Photograph by Elliot Landy/Magnum Photos Slate
On August 15 Kate Philips posted a selection of Elliot Landy's photographs from Woodstock in the Magnum Photos/Picture of the Day feature in Slate. These include images of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, The Band, Ravi Shankar, Richie Havens, The Grateful Dead, Arlo Guthrie, Creedence Clearwater Revival – and Martin Scorsese is there too.
It has been 43 years since what perhaps is the greatest rock concert of all time, as well as a timeless countercultural point of reference. Woodstock's longevity was furthermore sustained by the documentary film and the soundtrack album, which is how it reached someone like me, who wasn't even born at the time. And if I was to choose just one track, that would most certainly be Jimi Hendrix's astonishing version of the Star Spangled Banner:
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