Tag: WOODSTOCK

Were The Beatles asked to play Woodstock Festival?

Let’s imagine it together: The Beatles did their rooftop concert. The challenging Get Back sessions ended with that iconic moment, marking a strange point where the band simultaneously knew they were breaking up but also seemed somehow reinvigorated by the process. Now imagine a world where they had another booking to be working towards, another […]

How turning down Woodstock was the move that made Led Zeppelin

As the sun perched its rays in a sequined sea of muddy puddles spotted around a field in Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix became the Jesus Christ of counterculture in front of 500,000—quite literally, in the eyes of one reveller. Stoned out of his mind on acid, one humble attendee genuinely thought that Hendrix had transubstantiated into […]