Tag: woodstock
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Summer Jam of 1973 was biggest-ever concert in US
All the 150,000 tickets were sold quickly and people in thousands showed up at Summer Jam 47 years ago today TORONTO: Considered fools for having actually purchased $10 tickets to the Summer Jam concert on July 28, 1973, three of us landed at Watkins Glen in upstate New York from nearby Ithaca a day earlier…
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Woodstock memories: When Indian Swami Satchidananda was flown in to open it
My Woodstock memories include Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Alla Rakha delivering nirvana and The Band from Canada unleashing their iconic song `The Weight’ as over 500,000 people gathered at the history-making concert This year is the 50th anniversary of the counter culture movement’s globally renowned concert simply known as Woodstock! Just say Woodstock to…