Woodstock was a music festival held 50 years ago between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm 43 miles southwest of Woodstock, New York. Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history and provided an exclamation mark to the 60's - a decade of turmoil, the vietnam war, assassinations of major leaders, protests, civil rights legislation-marches-riots, drugs and change on so many fronts that the world would never be the same again ...!!!!
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