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Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock (Hardcover)

By: Pete Fornatale (Author)

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"[F]resh insights from the artists make it an important read."

"Michael Lang [THE ROAD TO WOODSTOCK]...and [Pete] Fornatale...have each written a book about the festival...Fornatale focuses a little more on the music, with back stories about many of the bands and analysis of who stopped the show...and who underachieved....Lang...has much more detail about how the whole production was put together and kept running. He is the more authoritative author; although Fornatale's writing is a bit livelier."

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An award-winning broadcaster's authoritative fortieth anniversary tribute to the first Woodstock event draws on original interviews with such performers as Roger Daltry, Joan Baez, and David Crosby to place the gathering against a backdrop of period history and culture.

On the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock, renowned New York City disc jockey Pete Fornatale brings the iconic rock concert to vivid life through original interviews with Roger Daltrey, Joan Baez, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, and dozens of headliners, organizers, and fans.

On Friday, August 15, 1969, a crowd of 400,000 -- an unprecedented and unexpected number at the time -- gathered on Max Yasgur's farm in upstate New York for a weekend of rock 'n' roll, the new form of American music that had emerged only a decade earlier. For America's counterculture youth, Woodstock became a symbol of more than just sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- it was about peace, love, and a new way of living. It was a seminal event that epitomized the ways that the culture, the country, and the core values of an entire generation were shifting. On one glorious weekend, this generation found its voice through one outlet: music.

"Back to the Garden" celebrates the music and the spirit of Woodstock through the words of some of the era's biggest musical stars, as well as those who participated in the festival. From Richie Havens's legendary opening act to the Who's violent performance, from the Grateful Dead's jam to Jefferson Airplane's wake-up call, culminating in Jimi Hendrix's career-defining moment, Fornatale brings new stories to light and sets the record straight on some common misperceptions. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, authoritative, and highly entertaining, "Back to the Garden" is the soon-to-be classic telling of three days of peace and music.

Annotation

Veteran New York DJ Pete Fornatale brings readers inside the original rock-music festival, Woodstock 1969, with BACK TO THE GARDEN. Fornatale lets the words of participants--performers and those hanging out in the grass--speak for themselves, and so his book offers unique perspectives on some of the most exciting moments in the three-day festival--Richie Havens's performance that kicked things off, Jefferson Airplane's early-morning set, Jimi Hendrix's headlining show-stopper. Black-and-white illustrations enhance the text.

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