
Woodstock may have turned out to be just a mere music festival, but it turned into a signal moment in pop culture only by accident. Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong that August weekend in 1969, did. But the music was great and the crowd- which swelled to an astounding 400,000 to 500,000 people - was even better. Originally the festival was to be a moneymaking deal - however we all know what happened when it became a "free" event as the fences fell. You can see how promoters figured they'd make a fortune, when you [...]