Richie Havens performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in May 2010Photograph: Leon Morris/RedfernsHavens on stage at Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in 1969Photograph: Ralph Ackerman/Getty ImagesFrom 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 1975Photograph: AP
Havens on stage during the night of the New York blackout in 1977Photograph: Richard E Aaron/RedfernsHavens talks to the audience on the second of three days of a music festival in Bethel, New York in 1998Photograph: Joe Traver/ReutersHavens in Paris in 2008Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty ImagesHavens congratulates Steven Spielberg, the Liberty Medal recipient in 2009, at the Constitution Centre in PhiladelphiaPhotograph: Laurence Kesterson/Associated PressHavens reprises his song Freedom at a concert at the Bethel Woods Centre in 2009Photograph: Stephen Chernin/Associated PressA portrait of Havens who has died of a heart attack aged 72 Photograph: Corbis/Neal Preston
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