Next To You’ by The Temptations, ‘Honky Tonk Women’ by The Rolling Stones, ‘Everyday People’ by Sly & The Family Stone, ‘Dizzy’ by Tommy Roe, ‘Hot Fun In The Summertime’ by Sly...

For many, the name Jimi Hendrix conjures up a larger-than-life image of the man who set fire to guitars, women's hearts, and the status quo. In this groundbreaking account, music journalist Charles R. Cross takes a far deeper look. Beyond Hendrix's legendary onstage and offstage magnetism, and his excessive lifestyle, was a man who struggled to accept his role as an idol and privately craved the kind of normal family life he never had.

Tossed into a social, political and culture firestorm that epitomized the 1960s, five friends from very different backgrounds form a strong bond at a small Vermont College in the fall of 1966. Mark Dennett is from Boston and aspires to be a great writer. Devon Wilson is from the tougher section of Newark, NJ and is smart and tough-minded. Gerard Ozman (“Oz”) is a gifted athlete who misses the sand and surf of California. Stevie Polkowski from the Chicago-area is timid, insecure, and overwhelmed. Jenny Porter is a small town girl from Vermont. Over the course of four years of college, ...

Brooklyn Owes the Charmer Under Me tells the story of a decrepit hotel, now defunct, called the Resplendent, in what was then called the Borscht Belt in upstate New York's Sullivan County and of the small army of menial workers made up of drifters, derelicts and students called "bimmies," who infested it in the summer of the first Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. "Cullen Ramakrishna Herskovits has written a mean and vicious, sexed-up Catch 22 set in a Twilight Zone where Last Exit to Brooklyn meets the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and a Catcher in the Rye with a juvenile delinquent Holden ...

Some events that transform a nation are frozen in time. Others pass with little public awareness and we only appreciate their momentous nature long after they occurred. Regardless, these events are few and - almost always - far between. But 50 years ago, in 1969, four such events took place within the span of only 100 days. In this book, cultural historian Harlan Lebo looks back at the first Moon landing, the Manson family murders, Woodstock, and the birth of the Internet to tell the story of how each event shaped the nation and how we perceive ourselves.

Carlos Santana’s guitar has carried the sound of Latin rock from the streets of Autlán and the smoky cantinas of Tijuana to the world’s biggest stages. Carlos Santana is the definitive biography of one of music’s most distinctive and enduring voices. Written in the style of a seasoned music historian, it traces Santana’s journey from his violin-playing childhood in Mexico to his teenage apprenticeship in border clubs, his arrival in San Francisco’s Mission District, and the explosive fusion of blues, rock, and Afro-Cuban rhythm that defined the Santana Blues Band. The book ...

A BBC journalist sets off to make the programme he hopes will uncover the truth behind his father's life. As the interviews are recorded and each layer is peeled away, the story becomes more complex than he could ever have imagined. At each step, he moves closer to meeting the recluse of the title and setting off a chain of events that will have his life spiraling out of control. "A charming and delightfully well-written novel tells the tale of extreme artistry and romance in the drug-fueled turbulent style of the late sixties rock scene. A tale for the ages, wonderfully wrought." Amazon ...

Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.

Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities: smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough.

Fred Durst’s journey from Jacksonville tattoo shops and mixtapes to global festival stages is one of the most improbable and explosive sagas in modern music. Break Stuff, Build Brand offers the definitive chronicle of how Limp Bizkit transformed raw provocation into a meticulously engineered spectacle that conquered MTV, ignited controversy, and endured through streaming-era reinvention. Written with the authority of a cultural historian and the immediacy of backstage access, the book traces every chapter of Limp Bizkit’s career: the raw abrasion of Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$, the ...

The famed Catskills guidebook now in its expanded 5th edition with new attractions like the Catskills Visitor's Center with its adjacent Fire Tower and a section on the I-88 Corridor which includes Cooperstown, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Farmers Museum, the Iroquois Museum and Howe Caverns joining traditional sites like North Lake, Kaaterskill Falls, Hunter Mountain, Phoenicia, Woodstock, Overlook Mountain, the Esopus Creek, Belleayre Mountain, Margaretville. John Burroughs' Woodchuck Lodge, Slide Mountain, and historic Kingston and so much more in America's first vacationland. ...

Stay Thirsty Publishing Proudly Presents Forty Years Later. An Amazon #1 Best Seller with over 55,000 eBooks downloaded from veteran author Steven Jay Griffel. A compelling story of second chances in life and love. Successful middle-aged publishing executive David Grossman risks everything to fulfill a promise to a woman he has not seen in forty years. When former teen sweethearts David and Jill reunite after four decades, sparks fly, despite his long marriage to Allison and Jill’s LGBT reputation. Jill Black, a “one-hit wonder” Hollywood screenwriter, is consumed by her last chance ...

The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail. By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of willful murder, sexual assault and rape. But as the obvious leads fade into twilight and darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key....