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Richie Havens – a life in pictures

Richie Havens performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in May 2010
Richie Havens performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in May 2010 Photograph: Leon Morris/Redferns
Richie Havens on stage at Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in 1969
Havens on stage at Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in 1969 Photograph: Ralph Ackerman/Getty Images
Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform in the Rolling Thunder Revue
From left to right: Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform in the Rolling Thunder Revue, a tour headed by Dylan in December 1975 Photograph: AP
Richie Havens on stage during the night of the New York blackout in 1977
Havens on stage during the night of the New York blackout in 1977 Photograph: Richard E Aaron/Redferns
Richie Havens talks to the audience on the second of three days of a music
Havens talks to the audience on the second of three days of a music festival in Bethel, New York in 1998 Photograph: Joe Traver/Reuters
Richie Havens in Paris in 2008
Havens in Paris in 2008 Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
Richie Havens congratulates Steven Spielberg, the 2009 Liberty medal recipient
Havens congratulates Steven Spielberg, the Liberty Medal recipient in 2009, at the Constitution Centre in Philadelphia Photograph: Laurence Kesterson/Associated Press
Havens reprises his song Freedom at a concert at the Bethel Woods Centre in 2009
Havens reprises his song Freedom at a concert at the Bethel Woods Centre in 2009 Photograph: Stephen Chernin/Associated Press
Richie Havens
A portrait of Havens who has died of a heart attack aged 72
Photograph: Corbis/Neal Preston
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