IT CHANGED OUR LIVES
Jul 01, 2019
4 minutes
BY TROY BROWNFIELD
Hendrix playing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The other version of “The Fish Cheer.” Joe Cocker’s cover of “A Little Help from My Friends.” These represent but three of the multitude of scenes that Woodstock imprinted on the American consciousness. Billed as three days of peace and music, the 1969 festival became a defining moment for rock music, counterculture, and documentary filmmaking. But how did it become such a flashpoint, and why does Woodstock still reverberate through American culture?
It all started with the Sound — Media Sound, that is — which was a recording studio project in Manhattan being
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