Michael Lang, the Face of Woodstock, Dies at Age 77

Michael Lang, the producer who co-founded “The Woodstock Nation,” as activist Abbie Hoffman called it, died late Saturday of a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, according to reports. The 1969 concert on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, officially called “Woodstock Music & Art Fair’s Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music,” was celebrated not only for its collection of killer electric guitar solos but, through rose-colored glasses, symbolizing the achievability of the hippie counterculture’s utopian dreams. Lang was 77 years old. The young concert promoter was only 24 in August 1969 when he became, essentially, the “face… Read Full Article