40 years ago, more specifically from August 15 to August 18, in 1969, it was held at a farm near the town of Bethel, New York, a music festival which put together almost 500 million of students, artists, workers and people - very high on LSD - celebrating love, peace and music. In spite of it, just 200 were arrested and only 2 of them died.At first, tickets were sold for US$ 18, around 186,000 people bought it. But on the day of the event, fences were destroyed and it became a free festival.
Under rain and mud, the crowd watched concerts of artist such as Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Santana, Sly & the Family Stone and The Who. Many bands are no longer on the road or its members have already died, but they surely wrote their names in the history of the music.
Photographed by chance, the couple above became worldwide famous. 40 years later, asked to summarize the festival Nick says, “The main message of Woodstock was: Look, we are young, and this is what we do. We get together and become stronger to protest against what was happening at that moment, and also enjoy and have fun. We help each other, and after we went away in peace".One of the shows at Woodstock:
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