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...these people,” Stills said, in reference to Crosby and Nash, with whom he formed “Crosby. Stills & Nash” in 1968. The group added Neil Young shortly thereafter, and the band found instant fame playing in front of 400,000 people at the Woodstock Music Festival in just their second live performance...
...tsunami of rock 'n' roll and social and political upheaval? I don't believe so. The decade had begun, it's true, with civil rights demonstrations and protests against the Bomb. And the Beatles' arrival came just months after the shattering event of President Kennedy's assassination. But Woodstock, the Vietnam Quagmire, the hippie phenomenon, the killings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy?all this and more was still ahead, and largely unforeseen...
They booked sessions with Michele Weiner-Davis, author of Divorce Busting and The Sex-Starved Marriage, who practices in Woodstock, Ill., outside Chicago. While many marriage therapies last months or years, Weiner-Davis says, her patients were usually out in half a dozen visits. Her technique favors action, not introspection...
...tour is, hyperbole aside, the greatest music documentary ever made. Others can praise Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz and Don’t Look Back, but Gimme Shelter is the most historically relevant, the best paced and features the best set list. It’s better than Woodstock, too—it’s its shorter, evil twin, climaxing at the murder-marred Altamont Speedway concert which many have dubbed the event that ended the Sixties. Highlights include a young, comparatively normal-looking Mick Jagger wearing a pi-emblazoned jumpsuit as he struts through...
...MLK’s 1963 March on Washington, participated in the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley and co-founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. She’s also a talented soprano, a versatile folk rock star, a six-time Grammy Award-nominee and a Woodstock performer. 8 p.m. $30.50-$38. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston...