Michael Lang, the legendary co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, has died at 77.
Lang died on Saturday night from a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. His rep and family friend Michael Pagnotta confirmed the news toLang worked alongside partners Joel Rosenman, Capitol Records’ Artie Kornfeld and John P. Roberts for the 1969 festival held at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York.
“I booked the three hottest bands at the time — Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat and Credence Clearwater Revival,” Lang toldin 2019. “That gave us immediate credibility and the word got out and then suddenly the stone was rolling downhill. Then we started adding bands left and right. I remember when David Geffen walked into our office with a test pressing of Crosby, Stills and Nash. He put it on the turntable and made a deal right there on the spot. Same thing with Joe Cocker.
Three years before co-creating the original Woodstock in ’69, Lang had opened his first business: a head shop in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. He said it had become “the unofficial headquarters of the underground counterculture,” previously tellingthat David Crosby and Joni Mitchell would often visit. “It was becoming sort of famous — and kind of over. I decided it was time to move back to New York. I loved living in a small creative town.
Lang is survived by his wife Tamara, their sons, Harry and Laszlo, and his daughters, LariAnn, Shala and Molly.
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