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From Burning Man to Woodstock to Fyre Festival: what turns a festival into a disaster?

This year’s Burning Man Festival in Nevada has been washed out and 70,000 attendees are stuck in the mud. Summer rains have hit its desert location and, as we regularly find in the Australian Outback, when fine and dusty desert soils get wet, they are like glue. Transport becomes near…

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Woodstock Festival: 50 mind-blowing facts about the original celebration of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

The Woodstock Festival became part of rock'n'roll folklore as half a million hippies descended on a farm in upstate New York in 1969

Louder

"There definitely will be an end, but I don’t see it any time right now." Rumours of Sevendust's demise have been greatly exaggerated:

Sevendust frontman Lajon Witherspoon answers questions on zombies, Woodstock 99, Beyoncé and why he's proud to be nu metal

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Remember the time The Simpsons took a hilarious potshot at Woodstock 99?

By 2000, the Simpsons was running out of steam, but this gag - featuring a Limp Bizkit banger - was on-point

Metal Hammer

Boho Fashion: Why This Free-Spirited Trend Keeps Coming Back

Year after year, this style just doesn't quit.

Marie Claire

Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen - Album Of The Week Club review

The live album of Joe Cocker and Leon Russell's shambolic, chaotic, sex-fuelled, Mad Dogs & Englishmen rock’n’roll circus

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Q&A: Carlos Santana: 'My guitar is my best lover, ever'

“Take no prisoners — peacefully,” Carlos Santana sometimes tells his bandmates before taking the stage

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Carlos Santana: 'My guitar is my best lover, ever'

“Take no prisoners — peacefully,” Carlos Santana sometimes tells his bandmates before taking the stage

The Independent UK

Graham Nash: “The acoustic guitar touches the heart faster. It’s much more human and personal than electric guitar”

As the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young legend releases the “most personal record” of his half-century career, he tells us about speaking truth to power, selling his Woodstock Martin D-45, and making up with David Crosby

Guitar World

The Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox remembers Woodstock

Billy Cox: “If you listen to The Star Spangled Banner you hear me playing the first five or six notes. Then I immediately stepped back”

Guitar World

Stephen Stills: ‘Part of me misses David Crosby dreadfully. Part of me thinks he got out of here just in time’

The 78-year-old folk rock icon talks to Kevin E G Perry about Woodstock and the Sixties, the death of David Crosby and his new live album from 1971

The Independent UK

In 1957, Little Richard saw a shooting star and returned to church. In 1969, his rock and roll comeback brought him to the Atlantic City Pop Festival

PHILADELPHIA — In the summer of 1969, Little Richard headlined at the Atlantic City Pop Festival, which featured many acts that would play Woodstock two weeks later.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Every guitarist should hear this isolated guitar track of Jimi Hendrix performing Voodoo Child live at Woodstock

A guitar recording from the most famous gig of Hendrix’s career can now be experienced unobscured

Guitar World

Violence, riots and vandalism - The real life Woodstock '99 that happened right here in Yorkshire

Woodstock'99 is often considered 'the day that music died'

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Woodstock '99: 10 lessons learned from the 'Trainwreck'

It was supposed to be a celebration of peace, love and music, but what they got was feces, anger and fire.

The Independent UK

Woodstock ’99: The disturbing true story behind the disastrous music festival

Violence, sexual assault, looting and poor sanitation plagued the 1999 edition of the event

The Independent UK

Netflix viewers in ‘shock’ after watching ‘insane’ docuseries about Woodstock ’99 festival

Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 looks at the chaos of the US musical festival which featured Korn, Limp Bizkit and Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Guardian - UK

Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 review – the festival documentary that doubles as a disaster movie

This tense, brisk watch inspires a sense of dread as it lays bare the rape, riots and arson that destroyed a 1999 festival. Sadly, the deeper questions about what caused them go untackled

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The Sandman to Beavis and Butt-Head: the seven best shows to stream this week

Neil Gaiman’s dark fantasy fable comes to life, and Mike Judge’s sniggering miscreants are back after a decade away. Plus, the shocking documentary Clusterf**k: Woodstock 99

Tribune News Service

Jerry Zezima: Music to my years

When I think of the legendary concerts in music history — the Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York City; Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other rock giants at Woodstock; me as the guest triangle player for the Stamford Symphony Orchestra — the one I remember as the greatest was…

The Conversation

Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits expose the darker side of the 60s

“If you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there”. This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of Woodstock and Beatlemania may be etched into cultural memory, but Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits reveal a darker side to the swinging 60s that turns…

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