Woodstock mastermind releases treasure trove of keepsakes for new 50th anniversary book

The notes and plans that went into creating the Woodstock festival in 1969 are to be included in a new book to mark the 50th anniversary of the event.
For the first time, the festival’s visionary Michael Lang is offering up correspondence, stage designs and even information about the artists’ fees, so that music history buffs can see what went into organising the Summer of Love celebration.
The official 50th-anniversary book on the festival will also include hundreds of photographs of the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Country Joe McDonald, and the Grateful Dead taken by photographers such as Ralph Ackerman, Elliott Landy, Baron Wolman, and Henry Diltz, whose coverage of Woodstock began two weeks before hippies and music fans descended on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York.
Lang has also organised a 50th anniversary concert at Watkins Glen in New York in August (19). Headliners include JAY-Z, The Killers and Dead & Company, while John Fogerty, Santana, John Sebastian, Country Joe McDonald, Canned Heat, and Hot Tuna, who all took part in the original 1969 festival will perform.