August 15th to August 18th, 1969: three days of peace, love and Rock & Roll! The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held at Max Yasgur's farm, a 600 acre dairy farm in the Catskills, near New York.

500,000 people attended this memorable event in the outdoors, in sometimes rainy weather, and thirty-two acts performed.

Creedence Clearwater Revival had a 3:00 am start time at Woodstock. This is what John Fogerty had to say about his experience: “We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn... there were a half a million people asleep. These people were out. It was sort of like a painting of a Dante scene, just bodies from hell, all intertwined and asleep, covered with mud. And this is the moment I will never forget as long as I live: A quarter mile away in the darkness, on the other edge of this bowl, there was some guy flicking his Bic, and in the night I hear, “Don't worry about it John. We're with you.” I played the rest of the show for that guy.”

During the festival, there were two recorded deaths: one from an apparent heroin overdose and the other was from a tractor running over a concert-goer sleeping in a nearby field. There were two recorded births: one in a car stuck in traffic on the way to the festival and the other in a hospital after an air-evacuation. There were also four miscarriages and many, many headaches.

Performing artists included: Richie Havens, Swami Satchidananda, Sweetwater, Bert Sommer, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shankar, Melanie Safka, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Quill, Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, Keef Hartley Band, Santana, The Incredible String Band, Canned Heat, Mountain, Greatful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, Ten Years After, The Band, Johnny Winter, Blood Sweat and Tears, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sha-na-na and Jimi Hendrix.